In what the tyranny of the popes and the violence of the Spaniards had left him of his kingdom of Navarre, Catholics and Protestants enjoyed a perfect religious liberty.

No man had the right, therefore, to denounce him as an enemy of the church, or a disturber of the public repose, for he had ever been willing to accept all propositions of peace which left the rights of conscience protected.
He was a Frenchman, a prince of France, a living member of the kingdom; feeling with its pains, and bleeding with its wounds.

They who denounced him were alien to France, factitious portions of her body, feeling no suffering, even should she be consuming with living fire.

The Leaguers were the friends and the servants of the Spaniards, while he had been born the enemy, and with too good reason, of the whole Spanish race.
"Let the name of Papist and of Huguenot," he said, "be heard no more among us.

Those terms were buried in the edict of peace.