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Biographical Sketch
(1639), with its justification of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Day.[1] Despising the masses, believing that monarchy should be absolute, and that the end justifies the means, Naudé expressed in this book detestable theories which it is hard to forgive, even if we accept his statement in the preface that the edition was limited to twelve copies, the book being printed "out of obedience, for the satisfaction of the Cardinal de Bagni, who reads with pleasure only from the printed book,"—a state-
- ↑ See Apologie pour Gabriel Naudé, by Charles Nodier (in his Mélanges tirés d'une petite Bibliothèque, Paris, 1829, chap. 24).
