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ft349 Six years afterwards he became the father of a son, his only child, who
survived him three years. John Knox surpassed him in matrimonial
enterprise: he married, as a widower of fifty-eight, a Scotch lass of
sixteen, of royal name and blood (Margaret Stuart), who bore him
three daughters, and two years after his death (1572) contracted a
second marriage. If Erasmus had lived, he might have pointed to these
examples in confirmation of his witticisms on the marriages of Luther
and Oecolampadius.
ft350 Calvin, Opera, XX. 302, where this epistola is called “ultima omnium
et valedictoria.”
ft351 La France Prot., VI. 409: “Toute sa succession se monta à120 livres,
preuve de son entière desintéressement.” Godet, l.c, p. 185: “Calvin
mourant ne laissa que 125 écus de fortune àses héritiers. Le petit
trésor de Farel trouvéaprès sa mort se montait à120 livres du pays.”
ft352 See a list of 18 in Schmidt, l.c., p. 38; a more complete one (24) in La
France Protest., VI. 410-414. Herminjard, in the 7 vols. of his
Correspond. des Réf, gives 107 of his letters, and 242 letters addressed
to him.
ft353 The acts of this disputation are printed in Vulliemin’s Chroniqueur en
l’an 1536, No. 17, pp. 315-326. The chapter of Lausanne protested,
pp. 316, 325.
ft354 See his letter of submission to Pope Paul III., June, 1537, in
Herminjard, IV. 248 sqq.
ft355 C. Schmidt, in his monograph on Viret, pp. 56-71, gives a list of them
with extracts. Comp. Phil. Godet, l.c. 70 sqq.
ft356 “Froment,” says Farel, “a dégénéréen ivraie (ivresse).”
ft357 Michelet (Hist. de France, XI. 91): “Nul livre plus amusant que la
chronique de Froment, hardi colporteur de la grâce, naif et mordant
satirique que les dévotes génevoises, plaisamment dévoilées par lui,
essayèrent de jeter au Rhône.”
ft358 A plain stone, with the letters “J. C.,” is pointed out to the stranger as
marking his resting-place in the cemetery of Plein Palais outside of the
city, but it is not known on what authority. He himself especially
enjoined that no monument should mark his grave.
ft359 With this judgment the Strassburg editors of his works agree, by
calling Calvin “theologorum principem et antesignanum” (Opera, I.