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When Charles IX. did not see him at his first dinner, he asked where he was. Some Guisard doubtless told him of what had occurred between Amyot and the queen-mother. "Has he been forced to disappear because I made him grand-almoner?" cried the king. He thereupon rushed to his mother in the violent wrath of angry children when their caprices are opposed.
"But it is not here, nor that brutal Cypierre who will teach you how to reign." "It is for you to do so, my dear mother," said the boy, mollified by his victory and relaxing the surly and threatening look stamped by nature upon his countenance. Catherine sent Gondi to recall the new grand-almoner.
The following scene, preserved in history, took place, on the very day the envoys returned from Geneva, in the hotel de Coligny near the Louvre. At his coronation, Charles IX., who was greatly attached to his tutor Amyot, appointed him grand-almoner of France. This affection was shared by his brother the Duc d'Anjou, afterwards Henri III., another of Anjou's pupils.
How strong we might have been with Cardinal de Tournon! What a trio with Tournon for grand-almoner, and l'Hopital, and de Thou! As for the burghers of Paris, I intend to make my son cajole them; we will get a support there." Accordingly, Albert de Gondi became a marshal of France and was created Duc de Retz and governor of the king a few days later.
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