`  ::Coligny most certainly did not ``live in Paris in a fabulous mansion`` as anon above has alleged...  He was staying in a hostel temporarily at the time of the wedding festivities...   His ancestral home, where he seldom was because of military campaigns, was in Chatillon sur Loing, and the Catholic mob had already disfigured it pretty badly with vandalisms prior to this.  By the Queen Mum's favourites' party, Coligny was a very hated man.  `