The ambassador of Spain, who was further angered by Charles granting interviews to Louis of Nassau, and by his holding out hopes to the Dutch of assistance in their struggle against Alva, also left France in deep dudgeon, and with threats of war.
The result was, naturally, to cause a better state of feeling throughout France.

Persecutions everywhere ceased; and the Huguenots, for the first time for many years, were able to live in peace, and without fear of their neighbours.
The negotiations for the marriage between the Prince of Navarre and Marguerite de Valois continued.

The prince was now eighteen and a half, and the princess twenty.

The idea of a marriage between them was of old standing, for it had been proposed by Henry the Second, fifteen years before; but at the outbreak of the Huguenot troubles it had been dropped.

Marshal Biron was sent by the king with the royal proposals to the Queen of Navarre, who was now at La Rochelle.