Pour la sauvegarde du roi et du royaume. L’expulsion des Jésuites de France à la fin des guerres de religion

On 12 July 1594, an important trial began before the Parlement of Paris. It opposed the University of Paris and the parish priests of the capital to the Society of Jesus. The impact of this trial was enormous. Antoine Arnauld, the University’s lawyer, accused the Jesuits of having master-minded France’s wars of religion that nearly consumed entirely the realm since 1562 for Spain’s profit. Although those accusations were grossly exaggerated, they showed that a number of royalist partisans were concerned that external agents could destroy the peace that was slowly gaining all the kingdom. For the realm’s sake the Jesuits, who were accused of entertaining the idea of a regicide and of misappropriating France’s wealth for Philip II, had to be expelled from the kingdom

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