An interview between Ludwig Pfyffer and Charles IX, 1567. Seen here Pfyffer is persuading Charles to trust himself to the Swiss guards, he later won fame by safely leading the royal family of Charles IX from Meaux to Paris while under Huguenot attack (1567). Ludwig Pfyffer, 1524 - 1594. Swiss military leader. Charles IX,1550 - 1574. King of France. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.