[67] Froment married (1529) Marie Dentière, who had been abbess of a convent in Tournai, and had been expelled for her Evangelical opinions. She was a learned lady, a friend of the Queen of Navarre, who sometimes preached, according to the nun Jeanne de Jussie, and made many converts. She wrote a piquant epistle to the Queen of Navarre, exposing the intrigues which drove Calvin, Farel, and Coraut from Geneva. A portion of this very rare Epistle is printed by Herminjard, Correspondance, etc. v. 295 ff.
[68] Froment, Les Actes et Gestes merveilleux de la cité de Genève (ed. of 1854 by G. Revillod), pp. 9 and 12-15.
[69] The authorities of Freiburg in a letter to Geneva actually called this Dominican monk a “Lutheran preacher”; cf. their letter given in Herminjard, Correspondance, iii. 15 f.
[70] Ibid. iii. 38, f.
[71] The text of the decree is given in Herminjard, iii. 41 n.
[72] Jeanne de Jussie, Le Levain du Calvinisme, p. 53; Froment, Actes et Gestes, etc. 48-51.
[73] For the affair of Werly, see the letter of the Evangelicals of Geneva to the Council of Bern, given in Herminjard, Correspondance, etc., and the notes of the editor (iii. 46 ff.).
[74] After the defeat of his party by the combined efforts of Freiburg and Bern, the Bishop had quitted Geneva on August 1st, 1527; he returned there on July 1st, 1533, but left again after a fortnight’s residence (July 14th, 1533), disgusted, he said, at an act of iconoclasm.
[75] The priests of Geneva were notoriously turbulent. We read of at least five riots which they headed. The canons were worse. Pierre Werly had attempted the assassination of Farel on October 3rd, 1532 (Jeanne de Jussie, Le Levain du Calvinisme, p. 50); he had taken an active part in the riots caused by the placards in 1532.
[76] Herminjard, Correspondance, etc. iii. 38.