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ft391 See the list and the profession in Lefranc, 216) sqq. He goes, however,
too far when he says (p. x. sq.): “Ce qui ressort d’une étude attentive
des faits, c’est que Calvin est sorti déja protestant de sa ville natale.
C’est dans ce centre qu’il puisa ses idées. Il y trouva tout d’abord
l’appui le plus ferme, ses amis les plus chauds et ses lieutenants les
plus dévoués. A un moment donné, la moitiéde la population se
déclara pour lui. Chose remarquable, un nombre considérable des ses
compatriots, et parmi eux les personnages les plus en vue, le suivirent
jusqu’àGenève. Durant toute sa vie, Calvin conserva d’actifs rapports
avec sa villenatale et ceux de ses fidèles qui y étaient restés.” Calvin
was not converted before 1532. See § 72.
ft392 Desmay (quoting from the Registres of Noyon, see Op. XXI. 189):
Jean Calvin obtient une portion du revenue de la chapelle de la
Gésine de la Vierge fondée dans la cathédrale de Noyon.” There were
four chaplains at Noyon. The first two had to say mass alternately
every morning. John Calvin, not being ordained, had to pay a priest to
take his place. Lefranc, p. 10. Zwingli received a papal pension even
after he had begun his work of reform. See above, § 8, p. 31 sq. This is
all wrong, but was not so considered at that time.
ft393 Beza says: “Quo loco [Pons Episcopi] constat Calvinum, antequam
Gallia excederet, nullis alioqui pontificiis ordinibus (unquam)
initiatum, aliquot ad populum conciones habuisse.” Op. XXI. 121.
“Unquam” is omitted in the text, but added in the notes. The French
biography of Colladon reads: “En laquelle cure il a depuis preschépar
fois, avans qu’il se retirast de France.” Ibid. 54.
ft394 This is the date given by Kampschulte (I. 223), Lefranc (p. 14), and
others. According to Opera, XXI. 189, Calvin was “Corderii
discipulus in Collegio de la Marche Lutetice,” in the year 1529; but in
that year he was a student of the university. There is some confusion in
the dates referring to the period of his studies in Paris.
ft395 Cordier was called “linguae, morum vitaeque magister.” He was the
Rollin of the sixteenth century. He wrote Rudimenta grammaticae; le
miroir de la jeunesse; commentarius puerorum, etc. See Lefranc, p.
62, and “Bulletin de la Soc. de l’hist. du Protest. français,” XVII. 449.
ft396 Beza-Colladon (XXI. 54): “Quant àses moeurs, il estoit sur tout fort
consciencieux, ennemi des vices, et fort adonnéau service de Dieu
qu’on appeloit pour lors: tellement que son coeur tendoit entierement