Francis  I.  protested  against  the  treaty  of  Cambray,  as  he  had  done  against
that  of  Madrid.  He  persisted  in  affirming  that  Asti  and  Milan  were  his
inalienable  inheritance,  and  that  of  his  children  ;  that  Genoa  belonged  to
him  ;  that  it  was  impossible  for  a  treaty  wrung  from  him  first  by  his  own
captivity,  and  then  by  that  of  his  children,  to  be  binding  upon  him.2
When  the  verification  of  it  was  laid  before  the  parliament,  the  procureur
general,  Maitre  Francois  Rogier,  solemnly  protested  against  it,  on  the
ground  that  it  had  been  brought  about  by  the  violence  done  to  a  feudal
lord  by  his  vassal,  and  was  therefore  contrary  to  the  fundamental  laws
of  the  empire.3  But  these  protests  were  only  the  utterance  of  the  feeling
that  France  yielded  to  force, — and  very  reluctantly  ;  they  were  an  act
of  reservation  for  the  future,  wholly  insignificant  for  the  present,  and
therefore  attracting  no  attention.
