The preparativeses militaresde Catherine had scared Conde, that left for hostility, when trying aprisionaro king and besieging Paris. Having failed, the diffidence between queen eos Huguenotes grew. However, probably porcausa of disagreements with admiral Coligny, who had influence on the King, Catarinade Mdicis suddenly abandoned the conciliation attempts and, through deCarlos IX, it initiated a program to impel the protestants, of all the meiospossveis. This program was executed when of the Night of They are Bartolomeu, em1972. This night was conhecidapor to be the day of the marriage of Enrique of Navarrese with Daisy of Valois, son of Catherine de Mdicis.

Good part of its guests was of Remodelled eforam massacreed. In the carnage, at least thirty a thousand Protestants they had died, and the future king Enrique IV, it had that to abjure. They had insisted the Huguenotesno defensive character of its resistance, affirming the extreme vileness of governode Catherine. They had supported the rumor of that the Night of &#039 Is Bartolomeu; ' it are umaconspirao carefully planned, executed with deliberate intention to deexterminar the protestants franceses' ' (SKINNER, 1996. p 577). Thus, being the lesser partidoreformado one that the catholic, and having lost its main duranteos leaders conflicts, was obliged if to organize in a more solid way.

Oprncipe de Conde was nominated ' ' general and protective governor of the Churches reformadasde Frana' '. Collecting tributes of cities and villages, they used the money to paramanter an army of almost permanent form in the Joined Provinces (regiescontroladas for Huguenotes) of the South of France. In these areas, occult protestant, being forbidden the cultured catholic was authorized where she had maioriahuguenote. In 1581, in the assembly de1581, Enrique of Navarrese was proclaimed ' ' Protetor' ' of all Remodelled the deFrana and, in times of peace, these if they had accustomed to place a sovereign ambassador juntodo.