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367.] A nephew of the Constable de Montmorency, a young man of twenty-three, who at a later period became Admiral de Coligny, was ordered to see to the execution of these protective measures, and he drew up, between 1550 and 1552, at first for his own regiment of foot, and afterwards as colonel-general of this army, rules of military discipline which remained for a long while in force.
There was war in the atmosphere.

The king and his advisers, the court and the people, had their minds almost equally full of it, some in sheer dread, and others with an eye to preparation.

The reign of Francis I.
had ended mournfully; the peace of Crespy had hurt the feelings both of royalty and of the nation; Henry, now king, had, as dauphin, felt called upon to disavow it.

It had left England in possession of Calais and Boulogne, and confirmed the dominion or ascendency of Charles V.in Germany, Italy, and Spain, on all the French frontiers.