Editing Château d'Amboise (section)

===Amboise conspiracy===
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In 1560, during the [[French Wars of Religion]], a conspiracy by members of the [[Huguenot]] [[House of Bourbon]] against the [[House of Guise]] that virtually ruled France in the name of the young Francis II was uncovered by [[Francis, Duke of Guise]] and stifled by a series of hangings, which took a month to carry out. By the time it was finished, 1,200 Protestants were [[Gibbeting|gibbetted]], strung from the town walls, hung from the iron hooks that held [[Pennon|pennants]] and [[Tapestry|tapestries]] on festive occasions and from the very balcony of the ''Logis du Roy''. The Court soon had to leave the town because of the smell of corpses.

The abortive peace of Amboise was signed at Amboise on 12 March 1563, between [[Louis I, Prince of Condé]], who had been implicated in the conspiracy to abduct the king, and [[Catherine de' Medici]]. The "edict of pacification", as it was termed, authorised Protestant services only in chapels of ''seigneurs'' and justices, with the stipulation that such services be held outside the walls of towns. Neither side was satisfied by this compromise, nor was it widely honoured.

[[File:AmboiseStHubertChapelCarving.jpeg|thumb|Detail of [[Gothic architecture|Late Gothic]] carving on the Chapel of Saint-Hubert]]