Editing Michel de l'Hôpital (section)

===Religious toleration===
[[File:Galerie de pierre haute, sud - 2.jpg|thumb|Statue of L'Hôpital in the [[Palace of Versailles]]]]
That same month an [[Edict of 19 April|edict was issued]] that prohibited the use of the epithets 'Papiste' and 'Huguenot', two terms that L'Hôpital had taken issue with during his address to the estates in December.{{sfn|Knecht|2014|p=74}} The religious situation in France continued to deteriorate in 1561, in June of that year L'Hôpital warned the Paris ''Parlement'' that it would be necessary to stop Catholic children from parading through the streets with crosses, as this was viewed as incendiary by the Protestants, making it liable to cause a riot.{{sfn|Diefendorf|1991|p=59}} That same month he shaped the legislation that would form the [[Edict of July]], which affirmed the prohibition on Protestant worship, but at the same time formally removed the penalty of death for heresy, which had been de facto abolished in the [[Edict of Romorantin]], and prohibited those who were not officers of the crown from investigating their neighbours houses in search of heretical worship, which effectively legalised private worship.{{sfn|Thompson|1909|p=79}} During the debates in the ''pourparler'' that formulated the edict, L'Hôpital had been keen to go further, arguing that the ban on Protestantism was no longer workable, however the council voted against legalisation.{{sfn|Carroll|2011|p=148}}
In September 1561, a council, along the lines of the one L'Hôpital had envisioned at the Estates General, convened at [[Colloquy of Poissy]], with leading Catholics and Protestants in attendance. L'Hôpital opened the proceedings with a call for the assembled Catholic clergy to listen to the Protestant speakers, in the interests of reaching a harmonious position.{{sfn|Carroll|2011|p=151}} Despite proposals of uniting the faiths around the [[Confession of Augsburg]], talks with break down into acrimony over the subject of the Eucharist, leaving the talks to end in failure.{{sfn|Knecht|2010|p=32}}