Loreine

The Protestant preacher is stabbed to death by Guise in [Szene 7] in The Massacre at Paris.

H. J. Oliver thinks it could be Gabriel de Levis, Vicomte de Leran.¹ Both De furoribus Gallicis and Marguerite de Valois tell of the Huguenot Leran who, wounded at St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre, escaped to Marguerite’s bedroom and was rescued by her.² Alexandre Dumas based his novel La Reine Margot (Queen Margot) on this episode. Oliver’s assumption is contradicted by the fact that Leran was not a preacher and survived the massacre.