After the conversion of Henri IV the members of a league were divided than ever: the ones required peace of great cries, the others swore to be defended until death.

In Paris, agitation was extreme and the two parties were going to come from there to the hands, when suddenly, March 22, one saw Henri IV in Paris; the Brissac governor, bought by the king, had opened to him during the night the Saint-Denis door and the Neuve door; Sixteen, and the Spaniards had not had time to recognize themselves, and the king had become Master of the city as by enchantment.

He went at once to Notre-Dame, where the clergy awaited it to sing Te Deum.

The bells sounded with any flight; an immense crowd shouted: "the king Lives! "and all the hearts beat emotion, because this solemn hour marked the end of the civil war.

The good mood of Henri IV remained proverbial; its interview with Mayenne at Gabrielle d' Estrées, in Monceaux in Brie, is one of prettiest anecdotes the than one tells of him.

Mayenne, forced to acknowledge itself overcome, was thrown to the feet of Henri IV, while wondering with anguish which fate awaited it.

Henri, after having raised it, took it by the hand and involved it with great steps in the alleys of the park; Mayenne, which was very large and which suffered from the drop, was soon forced to stop to take again breath: "By God, tells him while laughing Henri IV, here is all my revenge; touch-there, my cousin, "and it embraced it.

From this day, Henri did not have a servant more devoted than Mayenne, the former chief of the members of a league.

The catch of Amiens by the Spaniards shows how much the war then differed from that from today.

One morning forty peasants, charged with bags of nut and follow-ups of a heavy cart, arise at a door of the city; while the ones make visit the bags and give nuts to the soldiers, others stop the car under the harrow and cut the features of the horses quickly, then the false peasants draw all together from the hidden weapons and precipitate on the French: the harrow falls at once, but stops on the car; other Spaniards, who were held ready to run, slip while crawling between the wheels and lend hand-strong to their comrades; the very whole army follows them and the city is taken (March 1597).