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

1617.
6. See very lengthened accounts of the debates
and whole proceedings of this Conference in
Beza's Histoire des Eglises Reformees au
Royaume de France, tom. 1, pp. 308-390;
Lille, 1841; and Laval's History of the
Reformation in France, volume 1, pp. 482-587;
Lond., 1737.
7. The important part played by colporteurs in the
evangelization of France is attested by an edict
of Francis II, 1559, in which he attributes the
troubles of his kingdom to "certain preachers
from Geneva," and also to "the malicious
dispersion of condemned books brought from
thence, which had infected those of the
populace who, through want of knowledge and
judgment, were unable to discern doctrines."
(Memoires de Conde, tom. 1, p. 9; Londres,
1743.)
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