Brewer's: Bris

Il conte di San Bris, governor of the Louvre, was father of Valentina, and leader of the St. Bartholomew massacre. (Meyerbeer's Opera: Gli Ugonotti.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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