Order and Liberty proceed from Truth--Beda and Berquin--Berquin’s Enterprise--Terror of his Friends--Beda confined in the Palace--Berquin attacks Beda and the Sorbonne--Erasmus’s Fears--He will not fight--Agitation of the Catholic Party PAGE 539 CHAPTER X. EFFORTS OF DUPRAT TO BRING ABOUT A PERSECUTION--RESISTANCE OF FRANCIS I. (1527-1528.) Louisa of Savoy and Duprat--Francis I. and the Sixteenth Century--Bargain proposed by the Clergy--Margaret encouraged--Her Walks at Fontainebleau--Her Accouchement at Paris--Martyrdom of De la Tour--Margaret returns hastily to Paris--A Synod in Paris--Duprat solicits the King--Synods in other parts of France--Duprat and the Parliament reconciled--The King resists the Persecution PAGE 549 CHAPTER XI. FÊTES AT FONTAINEBLEAU AND THE VIRGIN OF THE RUE DES ROSIERS. (1528.) Evangelisation by the Queen of Navarre--The Queen and the Hunter--Le Mauvais Chasseur--Marriage of Renée with the Duke of Ferrara--The King’s Fit of Anger--The Image of the Virgin broken--Grief and Cries of the People--Efforts to discover the Criminal--Immense Procession--Miracles worked by the Image--The King gives the Rein to the Persecutors. PAGE 561 CHAPTER XII. PRISONERS AND MARTYRS AT PARIS AND IN THE PROVINCES. (1528.) A Christaudin--Denis of Meaux--Briçonnet in Denis’s Dungeon--The Hurdle and the Stake--The Holy Virtues of Annonay--Machopolis, Renier, and Jonas--Berquin’s Calmness in the Storm--Berquin arrested--Blindness of the Papacy--Out of Persecution comes the Reformer PAGE 572 HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION IN EUROPE IN THE TIME OF CALVIN. BOOK I. GENEVA AND THE FIRST HUGUENOTS. CHAPTER I. THE REFORMATION AND MODERN LIBERTY. Facts alone do not constitute the whole of history, any more than the members of the body form the complete man. There is a soul in history as well as in the body, and it is this which generates, vivifies, and links the facts together, so that they all combine to the same end. The instant we begin to treat of Geneva, which, through the ministry of Calvin, was to become the most powerful centre of Reform in the sixteenth century, one question starts up before us. What was the soul of the Reformation of Geneva? Truly, salvation by faith in Christ, who died to save--truly, the renewal of the heart by the word and the Spirit of God. But side by side with these supreme elements, that are found in all the Reformations, we meet with secondary elements that have existed in one country and not in another. What we discover at Geneva may possibly deserve to fix the attention of men in our own days: the characteristic element of the Genevese Reform is liberty.