The monks of Paris, capuchins, Carmelite friars, breaking into leaf, cordeliers, Jacobins, tiny, animated of a savage hatred against Henri IV, had taken the weapons to fight it; May 14, 1590, before going to the ramparts, they traversed the city by singing anthems, which intersected with the salvos of mousquetery.

Many schoolboys accompanied them.

A famous lampoon of time, the Ménippée satire, which turns the League into ridiculous, tells in pleasant terms this strange procession (1590).

Brisson had been appointed president of the Parliament by the members of a league, but it appeared soon too moderate to the Sixteen, committee of fanatic men who, since the seat, controlled Paris tyrannically.

Stopped to nine hours of the morning, on the Michaelmas bridge, as it went to the Palate, it was led to small Châtelet, and, after a ridiculous judgement, condemned to died in spite of its supplications, confessed to haste and hung in the room even, at eleven hours.

Its corpse was then fixed on the gibet of the place of Strike with a sign which declared it treacherous.

Many moderate men had the same fate (Nov. 1591).

Henri IV pushed with strength the head office of Rouen, when the duke of Parma came for the second time to tear off hands to him the victory.

Henri, leaving large army under the walls of Rouen, ran with a part of his cavalry ahead of of the Spaniards to observe their movements.

He met them in Aumale, and started the combat, although he had only 1000 men against 30 000: received by a hail of balls, wrapped by the enemy cavalry, it showed the first soldier of the world, but had its safety only with the extreme prudence of the duke of Parma, which, fearing a trap, did not dare to make give all its troops.