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JOHN CALVIN : LIFE, LEGACY AND THEOLOGY -<br />
PROF. M. M. NINAN<br />
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Affair of the Placards<br />
On the night of 17–18 October 1534, in Paris <strong>and</strong> four other cities in France, French<br />
Protestants put up placards, or posters, attacking the Catholic mass. They even posted one on<br />
the door of the bedchamber of François I in Amboise. The placards, which were printed in<br />
Neuchâtel, Switzerl<strong>and</strong>, were written by Antoine Marcourt, a pastor from Neuchatel. Marcourt<br />
was an ardent follower of Huldrych Zwingli, the most important reformer in the Swiss Protestant<br />
Reformation. Severe repression followed.<br />
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