[605] 'The Duke of Wyttemberg lately restored by his and his good brother's meanes.'—State Papers, vii. p. 568.
[606] Sleidan, i. pp. 366-368. Ranke, iii. pp. 465-468.
[607] 'Soll aussen bleiben.'—Sattler, iii. p. 129. Sleidan, iii. p. 369. Ranke, iii. p. 481.
[608] The house of Wurtemberg boasts its descent from Emeric, mayor of the palace under Clovis.
[609] Hist. of the Ref. of the Sixteenth Century, vol. i. bk. iii. ch. ii.
[610] 'Snepfius Stuttgardiæ pastor ecclesias in illo ducatu reformavit.'—Melch. Adami Vitæ Germanorum Theologorum, p. 322.
[611] Hist. of the Ref. of the Sixteenth Century, vol. iv. bk. xvi. ch. x.
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CONFERENCE AT THE LOUVRE FOR THE UNION OF TRUTH AND CATHOLICITY IN THE CHURCH.
(1534.)
THE Wurtemberg affair being ended, Du Bellay thought of nothing but his great plan; that is, a Reformation according to the ideas of the Queen of Navarre—the combination of catholicism and truth by the union of France and Germany. They were not the only persons who entertained such thoughts: Roussel, Bucer, and many other evangelical christians asked themselves whether the great success obtained in Germany would not decide the reformation of France. Intercourse was much increased between the two countries. Frenchmen and Germans were continually crossing and recrossing the Rhine.