[5] Several years later, in 1571, Maurevert re-wrote his will signing over all his goods to his half-brother Pierre de Foissy.

Cutting out the family that would have received his inheritance earned him their ire, and could explain the violent confrontations he had with them in the following years.

[8] On his way back from a meeting in the Louvre on 22 August 1572, Gaspard II de Coligny was shot from a first storey window by Maurevert, the arquebus projectile passed through his hand and arm, leaving him non-fatally wounded.

[14][8] As Coligny was carried from the street he pointed out to where Maurevert had taken the shot from, and several of his gentleman (Saint-Auban and Séré) entered pursuit.

[15] The assassination botched, Maurevert began his escape, mounting a horse provided for him from the Guise stables and making off.

[17] At Charenton they were able to arrest an accomplice, Georges Postel a servant of Maurevert's uncle, who had another fresh mount for the would-be assassin.

[5] The Papal Nuncio, Salviati opined that had Maurevert fired more accurately, the Massacre that followed in the next days would never have occurred.

The crown, increasingly alarmed by the angry threats against various Catholic notables who were held to Maurevert's paymaster, decided to pre-emptively eliminate the Protestant leadership in the capital, however, this spiralled out of control into the massacre.

[7][19] On 25 September 1573, Maurevert was granted a pension of 2000 livres by the duke of Guise until such time as the king provided him with an equivalent sum.

[3] Conscious that one of the people he had killed was likely to seek vengeance against him at some point he went everywhere accompanied by armed guards and wore chainmail at all times.