Protestantism in France From Death of Francis I to Edict of Nantes - James Aitken Wylie

Beza, "like the Lutherans of Germany, admit
consubstantiation?" "And do you," rejoined Beza,
"like them, deny transubstantiation?" The cardinal
thought to create a little bad blood between the
Protestants of Germany and the Protestants of
France, and so deprive the latter of the assistance
which he feared might be sent them from their coreligionists
of the Fatherland. But his policy of
"divide and conquer" did not prosper.[6]
It was clear that no fair discussion, and no
honest adjustment of the controversy on the basis
of truth, had from the first been intended.
Nevertheless, the Colloquy had prompted the
inquiry, "Is Romanism simply a corruption of the
Gospel, or rather, has it not changed in the course
of the ages into a system alien from and
antagonistic to Christianity, and can there in that
case be a possibility of reconciling the two faiths?"
The conference bore fruit also in another direction.
It set the great Chancellor de l'Hopital to work to
solve the problem, how the two parties could live
in one country. To unite them was impossible; to
exterminate one of them--Rome's short and easy
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