My colleagues, who are all present, except Geniston who has gone
into the country lately, salute you.
[_Lat. copy_--_Library of Basle._ Epist. Apogr., tom. xxv. p. 49.]
[489] The Jesuit Maimbourg, in his _Histoire du Calvinisme_, lib.
ii., states the number of these victims as amounting to 3600, and
carries the number of the houses pillaged and destroyed as high as
900. According to De Thou, twenty-two _bourgs_ and villages were
reduced to ashes. The whole country, which had previously presented
the aspect of a cheerful pleasure garden, was reduced to a desert
and uncultivated wilderness.