The government exerted itself to find substitutes for the two exiles. The states of Berne and Neuchâtel gave up to it Jean Morand, pastor at Cully,[738] on the shores of the lake of Geneva, and Antoine Marcourt, of Lyons, pastor of Neuchâtel, who were installed about the end of June. The council determined to give them, considering their age and their large families, three hundred Genevese florins;[739] the two Genevese each had two hundred and fifty florins. We became acquainted with Marcourt at the synod of Lausanne. He had published several treatises on the Eucharist, on the mass; to him likewise were attributed the famous placards of 1534, which Florimond Raemond believes to have been the work of Farel. The governor and councils of Neuchâtel, in resigning Marcourt to Geneva, declared, June 18, ‘that they had always found him a man of peace, one who desired, and to the utmost of his power maintained, peace and public tranquillity.’ This character seems hardly like that of the author of the _Placards_, one of the most violent writings of the sixteenth century, which were pronounced by the Roman Catholics[740] to be filled with ‘execrable blasphemies and horrible threats against the king,’ and which gave rise to that bloody persecution by the Valois and the Bourbons of which the reformed Christians were the victims for more than two centuries. However, we must confess that pacific men are not always consistent. It would seem that Marcourt was not so much a man of peace as the people of Neuchâtel had said; at least if we take literally what Calvin says. ‘How our successors will demean themselves,’ he wrote on August 4 to Farel, ‘is a point on which we can form an opinion from their first proceedings. They break off by their irritable temper every promise of peace, and they seem to suppose that the best thing they have to do is to tear to pieces both in public and in private the reputation which we enjoyed, and to make us as hateful as possible.’[741] Calvin is especially severe, perhaps too much so, with regard to the two Genevese ministers. There was, however, some truth in the last touch in the picture which he drew of them for Bullinger: ‘Both of them are very ignorant, and when they open their mouths, it is to rave. This does not prevent them from assuming an insolent pride.’[742] [Sidenote: ACCUSATIONS.]