Editing Michel de l'Hôpital (section)

===Ascendency===
During the period 1563–1566, L'Hôpital and his faction were ascendant on the council.{{sfn|Carroll|2005|p=127}}  In March 1563 the first war of religion was brought to a close in the [[Edict of Amboise]], which granted limited toleration to Protestantism. L'Hôpital opined that the experience of civil war, would induce French citizens to be more forgiving of their neighbours, and less quick to cause disorder.{{sfn|Roberts|2013|p=171}} Much of Catholic France was horrified at the terms, and attempted to resist the edicts implementation. De Thou of the Paris ''Parlement'' was summoned to meet with L'Hôpital in May, and despite his best efforts to appease the chancellor was compelled to withdraw the courts policy that all its members complete a profession of faith.{{sfn|Roelker|1996|p=289}}  In August 1563, Charles IX was declared an adult in a session of the ''Parlement'' of [[Rouen]]. His majority was combined with a formal proclamation of the Edict of Amboise. It was hoped by L'Hôpital and Catherine that by packaging the two together it would be harder for the court to oppose the peace. Rouen was chosen as the location in which to declare the majority by the pair as a way to punish the Paris ''Parlement'' for its resistance to the policies they had been promulgating in the previous years, the ''Parlement'' was greatly wounded by this blow to its prestige as the premier ''Parlement''.{{sfn|Knecht|2014|p=96}} The ''Parlement'' remonstrated the king, refusing to recognise either his majority or the permanence of the peace, complaining about the linking of the two. The king reprimanded those representatives that came to visit him, telling them that the role of the ''Parlement'' was to administer justice, not to be his mentors, or custodians of the kingdom.{{sfn|Knecht|2014|p=98}}