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ft1292 “Sire, c’est àla vérite àl’Église de Dieu, au nom de laquelle je parle,
d’endurer les coups, et non pas d’en donner. Mais aussi vous plaira-til
vous souvenir que c’est une enclume qui a usébeaucoup de
marteaux.” Quoted by Baird, II. 28; cf. Baum, II. 567.
ft1293 Baum says (II. 642) that it may with confidence be placed by the side
of the most eloquent passages in the French language. A judgment in
which Baird (II. 61) concurs.
ft1294 Baum, II. 711; Baird, II. 105.
ft1295 Baum, II. 714, 716.
ft1296 Baird, II. 118.
ft1297 Referring to the entire length of service in France, Baum says: “He
had been absent twenty-two months. They were the most wearing and
the most perilous, but also the most fruitful months in his life. For
during that period, with courage and dignity, with learning and
acuteness, with penetrating force and charming eloquence, he had
before princes and kings preached the gospel and exalted the name of
Christ. As the representation in this work has abundantly shown, amid
incessant struggles against unwise or faint-hearted friends, against
cunning and powerful foes, many times and most daringly at the risk of
his own life, he developed into one of the great leaders who procured
for the Reformed Church of France its soul-liberty, which, though, it is
true, less than it claimed should have been given, was still secured to it
by law.” With these words Baum (II. 731) closes his authoritative but,
alas, unfinished work upon Beza.
ft1298 Baird, II. 388. In the regent’s proclamation, Beza was described as
“homme de moïenne stature, ayant barbe àdemy blanche, et le visage
hault et large.”
ft1299 Also called by some Pierre.
ft1300 The whole number of the massacred is reckoned at about thirty
thousand. Cf. the monograph of Henri Bordier: La Saint-Barthélemy et
la critique moderne. Genève et Paris, 1879.
ft1301 Heppe, 248. Baird (II. 554-557) gives a graphic description of the
Genevese reception of the refugees, and shows how the city for so
doing was exposed to the revenge of Charles IX.
ft1302 Baird, The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre, I. 50.
ft1303 Baird, ibid., I. 213 sq.