Visiting Admiral de Coligny, who had been wounded in the hand by Tosinghi, a Florentine partisan of the Guises, two days before the massacre of 24 August. The king disliked the , of whose avarice his brother, Francis II, had said, that “they would strip the kings of France of their last shirt.” Charles was, therefore, probably sincere in his regret at the outrage committed upon the venerable Huguenot. Had Coligny been killed by the Florentine, as was intended, the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Dhttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_IX_of_France