[Footnote 378: Du Bellay, _Mém._ p. 182.] [Footnote 379: Ibid.] [Footnote 380: Ibid. Guicciardini. Pallavicini.] [Footnote 381: Du Bellay, _Mém._ p. 182.] [Footnote 382: Ibid. pp. 182, 183.] [Footnote 383: Du Bellay, _Mém._ p. 186.] [Footnote 384: Du Bellay, _Mém._ p. 185.] [Footnote 385: The protestant sovereigns.] [Footnote 386: Du Bellay, _Mém._ pp. 186, 187.] [Footnote 387: Acts xv. 23.] [Footnote 388: The Emperor Joseph II.] [Footnote 389: Du Bellay, _Mém._ p. 189.] [Footnote 390: Du Bellay, _Mém._ p. 187.] [Footnote 391: Guicciardini. Du Bellay.] [Footnote 392: Du Bellay, _Mém._ p. 189.] [Footnote 393: _State Papers_, vii. p. 439.] [Footnote 394: 'The 28th the emperor departed from hens' (_State Papers_, viii. p. 438), 'and went to Milan' (p. 447).] [Footnote 395: Du Bellay, _Mém._ p. 189.] [Footnote 396: Ibid.] CHAPTER XXVII. STORM AGAINST THE QUEEN OF NAVARRE AND HER 'MIRROR OF THE SINFUL SOUL.' (SUMMER 1533.) [Sidenote: UNEASINESS OF THE ULTRAMONTANES.] The Romish party would not be comforted under its defeat. Beda, Le Picard, and Mathurin in exile; evangelical sermons freely preached in the great churches of the capital; the new doctrines carried through Paris from house to house; and the Queen of Navarre seated, as it were, upon the throne during her brother's absence, protecting and directing this Lutheran activity—it was too much! The anxiety and alarm of the ultramontanists increased every day: they held numerous conferences; and if the young Alsatian whom we saw at the gate of the Sorbonne, or any other inquisitive person, could have crept into these catholic committees, he would have heard the most violent addresses. 'It is not only the approach of the enemy that alarms us,' they said: 'he is there ... the revolutionary, immoral, impious, atheistic, abominable, execrable monster!' Other epithets were added, to be found only in the popish vocabulary. 'He is making rapid progress; unless we resist him vigorously, it is all over! The world will perhaps see crumbling under his blows those ancient walls of Roman catholicism under which the nations have taken shelter for so many ages.' And hence the Sorbonne was of the same opinion with the priests and the most hot-headed laymen, that, overlooking for the moment secondary persons, it was necessary to strike the most dangerous. In their eyes the Queen of Navarre was the great enemy of the papacy; the monks, in particular, whose disorders she had not feared to expose, were full of fury against her; their clamours were heard in every quarter. 'The queen,' they said, 'is the modern Eve by whom the new revolt is entering into the world.'—'It is the nature of women to be deceived,' said one; and to prove it he quoted St. Jerome. 'Woman is the gate of the devil,' said another, citing the authority of Tertullian. 'The wily serpent,' said the greatest doctors, 'remembers that memorable duel fought in Paradise. Another fight is beginning, and