[331] See the interesting letter of a young Strasbourg student at Paris, Pierre Siderander, May 28, 1533, Herminjard, Correspondance des réformateurs, iii. 58, 59. The refrain of one placard,
"Au feu, au feu! c'est leur répère!
Faiz-en justice! Dieu l'a permys,"
gave Clément Marot occasion to reply in a couple of short pieces, the longer beginning:
"En l'eau, en l'eau, ces folz séditieux."
[332] Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta (Ed. of 1560), fol. 64.
[333] Bulletin, ix. 27, 28.
[334] Merle d'Aubigné, on the authority of the hostile Florimond de Ræmond, ascribes it to Farel. But the style and mode of treatment are quite in contrast with those of Farel's "Sommaire," republished almost precisely at this date; while many sentences are taken verbatim from another treatise, "Petit Traicte de l'Eucharistie," unfortunately anonymous, but which there is good reason to suppose was written by Marcourt. The author of the latter avows his authorship of the placard. See the full discussion by Herminjard, Correspondance des réformateurs, iii. 225, note, etc.
[335] Courault was foremost in his opposition. Crespin, Actiones et Monimenta, fols. 64, 65.
[336] "Qui estes pire que bestes, en vos badinages lesquels vous faites à l'entour de vostre dieu de paste, duquel vous vous jouez comme un chat d'une souris: faisans des marmiteux, et frappans contre vostre poictrine, après l'avoir mis en trois quartiers, comme estans bien marris, l'appelans Agneau de Dieu, et lui demandans la paix."
[337] This singular placard is given in extenso by Gerdesius, Hist. Evang. Renov., iv. (Doc.) 60-67; Haag, France prot., x. pièces justif., 1-6; G. Guiffrey, Cronique du Roy Françoys Ier, Appendix, 464-472.