[31] Brissac was governor of Piedmont under Henry II, where he sustained the interests of France so energetically that Philip hated him. The Guises made great efforts to attach him to their party, with the hope of playing him against the Bourbons and Montmorencys (Paris, Négociations, 73, note). After the peace of Cateau-Cambrésis, the fortresses of the duke of Savoy were dismantled, to the intense anger of the latter. Cf. Fillon Collection, 2,654: Letter of July 16, 1560, to the duchess of Mantua, complaining that the people of Caluz have revolted against the authority of the marshal Brissac. This hard feeling probably explains Brissac’s transfer to the government of Picardy, in January, 1560, to the chagrin of the prince of Condé, who asked for the place (Varillas, Hist. de François II, II, 35; De Thou, Book XXV, 518) after the marriage of Emanuel Philibert to the sister of Henry II. See Marchand, Charles I de Cossé, comte de Brissac, Paris, 1889, chap. xvi.
[32] La Place, 26.
[33] C. S. P. For., Nos. 1,121, 1,149, August 4 and August 8, 1559.
[34] C. S. P. For., No. 972, July 11, 1559.
[35] Tavannes, 244. In Spain it was the prevailing belief that France had been compelled to make the peace of Cateau-Cambrésis more through the troubles caused by the affairs of religion than from any other necessity; cf. C. S. P. Ven., No. 57, 1559. This suspicion is confirmed by Tavannes, who says that the settlement of matters still pending under the terms of the treaty was hastened by the Guises through knowledge that the state of affairs in France was exceedingly unsatisfactory to many of the nobles and fear that their power would be openly rebelled against (Tavannes, 245; C. S. P. For., No. 590, January 18, 1560, and No. 26, October 5, 1559).
[36] The pretext was Montmorency’s complaint because his son Damville was not given the government of Provence, which St. André had held (Rel. vén., I, 435; cf. Nég. Tosc., III, 401).
[37] “Vieil routier.”—La Planche, 207.
[38] “Le connestable ... resigna bien d’estat de grand-maistre entre les mains du roy, mais purement et simplement, et non en faveur du dict de Guyse, déclarant assez qu’il ne cédoit en rien à son adversaire.”—La Planche, 216. Cf. D’Aubigné, I, 245, Book II, chap. xiv; Rel. vén., I, 393; Tavannes, 245; Castlenau, Book I, chap. ii; Baschet, La diplomatie venétienne, 495. La Place, 26, is in error. An attempt was made to soften Montmorency’s fall by making his eldest son a marshal of France; Tavannes, 245; C. S. P. For., No. 376, December 5, 1559.
[39] La Planche, 203.
[40] Castelnau, Book I, chap. iii.