One hundred Citizens before the Council--Justification of the Fugitives--The Friburg Notary interrogates the Assembly--Rising-up of a little People--The Protest numerously signed--Measures of the Savoyard Party--Both Parties appeal to the Bishop--Pierre de la Baume at Geneva--Vandel wins him over--The Bishop braves and fears the Duke--Election of Syndics: Mameluke List--Episcopal List--Four Huguenots elected--The People quash the Decrees against Liberty--Effects of the good News at Berne--The Bark of God’s Miracles. PAGE 391 CHAPTER XXVII. GENEVA AND THE SWISS ALLIED. THE BISHOP, THE DUCALS, AND THE CANONS ESCAPE. JOY OF THE PEOPLE. (FEBRUARY TO AUGUST 1526.) Act of Alliance in the Name of the Trinity--Return of the Exiles to Geneva--Speech of Hugues--Reads the Act of Alliance--Clergy plot against the Alliance--The Bishop protests against it--People ratify the Alliance--Liberty of the People and Temporality of the Bishop--Germ of great Questions in Geneva--Genevans incline towards the Reform--Conspiracy of the Canons--A Flight--Everything by the Grace of God--The Swiss receive the Oaths of Geneva--Joy of the People--Honour to Bonivard, Berthelier, and Lévrier--Awakening of Society in the Sixteenth Century--Will the Tomb close again?--Greatest Glory of France--Her Salvation PAGE 407 BOOK II. FRANCE. FAVOURABLE TIMES. CHAPTER I. A MAN OF THE PEOPLE AND A QUEEN. (1525-1526.) Three Acts necessary for Union with God--Work of Luther, Zwingle, and Calvin--Truth and Morality procure Liberty--Calvin crowns the Temple of God--A Queen--Similarity between Margaret and Calvin--Their Contrast--Pavia--Effect produced on Charles V.--Advice of the Duke of Alva--Dismemberment of France--The Way of the Cross--Margaret’s Prayers--She finds the King dying--Francis restored to health--Margaret at Toledo--Her Eloquence and Piety--Admiration she inspires PAGE 427 CHAPTER II. MARGARET SAVES THE EVANGELICALS AND THE KING. (1525-1526.) Persecution in France--Berquin preaches at Artois--Opposition--Beda examines Berquin’s Books--Berquin put in prison--Margaret and the King interfere--Margaret’s Danger in Spain--The King’s false Oaths--The Pope sanctions Perjury PAGE 445 CHAPTER III. WILL THE REFORMATION CROSS THE RHINE. (1525-1526.) Passage of the Rhine at Strasburg--Count of Hohenlohe--Correspondence between Margaret and Hohenlohe--Margaret’s System--She invites Hohenlohe into France--Interdict against Speaking, Printing, and Reading--Berquin’s Examination--Margaret wins over her Mother in Berquin’s favour--Francis I. forbids the Parliament to proceed--Henry d’Albret, King of Navarre, seeks the Hand of Margaret--Her Anxieties PAGE 454 CHAPTER IV. DEATH OF THE MARTYRS--RETURN OF THE KING. (1526.)