very easily took fright.

Catherine undertook to manage the recoil for him.

"I care not who likes it and who doesn't," she was wont to say in such cases.

She asked the Duke of Guise for an interview, which took place, first of all at Epernay, and afterwards at Rheims.

The hard demands of the Lorrainers did not deter the queen-mother, and, on the 7th of July, 1585, a treaty was concluded at Nemours between Henry III.