At the end of the assembly, the First bEstate/b (the clergy) chose him to deliver the address enumerating its petitions and decisions. Soon after the dissolution of the States-General, Richelieu entered the service of King Louis XIII's wife, b.../b Protestant forces, however, were defeated in 1629; Rohan submitted to the terms of the Peace of bAlais/b. As a result, religious toleration for Protestants, which had first been granted by the Edict of Nantes in 1598, was permitted to b.../b