The Duke of Guise and the Cardinal Lorraine were for a rupture, for they hoped to increase their family influence by war.

Coligny had signed the treaty of Vaucelles, and wished to maintain it, but the influence of the Catholic party was in the ascendant.

The result was to embroil the Catholic King against the Pope and against themselves.

The queen was as favorably inclined as the mistress to listen to Caraffa, for Catherine de Medici was desirous that her cousin, Marshal Strozzi, should have honorable and profitable employment in some fresh Italian campaigns.
In the mean time an accident favored the designs of the papal court.

An open quarrel with Spain resulted from an insignificant circumstance.