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and Binder, and translated by William L. R. Cates. The work gives the
history of the Reformation in Geneva down to 1542, and of the other
Reformed Churches to the middle of the sixteenth century. It is,
therefore, incomplete, but, as far as it goes, the most extensive,
eloquent, and dramatic history of the Reformation by an enthusiastic
partisan of the Reformers, especially Calvin, in full sympathy with their
position and faith, except on the union of Church and State and the
persecution of heretics. The first division, which is devoted to the
Lutheran Reformation till 1530, had an extraordinary circulation in
England and America. Ranke, with his calm, judicial temperament,
wondered that such a book could be written in the nineteenth century.
(See Preface to vol. VII. p. vi, note.)
Étienne Chastel (Professor of Church History in the University of
Geneva, d. 1882): Histoire du Christianisme. Paris, 1882, 5 vols. Tom.
IV. 66 sqq. treats of the Swiss Reformation.
G. P. Fisher: The Reformation. New York, 1873, ch. VII. pp. 192–
241.
Philippe Godet (son of Frederic, the commentator): Histoire littéraire
de la Suisse française. Neuchâtel and Paris, 1890. Ch. II. 51–112
treats of the Reformers (Farel, Viret, Froment, Calvin, and Beza).
Virgile Rossel: Histoire littéraire de la Suisse romande. Genève (H.
Georg), 1890, 2 vols. The first vol. Des origines jusqu’au XVIII siècle.
The Histories of the Reformation in France usually give also an
account of the labors of Farel, Calvin, and Beza; e.g. the first
volume of GOTTLOB VON POLENZ: Geschichte des französischen
Calvinismus (Gotha, 1857 sqq.).
§ 59. THE CONDITION OF FRENCH SWITZERLAND BEFORE
THE REFORMATION.
The losses of the Reformation in German Switzerland were more than
made up by the gains in French Switzerland; that is, in the three Cantons,
Vaud, Neuchàtel, and Geneva. f332 Protestantism moved westward. Calvin
continued, improved, and completed the work of Zwingli, and gave it a
wider significance. Geneva took the place of Zürich, and surpassed in
influence the city of Zwingli and the city of Luther. It became “the
Protestant Rome,” from which proceeded the ideas and impulses for the