War of Religions

With the failure of the edict of toleration, Admiral Coligny and the Prince of Condé are forced to flee to the safety of La Rochelle, from which they wage the Third War of Religion. After a month of fighting, they capture most of Western France for the Huguenots.

After the second war, the royal ministry almost immediately turns their backs on the edict of toleration as the kingdom descends into chaos once again.

In the final act of the Second War of Religion, the Prince of Condé lays siege to Chartres while the two sides hammer out a peace agreement.

After the Battle of Saint-Denis, the Prince of Condé flees east to meet up with German mercenaries in Lorraine as his armies consolidate. Meanwhile, a rogue Protestant commander disobeys direct orders from Condé and fights to expel the royalists from the south of France.

In this episode, we return to Paris where the fate of the city is left to a brutal fight between the armies of the Prince of Condé and Anne de Montmorency near the suburb of Saint-Denis.

At the same time while the Huguenots conspired to capture the king at Meaux, a group of Protestants in the city of Nîmes rise up to overthrow their city council, and extinguish Catholicism from their city once and for all.

The Protestants, fed up with the lack of enforcement of the edict of toleration, take it upon themselves to kidnap King Charles IX.

This episode turns from the events in Europe to examine the Huguenot attempts at colonization in Brazil and Florida.

After the peace, Huguenots and Catholics unite to drive the English from France. Afterwards, King Charles IX comes of age and celebrates with a royal tour of France to show off his force and make sure that the edict of tolerance was being enforced.

After the Battle of Dreux, the Duke of Guise leads his army to Orléans for a final siege to end the war. Catherine and Condé negotiate a peace, but not without an untimely death.