Editing Francis II of France (section)

====Amboise in the provinces====
Whilst the rebellion outside the castle of Amboise may have been crushed, the situation was deteriorating in the provinces. Troops raised for the conspiracy in Dauphine, Provence, and the Lyonnais were left without central direction, creating the nucleus of guerrilla armies that caused chaos in their localities.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Carroll|first=Stuart|title=Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780199596799|page=122}}</ref> Beyond the planned regional elements of Amboise, many Protestants began seizing churches independently, and engaging in acts of unauthorised iconoclasm, as in Rouen and Provence.<ref>{{harvp|Christin|1991|p=68}}</ref>  During the summer, this rebellious movement gained intensity; several cities in southern France were by now engulfed in revolt.<ref>See ''Histoire générale de Languedoc'', vol. LIV, 1889</ref><ref>{{harvp|de Ruble|1882|p=244}}</ref>

The climax of the regional disorder came in the early autumn, where on 4 September in [[Lyon]], a large stockpile of weapons was discovered in the city of Lyon by the authorities, after a brief firefight with a group of Protestants the weapons were seized, narrowly foiling a planned coup in the city by several days.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Benedict|first=Philip|title=Season of Conspiracy: Calvin, the French Reformed Churches and Protestation Plotting in the Reign of Francis II|publisher=American Philosophical Society Press|year=2020|isbn=9781606180853|page=1}}</ref> The narrow foiling of this conspiracy only further enraged the king and his administration who suspected the involvement of Condé in this affair. This was confirmed when an agent of his carrying papers that implicated him was intercepted.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Carroll|first=Stuart|title=Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780199596799|page=124}}</ref>

The king's reaction was fierce and determined: he mobilised his troops, sent the army to the rebellious areas to quell the sedition, and ordered governors to return to their positions.<ref>See {{harvp|Romier|1923|pp=233–234}}</ref> To isolate the renegade princes of the blood further the administration created two super-governorships giving one to [[Charles, Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon]] and the other to [[Louis, Duke of Montpensier]], thus divorcing their interests from those of their cousins. Heavily outnumbered Condé and Navarre decided making a stand and fighting would be pointless, and they departed their southern regional powerbase at the kings request to attend the forthcoming Estates General.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Carroll|first=Stuart|title=Martyrs and Murderers: The Guise Family and the Making of Europe|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2009|isbn=9780199596799|page=125}}</ref>