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 vu.j THE RELIGIOUS WARS. 105 bishoprics, though they were not as yet formally ceded by the Empire. But he had to restore the Duke of Savoy to his dominions, and to give him in marriage his sister Margaret. He was also to give his daughter Elizabeth either to Philip himself or his eldest son. The peace was signed at Cdtcmc Ctniibresis in 1559, and was the real end of the Italian wars. Henry further bound himself to pro- mote the re-assembling of the Council of Trent, and to exterminate heresy in France. The Parliament of Paris however objected to persecution until the Council should have decided what heresy really was, and Henry, going to the parliament, found the counsellor Anne Duboufg, not only arguing in favour of the Reformed, but speaking plain truths against court vices. Henry was so much offended that the staunch counsellor was arrested, and put on trial for treason. Burnings went on, and were beheld by the court as a meritorious action. Diana of Poitiers is said to have taken the opportunity of reveng- ing herself of a poor tailor employed about the palace, who had once rebuked her for her evil life. It was said that the man, on his way to execution, cast a glance on the king which Henry was never able to forget during the short remainder of his life. During the tournaments which celebrated the arrival of the Duke of Savoy for his marriage, the guard slipped from the lance of the Count of Montgovimery, and the point pierced the king's eye, so that he instantly lost consciousness. He died in eleven days' time, on the 29th of June, 1559, in his forty-first year, leaving four sons and four daughters. While he lay expiring, his sister Margaret was married in haste to Emmanuel Filibert, and Dubourg's trial was proceeded with, so that he was put to death a little later. Mont- gommery escaped, and did not fall into Catharine's hands till much later. CHAPTER VII. THE RELIGIOUS WARS. I. Francis II., 1559.- — Francis II., the eldest son of Henry II., was only fifteen, a sickly boy, married to Mary, the young Queen of Scots, and niece of Francis,