On 3 January 1589 Dinteville wrote to Châlons, outlining his plan to collaborate with exiles from Troyes to seize the city back for the crown. He was optimistic, not yet believing the city to be a lost cause, despite Guise's coup of the previous year. The ligueurs in Troyes were not blind to his machinations, and the procureur de siège présidial was arrested shortly after, his correspondence with Dinteville having been uncovered. After a short trial, denounced by royalists as a sham, he was hanged on 16 January. On that same day, the council of Châlons wrote to Dinteville requesting he provide royal artillery that could be mounted on the walls of the city to defend them from any ligueur aggression. The following month he collaborated with the town in convincing a prominent ligueur, Clause, who was pushing for the city to join the ligue to depart from the city. He wrote complaints to the council but they ignored his requests to return while Dinteville and the council made further regulations to prevent sedition inside the walls.
