Marie Stuart remained famous because of her beauty, her spirit and of her misfortunes.

Girl of king d' Écosse Jacques V and Marie of Lorraine, it married in 1558 the Francois, dolphin to which it brought the title of king d' Écosse, and went up on the throne with him the following year; widow at seventeen years and persecuted by Catherine de Médicis, it turned over to Scotland, where it was made like, then to hate her subjects, and after a series of catastrophes it fell to the capacity from the sound enemy, Élisabeth Queen of England, which made it decapitate (1587).

With the death of Henri II, one had needed for France a saver, able to defend it against anarchy and to keep its row in Europe to him: it had as a king François II, child a fifteen year old, weak of body and spirit, undecided character, which was entirely let control by his wife Marie Stuart and the Own ways.

The policy of François 1st, the true policy of France, was abandoned, and during one half-century all the energy of our country was lost in the deads agitations of the civil war.

Girl of king de Navarre Henri d' Albret, and mother of Henri IV; Jeanne d' Albret supported Protestantism.

Coligny had fought bravely in the wars against Charles-Quint and Philippe II.

After the death of Henri II, it was made calvinist, taken share with the wars of religion and became the chief of the party protesting with died of Cop in 1569.

The chief of the conspiracy of Amboise was an adventurer named Renaudie.

It got along with the prince of Condé, brings together in Nantes, in the greatest secrecy, the delegates of the Protestant cities, and was advisable with them to remove the king with the castle of Blois, then to stop the Own ways, to have the government.

But François de Guise, informed plot by spies and two treacherous Protestants with their party, took along the king to the castle of Amboise, easier to defend, made come from the troops to small noise and was held on his guards without appearing anything to know.

Entreated were taken as with the trap: detachments of cavalry embusqués in wood seized them before they had been able to be assembled and led them to the castle of Amboise, where the majority were decapitated, hung or drowned.

Renaudie, surprised in the wood of Castle-Renaud, was killed out of a blow of arquebus, after having sold its life dearly, and its body was attached to an bracket on the bridge of the Loire (March 1560).

The prince of Condé, who had awaited the events before taking the weapons, declared impudently that it was not plot, and as there was no against him unquestionable proof, François de Guise was constrained to let it leave.

King de Navarre by his marriage with Jeanne d' Albret; protesting like it was done, then turned over to Catholicism.

The Brantôme chronicler traces a portrait of the Hospital: "With its large white beard, its pale face, its serious way, it was the true portrait of Jerome saint; all feared it as the schoolboys fear the main thing of their college "