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“Für den Empfang eines Fürsten hätte nicht mehr Theilnahme
bewiesen werden können …. Am 13 ten Sept. hielt er unter dem Jubel der
Bevölkerung seinen feierlichen Einzug in Genf.” Perhaps he followed
here Stähelin, who says (I. 316): “Mit unglaublicher Begeisterung, wie
im Triumphe, wurde er von dem Folk und dem Magistrate
empfangen.” There is no record of such a triumphant public entrance.
See Beza and Colladon in the next note. Roget and Merle d’Aubigné
(VII. 62 sq.) deny the fact of a popular ovation.
ft623 Beza (XXI. 131): “Calvinus XIII. Septembris anno Domini MDXLI
Genevam regressus est, summa cum universi populi ac senatus
inprimis singulare Dei erga se beneficium serio tum agnoscentis
congratulatione.” Colladon (XXI. 64): “Calvin fut tellement receu de
singulière affection par ce poure peuple recognoissant so faute, et qui
estoit affaméd’ouir son fidele Pasteur, qu’on ne cessa point qu’il ne
fut arrestépour tousiours.”
ft624 It was the house of Sieur de Fresneville, between the house of
Bonivard, on the west, and that of Abbé de Bonmont, on the east,
where Calvin lived from 1543 till his death. But as this house was not
ready on his arrival, he lodged for a while in an adjoining house of the
abbot of Bonmont, which was rebuilt in 1708 (No. 13 Rue des
Chanoines, now called Rue de Calvin) and passed into the possession
of Adrien Naville, president of the Société Évangélique. The second
house (No. 11) remained a Reformed parsonage till 1700; in 1834 it
was acquired by the Roman Catholic clergy, who assigned it to the
Sisters of Mercy of Vincent de Paul, but it is now owned by the State.
See Th. Heyer, De la maison de Calvin, in the “Mémoires
d’Archéologie,” IX. 391-408. I have consulted Mr. Ed. Naville and Mr.
Ed. Favre of Geneva, who confirmed the above statements.
ft625 “Cinq cens florins, douze coppes de froment et deux bossot de vin.”
Annal. 284. Five hundred florins of Geneva were equivalent to about
four thousand francs at the present standard of value. This is the
estimate of Franklin and of Merle d’Aubigné, VII. 69. Galiffe (Quelq.
pages d’Hist. p. 89, as quoted by Kampschulte, I. 388, note 3)
estimates Calvin’s annual income at 9 to 10,000 francs of our money
($2000). A syndic at that time received only 100, a counsellor 25
francs, according to the same authority.
ft626 Herminjard, VII. 289, note: “On paya au voiturier, Emoz Daiz, pour
22journées 7florins, 4sols.”