Chapter XIV

1563-1567.

THE PEACE OF AMBOISE AND THE BAYONNE CONFERENCE 126
Charles demands Havre of the English 126
The Siege 127
How the Peace was received 128
Vexatious Delays in Normandy 129
The Norman Parliament protests and threatens 130
A Rude Rebuff 131
Commissioners to enforce the Edict 132
A Profligate Court alienated from Protestantism 132
Profanity a Test of Catholicity 134
Admiral Coligny accused of Guise's Murder 135
His Defence espoused by the Montmorencies 135
Petition of the Guises 136
The King adjourns the Decision 137
Embarrassment of Catharine 137
Charles's Majority proclaimed 138
The King and the Refractory Parisian Parliament 139
The Pope's Bull against Princely Heretics 141
Proceedings against Cardinal Chatillon 141
The Queen of Navarre cited to Rome 141
Spirited Reply of the French Council 142
Catharine seeks to seduce the Huguenot Leaders 144
Weakness of Conde 145
Recent Growth of Protestantism 146
Milhau-en-Rouergue 147
Montpellier--Bearn 148
Jeanne d'Albret's Reformation 148
Attempt to kidnap her 150
Close of the Council of Trent 152
Cardinal Lorraine's Attempt to secure the Acceptance of its
Decrees 154
His Altercation with L'Hospital 155
General Plan for suppressing Heresy 156
"Progress" of Charles and his Court 157
Calumnies against the Huguenots 159
Their Numbers 159
Catharine's New Zeal--Citadels in Protestant Towns 160
Interpretative Declarations infringing upon the Edict 160
Assaults upon Unoffending Huguenots--No Redress 162
Conde appeals to the King 163
Conciliatory Answers to Huguenot Inhabitants of Bordeaux and
Nantes 164
Protestants excluded from Judicial Posts 165
Marshal Montmorency checks the Parisian Mob 166
His Encounter with Cardinal Lorraine 166
The Conference at Bayonne 167
What were its Secret Objects? 168
No Plan of Massacre adopted 169
History of the Interview 170
Catharine and Alva 172
Catharine rejects all Plans of Violence 175
Cardinal Granvelle's Testimony 176
Festivities and Pageantry 176
Henry of Bearn an Actor 177
Roman Catholic Confraternities 179
Hints of the Future Plot of the "League" 180
The Siege of Malta and French Civilities to the Sultan 181
Constable Montmorency defends Cardinal Chatillon 182
The Court at Moulins 183
Feigned Reconciliation of the Guises and Coligny 184
L'Hospital's Measure for the Relief of the Protestants 185
Another Altercation between Cardinal Lorraine and the Chancellor 186
Progress of the Reformation at Cateau-Cambresis 187
Insults and Violence 192
Huguenot Pleasantries 192
Alarm of the Protestants 193
Attempts to murder Coligny and Porcien 194
Alva sent to the Netherlands 195
The Swiss Levy 196
Conde and Coligny remonstrate 197
Discredited Assurances of Catharine 198
"The very Name of the Edict employed to destroy the Edict itself" 199

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The Huguenot Attempts at Colonization in Florida 199
The First and Second Expeditions (1562, 1564) 199
Third Expedition (1565) 200
Massacre by Menendez 200
Indignation of the French Court 201
Sincere Remonstrances 201
Sanguinary Revenge of De Gourgues 202