The king's first movement, when he heard of Cop's business and the flight of Calvin, was one of anger and persecution. Duprat, formerly first president of parliament, was much exasperated at the affront offered to that body. Francis commanded every measure to be taken to discover the person who had warned Cop of his danger; he would have had him punished severely as a favourer of heresy.[518] At the same time, he ordered the prosecution of those persons whom the papers seized in Calvin's room pointed out as partisans of the new doctrine. [Sidenote: MANY EVANGELICALS QUIT PARIS.] There was a general alarm among the evangelicals, and many left Paris. A Dominican friar, brother of De la Croix, feeling a growing thirst for knowledge, deliberated in his convent whether he ought not to remove to a country where the Gospel was preached freely.[519] He was one of those compromised by Calvin's papers. He therefore made his escape, reached Neufchatel, and thence proceeded to Geneva, where we shall meet him again. The greater part of the friends of the Gospel, however, remained in France: Margaret exerted all her influence with her brother to ward off the impending blow, and succeeded in appeasing the storm.[520] Francis was always between two contrary currents, one coming from Duprat, the other from his sister; and once more he followed the better. The Queen of Navarre, exhausted by all these shocks, disgusted with the dissipations of the court, distressed by the hatred of which the Gospel was the object among all around her, turned her face towards the Pyrenees. Paris, St. Germain, Fontainebleau, had no more charms for her; besides, her health was not strong, and she desired to pass the winter at Pau. But, above all, she sighed for solitude, liberty, and meditation; she had need of Christ. She therefore bade farewell to the brilliant court of France, and departed for the quiet Béarn. Adieu! pomps, pleasures, now adieu! No longer will I sort with you! Other pleasure seek I none Than in my Bridegroom alone! For my honour and my having Is in Jesus: him receiving, I'll not leave him for the fleeting!... Adieu, adieu![521] Margaret arrived in the Pyrenees. [Footnote 483: Théod. de Bèze, _Hist. Eccl._ i. p. 9.] [Footnote 484: Calvini _Opera_.] [Footnote 485: The document is in the library of Geneva (MS. 145). It has on the margin: 'Hæc Johannes Calvinus _propria manu_ descripsit, et est _auctor_.' Dr. Bonnet came upon it in the course of his researches for his edition of Calvin's Letters, and gave the author a copy.] [Footnote 486: 'Hac qui excellunt, tantum prope reliquæ hominum multitudini præstare mihi videntur, quantum homines belluis antecedunt.'—Geneva MSS. 145.] [Footnote 487: 'Sola Dei gratia peccata remittit.'—Ibid.] [Footnote 488: 'Spiritum sanctum, qui corda sanctificat et vitam æternam adfert, omnibus christianis pollicetur.'—Ibid.]