In September of 1568, war again breaks out (the Third War) between French Catholics and Protestants.
Catherine and Charles decide this time to ally themselves with the House of Guise.
"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"