[Footnote 607: 'Soll aussen bleiben.'—Sattler, iii. p. 129. Sleidan, iii. p. 369. Ranke, iii. p. 481.] [Footnote 608: The house of Wurtemberg boasts its descent from Emeric, mayor of the palace under Clovis.] [Footnote 609: _Hist. of the Ref. of the Sixteenth Century_, vol. i. bk. iii. ch. ii.] [Footnote 610: 'Snepfius Stuttgardiæ pastor ecclesias in illo ducatu reformavit.'—Melch. Adami _Vitæ Germanorum Theologorum_, p. 322.] [Footnote 611: _Hist. of the Ref. of the Sixteenth Century_, vol. iv. bk. xvi. ch. x.] CHAPTER XXXIV. CONFERENCE AT THE LOUVRE FOR THE UNION OF TRUTH AND CATHOLICITY IN THE CHURCH. (1534.) The Wurtemberg affair being ended, Du Bellay thought of nothing but his great plan; that is, a Reformation according to the ideas of the Queen of Navarre—the combination of catholicism and truth by the union of France and Germany. They were not the only persons who entertained such thoughts: Roussel, Bucer, and many other evangelical christians asked themselves whether the great success obtained in Germany would not decide the reformation of France. Intercourse was much increased between the two countries. Frenchmen and Germans were continually crossing and recrossing the Rhine. [Sidenote: A WITTEMBERG STUDENT.] In the month of July 1534, the Queen of Navarre was in one of the chambers of her palace: before her stood a bashful timid young man, and she had a letter in her hand which she appeared to be reading with the liveliest interest. The young man was a native of Nîmes, Claude Baduel by name. He had just come from Wittemberg, where he had found, at the feet of Melanchthon and Luther, the knowledge of the Saviour. He was not an ordinary student. Of reserved manners,[612] generous heart, rare disinterestedness, and great firmness in the faith, he had at the same time a highly cultivated mind. He spoke Latin not only with purity, but with great elegance, and his discourses were as full of matter as of harmony.[613]