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civil magistracy, threats to the ministers of God, and “crime de leze
majeste meritant pugnition corporelle.”
ft745 The sources for the case of Gruet are the acts of the criminal process
and sentence, printed in Opera, XII. 563-568 (in French); letters of
Calvin to Viret, July 2, 24, 1547 (in Opera, XII. 545, 559, in Bonnet
II. 108 and 114); Calvin’s report on the blasphemous book of Gruet, in
Opera, XIII. 568-572 (in French, also printed in Henry, II. 120, and in
Letters by Jules Bonnet, French ed., I. 311; English ed., II. 254); Reg.
du Conseil, July 25, 1547, and May 22, 1550, noticed in Annal. 409,
465.—Of modern writers, see Henry, (II. 410, 439, 441 sqq.; abridged
in Stebbing’s translation, II. 64 sqq., without the Beilage); Audin, ch.
XXXVI. (pp. 396 sqq. of the English translation); Dyer, 213 sqq.; and
Stähelin, I. 399 sqq.
ft746 Oct. 21, 1540. A day afterwards, Dufour was appointed by the
Council, and went in his place. Annal. 267. See above, p. 430.
ft747 Beza calls him “vanissimus, sed audax et ambitiosus “ (XXI. 138).
Audin, the patron of all the enemies of Calvin, describes Perrin as “a
man of noble nature, who wore the sword with great grace, dressed in
good taste, and conversed with much facility; but a boaster at table and
at the Council, where he deafened every one with his boastful
loquacity, his fits of self-love, and his theatrical airs … . As to the rest,
like all men of this stamp, he had an excellent heart, was devoted as a
friend, with cool blood, and patriotic even to extremes. At table it was
his delight to imitate the Reformer, elongating his visage, winking his
eyes, and assuming the air of an anchorite of the Thebaid” (p. 390).
Perrin’s chief defender is the younger Galiffe.
ft748 “Prodigiosa furia.” Letter to Farel, Sept. 1, 1546 (in Opera, XII. 377
sq., and Bonnet, II. 56). In the same letter he says: “She shamelessly
undertakes the defence of all crimes.” She did not spare Calvin’s wife,
and calumniously asserted among her own friends that Idelette must
have been a harlot because Calvin confessed, at the baptism of his
infant, that she and her former husband had been Anabaptists. So
Calvin reports to Farel, Aug. 21, 1547 (in Opera, XII. 580 sq.; Bonnet,
II. 124). Audin apologizes for Francesca, as “one of those women
whom our old Corneille would have taken for heroines; excitable,
choleric, fond of pleasure, enamoured of dancing, and hating Calvin as
Luther hated a monk” (p. 390).