The news of Henry III's death is received inside the city with a joy near delirium; some hail the assassination as an act of God.

League partisans see Clément as a martyr.

Soon praised by Pope Sixtus V to the degree that canonization is even discussed, Clément never does achieve sainthood.

The childless Henry III, who is interred at the Saint Denis Basilica, is the last of the Valois kings; Henry III of Navarre has succeeded him as Henry IV, the first of the Bourbon kings, but the League refuses to recognize the Protestant king’s legitimacy.

The League instead proclaims Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon as king, while still a prisoner and in the castle of Chinon, and immediately begins issuing coins in his name from fifteen mints, including Paris.

Charles, however, renounces the royal title and recognizes his nephew as the rightful king.