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and few since have attained that beauty and facility of language
which he possessed.”
Etienne Pasquier (1528–1615).
Roman Catholic. Consellier et Avocat Général du Roy an la Chambre des
Comptes de Paris.
From Les Recherches de la France, p. 769 (Paris, 1633).
… “He [Calvin) wrote equally well in Latin and French, the latter
of which languages is greatly indebted to him for having enriched it
with an infinite number of fine expressions (enrichie d’une infinité
de beaux traits), though I could have wished that they had been
written on a better subject. In short, a man wonderfully conversant
with and attached to the books of the Holy Scriptures, and such,
that if he had turned his mind in the proper direction, he might have
been ranked with the most distinguished doctors of the Church.”
Jacques Auguste de Thou (Thuanus, 1553–1617).
President of the Parliament of Paris. A liberal Roman Catholic and one of
the framers of the Edict of Nantes.
From the 36th book of his Historia sui Temporis (from 1543–1607).
“John Calvin, of Noyon in Picardy, a person of lively spirit and
great eloquence (d’un esprit vif et d’une grande eloquence), f379 and
a theologian of high reputation among the Protestants, died of
asthma, May 20 [27], 1564, at Geneva, where he had taught for
twenty-three years, being nearly fifty-six years of age. Though he
had labored under various diseases for seven years, this did not
render him less diligent in his office, and never hindered him from
writing.”
De Thou has nothing unfavorable to say of Calvin.
TESTIMONIES OF LATER FRENCH WRITERS.
Charles Drelincourt (1595–1669).
“In that prodigious multitude of books which were composed by
Calvin, you see no words thrown away; and since the prophets and
apostles, there never perhaps was a man who conveyed so many