The Fury and the Sorrow
Guise's demise sparked the mother of all civil disorder, on a scale not seen since St. Bartholomew's Day several years previously. In Paris, Huguenots were hunted down once again. At La Rochelle, Huguenots fought back and fought back hard, murdering Catholic officials and several priests. Across the south-west, dragonnaded troops were dragged from the homes of their Huguenot owners and lynched in the streets.
Henry III was struggling to maintain order at this point. The Catholic League's members were now determined to set about exterminating Protestantism in France once and for all; the Huguenots no less determined to fight for their survival.
However, the Huguenots now had a problem. Although he had been somewhat embarassed by the massacres of several years previously, Pope Gregory XIII was now well aware of Guise's murder and the casus belli that this presented. Several weeks later, he would command Henry III to do something about it- or else he would order Philip of Spain to intervene.
Guise's demise sparked the mother of all civil disorder, on a scale not seen since St. Bartholomew's Day several years previously. In Paris, Huguenots were hunted down once again. At La Rochelle, Huguenots fought back and fought back hard, murdering Catholic officials and several priests. Across the south-west, dragonnaded troops were dragged from the homes of their Huguenot owners and lynched in the streets.
Henry III was struggling to maintain order at this point. The Catholic League's members were now determined to set about exterminating Protestantism in France once and for all; the Huguenots no less determined to fight for their survival.
However, the Huguenots now had a problem. Although he had been somewhat embarassed by the massacres of several years previously, Pope Gregory XIII was now well aware of Guise's murder and the casus belli that this presented. Several weeks later, he would command Henry III to do something about it- or else he would order Philip of Spain to intervene.