Count Louis returned to Rochelle strongly impressed with the king’s gracious demeanor, and urged Coligny to accept his sovereign’s invitation to court. He spoke of the projected matrimonial alliance between England and France, which was manifestly hostile to Spain, and would strengthen the Huguenot cause; and showed the draft of a treaty, by which Charles promised to attack Flanders on one side, while the Prince of Orange attacked it on the other. Marshal Cossé, one of the “Politicians,” confirmed this report. The admiral’s son-in-law, Teligny, had also returned from the court with a flattering account of the king’s demeanor. Charles at this time was seen in a most favorable light, and it was evident that the quiet influence of his amiable wife was beginning to be felt in his character. He was less boisterous in his amusements, less changeable in temper, and seemed to have buried the past in oblivion. Indeed he went so far in his display of good-will toward the Huguenots as to raise a suspicion that he supported them designedly against his mother, his brother Henry, and the Guises. “I am no longer so young,” he said, “as to need a governor. I am willing to listen to advice, but will receive no orders. I am sick of war, and _my peace_ shall be observed. I have been deceived all along about the Huguenots, and for the future will keep the factions in order myself.” He complained to Teligny, for whom he had conceived a strong liking,[481] that his mother kept him in thraldom, and preferred Anjou to him; that she governed the realm in such a way that he was of no account; and that to remedy this he was resolved to send both of them away from the court; and that he wanted Coligny’s advice, especially with regard to the proposed war in Flanders. In fact every thing seemed now to turn upon the admiral’s presence at court.