The Huguenot Bartholomew Dupuy and his descendants

26 RISE AND PROGRESS OF HUGUENOTS.
introd dedicated them to the King. The demand for
copies was greater than the supply. The Sorbonne
censured the book, but the King and
Court carried it against all opposition. It became
so popular that everywhere and by all
classes the Psalms of Marot might be heard at
all times sung to lively tunes; and for a while
they superceded the national songs. Encouraged
by his first edition, he paraphrased
thirty more Psalms in the same measure, and
printed the fifty in one volume in Geneva in
1543, with a preface by Calvin, which was
widely circulated. After this Beza versified
the remaining Psalms, which were printed
with Marot ^s in one volume. Calvin then per-
suaded two accomplished musicians to set the
whole to music. In a little time ten thousand
copies were sold. People sang them in private,
at meals, and in their social circles, and
with whatever motive, the effect was good to
their conscience. In 1553, the Reformed introduced
the use of these Psalms in their
worship, which was the cause of their rejection
by the Romanists. After that, to sing one
of them was evidence of a desire to reform the
Roman Catholic Church. But their rejection
was too late. The Psalms had already done
their work, which can never be estimated for
the good of pure religion. Marot died in 1554.
During the first four years of the reign of
Henr}^ II., nothing in the way of persecution
transpired worthy of special mention. He
followed in the wake of his father, encouraging
the Reformation in Germany to weaken
his father's rival, Charles V., while he perse-
1551. cuted it in his own kingdom. He issued the
chaielu- ^^V^* 0^ Chateaubriand, June 27, 1551, which
briand. enjoined upon the civil and ecclesiastical