the chancellorship of Michel de l'Hôpital and regency of Catherine de Medici Saint André aligned himself with Montmorency and Guise in their opposition to this, agreeing to work together to ensure France remained Catholic in April 1561. Together they attended mass conducted by Cardinal Tournon on 7 April, and Guise and Montmorency who had been rivals for a decade exchanged the kiss of peace. Concurrently an agent of the Lyons town council reported back to the city that the governor of the Lyonnais, Saint André, had lost much of the influence he had held at court in the prior two reigns. François d'Agoult was granted the governorship of the town of Lyon, a subordinate position to Saint André in 1561. While not openly Protestant, he was deeply sympathetic to the religion in contrast to his superior. Opposition In January 1562, Catherine convoked an assembly at Saint-Germain, hoping to create an edict to solve the religious issue. Guise and Montmorency were absent, however Saint André attended to represent opposition to any toleration. Despite his presence the assembly would draw up the Edict of January which granted formal toleration to Protestantism for the first time. First civil war Shortly after the Massacre of Wassy perpetrated by Guise's men, Saint André was ordered to return to his government by Catherine on 3 March. He however ignored this order, and entered Paris alongside the Constable and Guise, to a warm welcome from the militant Catholics of the city. Now united, they began planning the logistics of raising troops and funds. In the negotiations that filled the early months of the first war of religion, Condé demanded as a condition for his disarmament the removal of several figures from court, among them Saint André. Campaigning With talks breaking down Saint André made an attempt to capture the city of Lyons in July, but was unsuccessful in this attempt. Moving on from the city, he seized Poitiers from the rebels in early August. He followed this victory with the equally quick recapture of Angoulême. In October, a large mercenary force that the rebels had successfully hired entered France under the leadership of Andelot. Saint André pulled the majority of the army's cavalry and the screening force that was weakly sieging Orléans to intercept this force, and prevent it linking up with the main rebel body under Condé. He would however fail in this and Andelot would