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

negotiate an alliance with them. His first
ambassador was a fool,[4] his second was a wise
man, Du Bellay,[5] brother to the Archbishop of
Paris, than whom there was no more accomplished
man in all France.
Du Bellay did what diplomatists only
sometimes do, brought heart as well as head to his
mission, for he wished nothing so much as to see
his master and his kingdom of France cast off the
Pope, and displaying their colors alongside those of
Protestant Germany, sail away on the rising tide of
Protestantism. Du Bellay told the princes that he
had his master's express command to offer them his
assistance in their great enterprise, and was
empowered "to arrange with them about the share
of the war expenses which his majesty was ready to
pay." This latter proposal revealed the cloven foot.
What was uppermost in the mind of the King of
France was to avenge the defeat at Pavia; hence his
eagerness for war. The League of Schmalkald
bound the German princes to stand on the
defensive only; they were not to strike unless
Charles or some other should first strike at them.
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