He is not to lend his name to cover this usurpation." And so the concluding interview terminated in an exchange of threats rather than with any hope of accommodation.
Hohenzollern used as high language to the ministers as to the monarch, and received payment in the same coin.

He rebuked their course not very adroitly as being contrary to the interests of Catholicism.

They were placing the provinces in the hands of Protestants, he urged.

It required no envoy from Prague to communicate this startling fact.

Friends and foes, Villeroy and Jeannin, as well as Sully and Duplessis, knew well enough that Henry was not taking up arms for Rome.