Earnest in faith, pure in motive, austere in his life, and mighty in his works, Calvin is one of those who deserve their great fame. Three centuries separate us from him, but it is impossible to examine his character and history without feeling, if not affection and sympathy, at least profound respect and admiration for one of the great reformers of Europe and of the Great Christians of France. Guizot. Val Richer, 1869. {363} Note To St. Louis. _The Punishment of Blasphemy_, p. 144. One of my learned colleagues, M. Natalis de Wailly (_Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres_) has pointed out that the punishment of branding a blasphemer on the lips with a red-hot iron (p. 144) was probably resorted to on account of some peculiarly heinous offence, and was an isolated case; that it cannot be considered as due to any general and permanent decree applied to all cases of 'that vile oath,' blasphemy, because there is an enactment of St. Louis (_Recueil des Ordonnances des Rois de France_, i. 99) which decrees that adult blasphemers shall be punished by a fine, or in default of fine, by the pillory and imprisonment. Blasphemers under fourteen years of age were to be whipped. M. de Wailly's remark is just, and I hasten to acknowledge that in this matter the piety of St. Louis did not systematically lead him to exercise general and excessive rigour. {364} List Of The Most Important Of The Works Referred To In This Volume. St. Louis. Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartres. Dom Bouquet's _Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France_, vol. xx. Faure (Félix), _Histoire de Saint Louis_. Paris, 1867. Histoire littéraire de France, vol. xvi. Joinville. Edition published by Mr. N. de Wailly. Paris, 1867. Jubainville, _Histoire des Dues et des Comtes de Champagne_. Paris (Mathieu), _Histoire de l'Angleterre_. Folio edition, 1644. Recueil des Ordonnances des Rois de France, vol. i. Rémusat (Abel), _Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres_. Tillemont (le Nain du), _Vie ae Saint Louis_, édit, par De Gaulle (_Soc. de l'Histoire de France_). 1847-51. Topin (Morin), _Aiguesmortes_. 1865. Calvin. Beza, _L'Histoire en bref de la Vie et Mort de Calvin_, par Th. de Bèze. Lyons, 1565. (_Archives curieuses de L'Histoire de France_.) _Histoire des Églises réformées de France_. Calvin, _Œuvres de Calvin_. Brunswick, 1863. Drelincourt, _La Défense de Calvin_. Genève, 1667. Gaberel (Jean, _ancien pasteur_), _Histoire de l'Église de Genève_. Genève, 1853. Guizot (C. F. G.), _Meditations sur la Religion_. Paris, 1868. _Histoire de la Civilisation en France_. Paris, 1868. Henry (Paul), _Das Leben Johann Calvins_. Hamburg, 1835. Martin (Henri), _Histoire de France_, vol. xxiv. Stähelin (Lie. E.), _Johannes Calvin_ (_Hagenbach_). 1860-63.