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

However, the fame he shunned did, the more he
fled from it, but the more pursue him. His name
was mentioned in the presence of the Queen of
Navarre. Margaret must needs see the young
evangelist.[2] We tremble as we see Calvin enter
the Louvre to be presented at court. They who are
in king's houses wear "soft raiment," and learn to
pursue middle courses. If Calvin is to be all to the
Church he must be nothing to kings and queens.
All the more do we tremble at the ordeal he is
about to undergo when we reflect that, in
combination with his sternness of principle and
uprightness of aim, there are in Calvin a tenderness
of heart, and a yearning, not for praise, but for
sympathy, which may render him susceptible to the
blandishments and flatteries of a court. But God
went with him to the palace. Calvin's insight
discovered even then, what afterwards became
manifest to less penetrating observers, that, while
Margaret's piety was genuine, it was clouded
nevertheless by mysticism, and her opinions,
though sound in the main, were too hesitating and
halting to compass a full Reformation of the
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