While this increased {224} Navarre's power and his popularity with his followers, the majority of the people rallied to the League.

In the "war of the three Henrys" as it was called, the king had more to fear from Henry of Guise than from the Huguenot.

Cooped up at the Tuileries the monarch was under so irksome a restraint that he was finally obliged to regain freedom by flight, on May 12, 1588.

The elections for the States General gave an enormous majority to the League.

In an evil hour for himself the king resorted again to that much used weapon, assassination.