On the 13th of June, in solemn session, the Parliament of Paris, sitting as a court of peers, confirmed this declaration.

Notwithstanding the Duke of Guise's co-operation in all these acts, Conde desired something of a more personal kind on his part.
[Illustration: Francis de Lorraine, Duke of Aumale and of Guise----302] On the 24th of August, at St.Germain, in presence of the king, the queen-mother, the princes, and the court, the Duke of Guise, in reply to a question from the king, protested "that he had not, and would never have desired to, put forward anything against the prince's honor, and that he had been neither the author nor the instigator of his imprisonment." "Sir," said Conde, "I consider wicked and contemptible him or them who caused it." "So I think, sir," answered Guise, "and it does not apply to me at all." Whereupon they embraced, and a report was drawn up of the ceremony, which was called their reconciliation.

Just as it was ending, Marshal Francis de Montmorency, eldest son of the constable, and far more inclined than his father was towards the cause of the Reformers, arrived with a numerous troop of friends, whom he had mustered to do honor to Conde.

The court was a little excited at this incident.

The constable declared that, having the honor to be so closely connected with the princes of Bourbon, his son would have been to blame if he had acted differently.