"In the conferences held at La Fere and at Lihom-Saintot, between the 10th and the 18th of January, 1592," says M.
Poirson, "the Duke of Parma, acting for the King of Spain, and Mayenne drew up conventions which only awaited.

the ratification of Philip II.
to be converted into a treaty.

Mayenne was to receive four millions of crowns a year and a Spanish army, which together would enable him to oppose Henry IV.

He had, besides, a promise of a large establishment for himself, his relatives, and the chiefs of his party.

In exchange, he promised, in his own name and that of the princes of his house and the great lords of the League, that Philip II.'s daughter, the Infanta Isabella (Clara Eugenia), should be recognized as sovereign and proprietress of the throne of France, and that the states-general, convoked for that purpose, should proclaim her right and confer upon her the throne.