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

CHAPTER XV.

1567-1568.

THE SECOND CIVIL WAR AND THE SHORT PEACE 203
Coligny's Pacific Counsels 203
Rumors of Plots to destroy the Huguenots 203
D'Andelot's Warlike Counsels prevail 204
Cardinal Lorraine to be seized and King Charles liberated 205
The Secret slowly leaks out 206
Flight of the Court to Paris 207
Cardinal Lorraine invites Alva to France 208
Conde at Saint Denis 209
The Huguenot Movement alienates the King 210
Negotiations opened 210
The Huguenot