Background
Bellièvre was born in Lyon in 1529.
Bellièvre was born in Lyon in 1529.
Between 1575 and 1588, Bellièvre accepted more than a dozen diplomatic missions for King Henry III of France (1551–1589). With the king himself, he expressed his doubts more cautiously. As King Henry III lay dying in 1589, Bellièvre pronounced a devastating commentary on the royal master he had served: "If kings are good, we must preserve them.
If they are bad, we must endure them.
God sends one or the other to punish or console His people.".