The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

42 RISE AND PROGRESS OF HUGUENOTS.
introd . nots full religious liberty. The embassy and
the bold language of Coligny and Conde ir-
1567. ritated the King. In the summer of 1567, at
an Assembly of the Huguenots held at St.
Valery, they learned of the determination of
the court to arrest, and put to death if possible
Coligny and Conde, and of other severe
measures which it contemplated. The Huguenots
became alarmed and held a conference at
Chatillon in September, in which they resolved
to prepare for war in all ways, and if
possible to seize the young King and his
mother who were at Monceaux. Their coun-
sels were betrayed to Catherine, who with all
the court, fled to Paris, closely pressed by
Conde and Coligny: the Cardinal Lorraine lost
his carriage in the stampede and fled by by-
^war^ paths. Paris was now besieged. This began
1567-68. the second war of the Huguenots (iS^7~^^)-
After a siege of a month on the capital,
Conde and Montmorency clashed in a great
battle, November 10, 1567, at St. Dennis.
Two thousand seven hundred Huguenots
fought against twenty thousand royal troops.
Montmorency was mortally wounded and died
the next day. The victor};^ was drawn. The
Huguenots remained one day to care for their
dead and wounded, and then fell back into
Lorraine, where they were reinforced January
1568. 11, 1568, by 10,000 German allies under Prince
John Casimer. With his army replenished,
Conde again threatened Paris in the following
month, and the Queen Mother in her flight
Treaty of from the city, offered the treaty of Longjume^au.
jumeau, which was signed March 27, 1568, reestablishing
the terms of the Amboise treaty,
and is known as the little peace of Longjumeau.
Catherine gave no regard to this treaty, which