The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

THE HUGUENOT WARS. 41
March 19, by which the Huguenots were again introd.
granted the privilege of the Edict of January
with several additions.
The two armies now united to beat back the
English. As soon as that matter was settled,
and Catherine de Medici could dispense with
the aid of the Huguenots, she restricted their
privileges, and began to plot their extermination.
The secret treaty between her son,
Henry H. and Philip, King of Spain, in the
spring of 1559, and its execution thwarted by
Henry's untimely death, and which she had
never ceased to cherish, she now hoped to be
able to execute. She and the young King
spent 1564-65 in a tour through the provinces
bordering on Germany. At the close of the
tour, they were met at Bayonne by the Queen
of Spain, the eldest sister of the King, and
the Duke of Alva. There it was planned that Plot to
Charles IX. should act in concert with Philip ^^^l^'
of Spain to exterminate the Huguenots. Alva Hugueproposed
that Charles should immediately °°*^seize
the chief men of the Huguenots, and ^^
strike off their heads, but Catherine thought
the proposition prematurely unwise. In 1566,
she convened all the thirteen Parliaments of
the kingdom at Maulins, and after
affairs of state had been arranged,
all
she
the
attempted
to reconcile the aspirants to the
crown. Failing in the attempt, she became
more exasperated than ever, and ordered both
parties to quit the court, retaining however
Marshal Montgomery and Cardinal Lorraine,
who originally proposed the secret plot to exterminate
the Huguenots. At this time the
German Protestant princes were induced by
Admiral Coligny to send an embassy to
Charles IX. to entreat him to allow the Hugue-