The royalists and this group were defeated by a man who said "Paris is well worth a mass.
This group once retreated after the opposing army armed peasants with scythes that glistened in the sunlight, and placed them on a hill with his army to create the illusion of large numbers. This group is depicted as the Lernaen Hydra being slaughtered by Hercules in a painting by Toussaint Dubreuil. This group issued coins in the name of Charles de Bourbon, whom they considered king. This group gained Spanish support by the terms of the Treaty of Joinville, and it coalesced following the Treaty of Monsieur, so-named because it was negotiated by a king's brother. A member of the "Forty-Five" bodyguard allied with this group, who traveled to a camp in Saint-Cloud and drove a knife into his target's spleen, was named (*) Jacques Clement. The Council of Sixteen, convoked by this group's leader, coordinated the Day of the Barricades. The royalists and this group were defeated by a man who said "Paris is well worth a mass." For 10 points, name this group established by Henry, Duke of Guise during the French Wars of Religion, a rabidly anti-Protestant faction
This group once retreated after the opposing army armed peasants with scythes that glistened in the sunlight, and placed them on a hill with his army to create the illusion of large numbers.
Catholic League of France [or Holy League]