Next day, just as the Bishop of Valence was about to speak, Coligny went up to the king, made two genuflections, stigmatized in energetic terms the Amboise conspiracy and every similar enterprise, and presented two petitions, one intended for the king himself and the other for the queen-mother.
"They were forwarded to me in Normandy," said he, "by faithful Christians, who make their prayers to God in accordance with the true rules of piety.

They ask for nothing but the liberty of holding their own creed, and that of having temples and celebrating their worship in certain fixed places.

If necessary, this petition would be signed by fifty thousand persons." "And I," said the Duke of Guise brusquely, "would find a million to sign a contrary petition." This incident went no further between the two speakers.

A great discussion began as to the reforms desirable in the church, and as to the convocation of a general council, or, in default thereof, a national council.

The Cardinal of Lorraine spoke last, and vehemently attacked the petitions presented by Admiral de Coligny.