prince of the blood, receiving the courts condolences. Arnauld Sorbin, who had given the sermon at the death of Montmorency and the king's brother Charles IX was tasked with overseeing the funerals. The sculptor Germain Pilon was commissioned to create an elaborate tomb for the favourites, he fashioned large sarcophagi from black marble, with a kneeling figure reading from a book of hours on the top. Henri wrote to Maugiron's father, expressing the devotion he had felt towards his son, explaining the circumstances of his death and assuring Maugiron that he had died honourably. Laurent had already received letters from his son's allies at court, Roussillon and Suze. After his death his two brothers, Thimoléon and Scipion de Maugiron would both receive the honour of becoming a gentilhomme de la chambre'', the former in 1582 and the latter in 1585. While Henri had planned to place Maugiron in a position of authority in his home province of Dauphiné, his early death in 1578 destroyed such plans. Legacy Contemporaries deplored the pointless nature of the violence that had unfolded, with three of the participants dead or dying by the conclusion of the engagement. La Noue described the engagement as senseless. Brantôme by contrast praised the bravery and good combats of many of the figures of court. Describing those such as Maugiron as valiant and noble. After the king ordered the assassination of the duke of Guise in December 1588, an angry crowd of Parisian Catholics, at the urgings of their preachers, took their anger out on the tombs of the favourites, destroying all three. Excising them from Saint-Paul the crowd grumbled that the rightful resting place of the men was on a gibbet, not in a sacred place. In the wake of the duel Pasquinades were circulated in the city implying that Henri's favourites had 'unorthodox morals'. The relationship between Caylus and Maugiron was implied to be homosexual by the polemicists of Paris, however no such evidence of this exists from the time. L'Estoile who collected the polemics he found on the streets of Paris found many Tombeau verses dedicated to Maugiron, which characterised him and the other courtiers of Henri as dishonest, dirty and immoral. Sources References 1560 births 1578 deaths French people of the French Wars of Religion Court of Henry III of France