He interfered with the education of Protestant children, confiscated property bequeathed to Protestant consistories, and on frivolous pretexts shut up Protestant churches.

The Protestant ministers were harassed by the tax gatherers.

The Protestant magistrates were deprived of the honour of nobility.

The Protestant officers of the royal household were informed that His Majesty dispensed with their services.
Orders were given that no Protestant should be admitted into the legal profession.

The oppressed sect showed some faint signs of that spirit which in the preceding century had bidden defiance to the whole power of the House of Valois.