 In the 13th century the peasants of Chaillot on the opposite bank had the right to graze their cattle on the île Maquerelle, in exchange for a payment in kind paid to the Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés.The right to "fermage" was 20 livres in 1492, and the "bail de l'herbe" rose to 27 livres in 1551.In 1572 1,200 victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre were buried here.