Editing Michel de l'Hôpital (section)

===Fall from favour===
Though the war was formally brought to a close at [[Peace of Longjumeau|Longjumeau]], it quickly became apparent the peace was ephemeral in the following months, with sporadic fighting continuing in the south. L'Hôpital, who believed in the peace found himself increasingly at odds with the rest of the royal council, that wanted to overturn the peace and return to war. In May a royal council meeting met to discuss the problems of ensuring obedience towards the peace. L'Hôpital blamed the youth of the king as encouraging his vassals to disobey him. Morvillier, another moderate on the council disagreed, arguing that religious plurality was causing issues, as much as the king's youth.{{sfn|Roberts|2013|p=101}} That same month, he withdrew from court, dispirited that his influence on the direction of royal policy appeared to be at an end.{{sfn|Roelker|1968|p=292}} Soon thereafter he asked to be relieved of his office.{{sfn|Knecht|2016|p=32}} Having been informed that negotiations were under way between the crown and the Pope, to receive the alienation of church land in return for the revocation of the Edict of Amboise and a resumption of war on heresy, L'Hôpital returned to the court in September to oppose it.  The Pope saw L'Hôpital as one of his chief opponents on the court.{{sfn|Sutherland|1980|p=162}} L'Hôpital for his part made it clear he would refuse to affix his seals to the alienation of church lands which would require war on heresy.{{sfn|Jouanna|1998|p=1041}} In a fiery session of council L'Hôpital clashed with Lorraine on 19 September, arguing that this course of action would plunge France into civil war and overrun the land with ''reiters''. He refused to affix his seal to any agreement that authorised this policy. Lorraine jabbed at L'Hôpital that he was a hypocrite and that his wife and daughter were both Protestants. L'Hôpital in turn shot back a sarcastic joke about Guisard corruption, enraging Lorraine who attempted to seize L'Hôpital's beard, before [[François de Montmorency]] stepped between the two men and attempted to calm the chamber. Lorraine was uninterested in his efforts and turned to Catherine, informing her that L'Hôpital was the chief cause of the kingdoms ills, and that if he was in the hands of the ''Parlement'' of Paris, he would be executed within 24 hours.{{sfn|Thompson|1909|pp=366-367}} L'Hôpital for his part explained that in fact Lorraine was the cause of the kingdoms ills, but it was apparent to him that he no longer had the power to change the direction of the crowns policy, and he left again shortly thereafter to his estates at Vignay near [[Étampes]].{{sfn|Carroll|2011|p=183}}{{sfn|Knecht|2014|p=124}}{{sfn|Jouanna|1998|p=1041}} A week later on 28 September L'Hôpital was obliged to yield the seals of his office, and he left for retirement.{{sfn|Thompson|1909|p=367}} The crown meanwhile revoked the past toleration edicts, and issued the [[Edict of Saint-Maur]], which outlawed Protestantism, steps L'Hôpital could not have taken.{{sfn|Salmon|1975|p=173}}

On 7 October [[Jean de Morvillier]] received his seals.{{sfn|Knecht|2016|p=32}} His dismissal as ''garde des sceaux'' elicited the rapturous excitement of radical preachers in Paris, [[Simon Vigor]] celebrated the news, denouncing L'Hôpital as the man who 'put the knife into the hands of our enemy'.{{sfn|Diefendorf|1991|p=156}}