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The Difficulties of Forgetting The Difficulties of Forgetting
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Restoring Public Order Restoring Public Order
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Charles IX Faces the Dangers Charles IX Faces the Dangers
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The Burden of Mistrust The Burden of Mistrust
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The Guises’ Revenge The Guises’ Revenge
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Catholic Indignation Catholic Indignation
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Notes Notes
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1 Trial by Suspicion: The Peace of 1570
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Published:May 2015
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Abstract
The terms of the third ‘peace of religion’(1570) were crucial to the rising tensions that sparked the 1572 massacres, especially its insistence that acts of violence by Catholics and Protestants should be forgotten if not forgiven. Charles IX’s firm commitment to the peace and its core terms was key to his policy of restoring order, but it was opposed, especially by Catholic pamphleteers and preachers bent on eliminating heresy. For them, forgetting recent actions in defence of the true religion was akin to apostasy. Royal control over government, central and provincial, was also at stake, given that religious differences had sharpened the political rivalries among the political elites, but as royal commissioners sent to impose religious peace discovered, many provinces were hostile or difficult to control. At the centre, rivalry between the leading aristocratic groupings threatened Charles IX’s capacity to sustain a deeply unpopular peace. In mid-1572 France was increasingly edgy, with rumours and memories of earlier conspiracies still capable of triggering alarms. Paris, the capital, epitomised these fears.
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