They were almost unanimously rejected.
Coligny did not consider himself bound to give them up.

"I have promised," said he, "on my own account, my assistance to the Prince of Orange; I hope the king will not take it ill if by means of my friends, and perhaps in person, I fulfil my promise." This reservation excited great surprise.

"Madam," said Coligny to the queen-mother, "the king is to-day shunning a war which would promise him great advantages; God forbid that there should break out another which he cannot shun!" The council broke up in great agitation.

"Let the queen beware," said Tavannes, "of the king her son's secret councils, designs, and sayings; if she do not look out, the Huguenots will have him.

At any rate, before thinking of anything else, let her exert herself to regain the mother's authority which the admiral has caused her to lose." The king was hunting at Brie.