Discussion took place next day in the king's cabinet; and a threat was held out to him that a portion of the deputies would quit the meeting of states.

The queen-mother advised her son to compromise.

The king yielded, according to his custom, and gave authority for cutting out the strongest expressions, amongst others those just quoted.

"The correction was accordingly made," says M.Picot, the latest and most able historian of the states-general, "and Henry III.
had to add this new insult to all that were rankling at the bottom of his heart since the affair of the Barricades." This was, for the Duke of Guise, a first trial of his power, and great was his satisfaction at this first success.

On leaving the opening session of the states-general, he wrote to the Spanish ambassador Mendoza, "I handled our states so well that I made them resolve to require confirmation of the edict of union (of July 21 preceding) as fundamental law of the state.