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24 RISE AND PROGRESS OF HUGUENOTS.
with destruction of Montagris, where
she was then residing, if she did not expel
from it some Protestants. She replied: "If
you come, I will be present in the breach, and
I will try whether you
will have the boldness
to kill the daughter of a king. If you should
commit such a crime, heaven and earth wiU
avenge her death, on all your lives, even to the
children in their cradles." The Duke, to
whom she had espoused her daughter, Ann
of Este, paused and threatened her no more.
She was always exposed
to trials because she
resided between the two fires of France on
the one side, and Rome the seat of papacy on
the other. But she maintained her faith to the
last, and lived to see the Reformed Church of
France fully organized, separated from Rome,
and extending its influence over a large part
of her native country. She died June 12, 1575.
John During the same period, John Calvin was
Calvin, another person who wielded a great influence
in behalf of the new religion. Born in France
at Noyon, Picardy, July 10, 1509, when
eighteen years of age, by advice of his father,
he turned his attention to law and became
brilliant, receiving the Degree of Doctor of
Laws. After the death of his father in 1531,
he studied Greek and Protestantism under
Melchior Wolmar, and theology in Paris. In
the latter part of 1532, he was thoroughly converted
to the Reformed Religion. He preached
frequently in the meetings of the Protestants,
commonly closing with the words, "If God be
for us, who can be against us." He prepared
the inaugural address of Nicholas Cop, which
Cop delivered in 1533, before a large assembly.
The address was a plea for reform in the Established
Church, on a pure gospel basis. On