ABSTRACT
The King of Paris addressed the King of France as a conqueror. Her son held Catherine de Medici responsible for the Lorraine insolences. Henri III had become so accustomed to his mother’s diplomatic victories that Henri de Guise’s contempt for the promises he had given her seemed in the King’s eyes a sign that the Governess of France’s time was over. He made her aware of it, and in such unveiled terms that Catherine confessed her sorrow to Bellièvre, charged to negotiate in her place at Soissons. The King believed that there could no longer be any other outcome but violence. He forbade Guise to enter Paris, a challenge that the King of Paris took up. In order to prove that he was the master of his capital and that Henri III in his Louvre no longer represented the legitimate authority he ignored his orders and on May 9, 1588, entered Paris to the delirious acclamations of its people.
