Baudichon de la Maisonneuve had succeeded beyond his expectations. Not only had the prisoners been rescued from the unlawful power of the bishop, but the prelate himself had disappeared. A few huguenots, waving their _montres de feu_, had been sufficient to deliver Geneva. Not a drop of blood had been shed. ‘As at the sound of the trumpets of Gideon, and at the sight of his lamps,’ said the evangelists, ‘the Amalekites and the Midianites fled during the night, so did the bishop and his followers flee away at the sound of the arms and at the sight of the fire.’[400] Early in the morning of the 14th of July, the news of the bishop’s departure circulated through the city. The catholic members of the council, deserted by a perjured prince, felt themselves unable henceforth to oppose the torrent which was advancing with irresistible power. ‘All the catholics,’ says Sister Jeanne, ‘were sorely grieved.’ The pope blamed the bishop for abandoning his church, and reproached him for his cowardice.[401] ‘That miserable city, having lost its prince and pastor,’ said people in Italy, ‘will become the asylum of every villain and the throne of heresy.’[402] But what caused so much sorrow to the papists was the source of immense joy to the evangelicals. They contended that the prince by running away abdicated his usurped power, and that the citizens resumed their rights.[403] The sun of Geneva was setting, according to the old style (that of the Roman court); but according to the new (that of the Gospel), it was rising; and Geneva, illumined by its rays, was to communicate that divine light to others. The 14th of July, 1533, witnessed in Geneva the fall of that hybrid power[404] which claims to hold two swords in its hand. Since then other bishop-kings have also disappeared, even in the most catholic countries; and the last, that of Rome, totters on his pedestal. The people of Geneva, from the time when they lost sight of that shameless and pitiless prelate, ceased to care about him, and never asked after him. They even invented a by-word, in use to this day; and when they wish to speak of a man for whom they feel a thorough indifference, they say: _Je ne m’en soucie pas plus que de Baume_ (I do not care a straw about him).[405] Footnote 382: ‘Une bonne chose et une bonne loi.’ MS. du procès inquisitionnel de Lyon (Archives de Berne), pp. 200-202. Footnote 383: About 1836. Footnote 384: Registre du Conseil, _ad locum_. Footnote 385: ‘Et illic en faire à son plaisir.’ Footnote 386: ‘Ni tirer ni nager’ (neither pull nor steer), alluding to the peculiar mode of rowing employed on the lake. Footnote 387: Berne MSS., _Hist. Helvet._ v. p. 125. Footnote 388: ‘About eight years ago,’ says an authority of 1534 (MS. du procès inquisitionel de Lyon). The reading of the MS. is _Toquer_, which is probably not the correct spelling of the German name. Footnote 389: ‘Ou du moins était-ce comme rien.’ Footnote 390: