From Rise of Protestantism in France to Publication of the Institutes - James Aitken Wylie

Bourges, whose name, destined to fill Christendom
in years to come, was then all but unknown, went
forth, endowed with a double portion of Berquin's
spirit, to take up the work of him who had just
fallen, and to spread throughout France and the
world that truth which lived when Berquin died.
How Calvin came to be in Paris at this moment
we have already explained. Tidings that his father
had died suddenly called him to Noyon. It cost him
doubtless a wrench to sever himself from the work
of the Gospel which he was preaching, not in vain,
in the capital of Berry and the neighboring towns;
still, he did not delay, but set out at once, taking
Paris in his way. The journey from Paris to Noyon
was performed, we cannot but think, in great
weariness of heart. Behind him was the stake of
Berquin, in whose ashes so many hopes lay buried;
before him was the home of his childhood, where
no father now waited to welcome him; while all
round, in the horizon of France, the clouds were
rolling up, and giving but too certain augury that
the Reformation was not to have so prosperous a
career in his native land as, happily, at that hour it
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