Registre du Conseil du 24 Décembre, 1534. La sœur Jeanne, _Levain du Calvinisme_, p. 104. Footnote 666: MS. de Roset, liv. iii. ch. xx. Registre du Conseil des 5, 28 Janvier, 20 et 21 Février, 1535. MS. de Gautier. Footnote 667: Registre du Conseil des 29 Décembre, 1534; 8, 12, 15 Janvier, 1535. Footnote 668: ‘My beauty attracted many suitors who sought to seduce me. When they saw that their flattering could not make me faithless, they had recourse to threats, and at last prepared to overcome me by force. Then I, unwilling to set my beauty above my virtue, destroyed with inflexible hand my temples, gardens, and houses, and converted them into ramparts, to keep my insensate suitors at a distance. I destroyed my beauty to preserve my honor. I was once Geneva the fair; now I am called Geneva the valiant.’ These lines are preserved in Gautier’s manuscript history. CHAPTER XVI. THE KING OF FRANCE INVITES MELANCTHON TO RESTORE UNITY AND TRUTH. (END OF 1534 TO AUGUST 1535.) While the work of the Reformation appeared exposed to great dangers in a small city of the Alps, it had in the eyes of the optimists chances of success in two of the greatest countries of Europe—France and Italy. The two finest geniuses of the reform, Melancthon and Calvin, had been summoned to those two countries respectively. Luther, their superior by the movements of his heart and the simplicity of his faith, was inferior to them as a theologian, and they probably surpassed him in their capacity to comprehend in their thoughts all nations and all churches.