The Spirituals or Libertines—Calvin a Conservative—Murder and Theft—Calvin begins the Struggle—False Liberality of the Spirituals—Treatise against the Libertines—Servetus—He desires to win Calvin and France—Calvin and Servetus on the Trinity—Luther, Zwingli, and Bucer against Servetus—A Discussion appointed—Servetus stays away—_Psychopannychia_—Character of Calvin's Divinity—His Happiness at La Forge's—Determines to leave Paris—The Travellers robbed—They arrive at Strasburg 92 CHAPTER IX. THE PLACARDS. (OCTOBER 1534.) Temporisers and Scripturists—Feret sent by the Christians of Paris to consult Farel—Movement in Switzerland—Farel writes the Placards—Examined by the Paris Christians—Shall they be published?—Posting of the Placards—Their Contents—Their Violence neutralises their Success 100 CHAPTER X. THE KING'S ANGER. (AUTUMN 1534.) Commotion caused by the Placards—A New Missive—Placard posted on the King's Door—His Indignation—The King's Orders—Anguish of the Reformed—Morin lays his Plans—The Sketch-maker betrays his Brethren—Arrests—Valeton and his Books are taken—Du Bourg and the Paralytic seized—Numerous Arrests—Duprat and De Tournon excite the King—Grief of Queen Margaret—She intercedes in Roussel's Favour—Beda accuses the King—_Mass of Seven Points_—The Queen's Preachers before the King 123 CHAPTER XI. EXPIATIONS AND PROCESSIONS. (END OF 1534 AND BEGINNING OF 1535.) Milon's Martyrdom—Du Bourg at the Stake—Poille's Sufferings and Courage—Terror and Emigration—Quality of the Fugitives—Hardships of the Flight—Roussel, Berthaud and Courault—The King urged to persecute—Preparations for the Procession—The Procession—Calvin on the Relics—Penitence of the King—The Two Januaries 21 140 CHAPTER XII. ELOQUENCE AND TORTURES OF FRANCIS I. (JANUARY 21, 1535.) Dinner at the Bishop's—The King's Speech—Effects of the King's Rhetoric—The Procession on its Return—The Strappado—Martyrdom of Valeton—Torture at the Halles—Proclamations and Punishments—La Forge and other Martyrs—La Gaborite—The Holy Candle—The King's Motives—France prepared for the Reform—Sturm's Sorrow—His Letter to Melanchthon— Luther's Sentiments—The King's Hatred—His Letter to the Germans 157 CHAPTER XIII. CALVIN AT STRASBURG, WITH ERASMUS, AND AT BASLE. (SUMMER AND AUTUMN 1534.)