A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2)

by Thomas M. Lindsay

[192] Sources in addition to those mentioned on p. 136: Lettres inédites de Diane de Poitiers, publiées avec une introduction et des notes par G. Guiffrey (Paris, 1866); Mémoires de Gaspard de Saulx-Tavannes, 1530-73 (published in the Collection of Michaud and Poujoulat, viii.); Mémoires de François de Guise (in the same collection, vi.); Lettres de Catherine de Médicis and Papiers d’État du Cardinal de Granvelle (in the Collection des Documents inédits de l’Histoire de France); Lettres d’Antoine de Bourbon et de Jeanne d’Albret (in the publications of the Société de l’Histoire de France); Les Œuvres complètes de Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme (edit. by L. Lalanne for the Société de l’Histoire de France, important for the persons and morals of the times); C. Weiss, La Chambre ardente, étude sur la liberté de Conscience en France, sous François I. et Henri II. 1540-50 (Paris, 1889). Layard, Dispatches of Michele Suriano and Marcantonio Barbaro, Venetian Ambassadors at the Court of France (Lymington, 1891, pub. by the Huguenot Society of London). Teulet, Relations politique de la France et de l’Espagne avec l’Écosse (Paris, 1862); and Papiers d’État relatifs a l’Histoire de l’Écosse (Bannatyne Club, Paris, 1851); Correspondance du Cardinal de Granvelle (Brussels, 1877-96); Calendar of State Papers, Venetian, 1558-80 (London, 1890, etc.)

Later Books in addition to those mentioned on p. 136: A. de Ruble, Le Traité de Cateau-Cambrésis (Paris, 1889); A. W. Whitehead, Gaspard Coligny, Admiral of France (London, 1905); the Bulletin historique et littéraire de l’histoire du protestantisme français, edited by Weiss, is a mine of information on all matters connected with the Reformation in France. A. de Ruble, Antoine de Bourbon et Jeanne d’Albret (Paris, 1881-82), and Le Colloque de Poissy (Paris, 1889); F. Decrue, Anne de Montmorency (Paris, 1885-89).

[193] The Parlements were the highest judicial courts in France. By far the most important was the Parlement of Paris, whose jurisdiction extended over Picardie, Champagne, l’Ile-de-France, l’Orléanais, Maine, Touraine, Anjou, Poitou, Aunis, Berri, La Bourbonnais, Auvergne, and La Marche—almost the half of France. The other Parlements in the time of Henry II. were those of Normandy, Brittany, Burgundy, Dauphiné, Provence, Languedoc, Guyenne, and, up to 1559, Chambéry and Turin. The Parlements are frequently mentioned under the names of the towns in which they met; thus the Parlement of Normandy is called the Parlement of Rouen; that of Provence, the Parlement of Aix; that of Languedoc, the Parlement of Toulouse.

[194] Weiss, La Chambre ardente, étude sur la liberté de conscience en France, sous François I. et Henri II., 1540-50 (Paris, 1889), is very valuable from the collection of documents which it contains. Crespin’s Histoire des martyrs, etc., when tested by the official documents now accessible, has been found to be almost invariably correct, and without exaggeration. Weiss, “Une Semaine de la Chambre ardente” (1-8 Oct. 1549), in the Bulletin historique et littéraire de la société de l’histoire du protestantisme français for 1899; and Des cinq escoliers sortis de Lausanne brulez a Lyon (Geneva, 1878).

[195] Institutio Christianæ Religionis, IV. iii. iv.

[196] Athanase Coquerel fils, Précis de l’histoire de l’église réformée de Paris (Paris, 1862)—valuable for the numerous official documents in the appendix.

[197] Antoine de Chandieu, Histoire des persécutions et martyrs de l’Église de Paris, depuis l’an 1537 (Lyons, 1563).

[198] Œuvres complètes de Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme, edited by L. Lalanne for the Société de l’Histoire de France (11 vols., Paris, 1864-82), ix. 161-62.

[199] It is more probable that only twelve Churches were represented—Paris, Saint-Lô, Rouen, Dieppe, Angers, Orléans, Tours, Poitiers, Saintes, Marennes, Châtellerault, and Saint-Jean-d’Angely. H. Dieterlen, La Synode générale de Paris, 1559 (Montauban, 1873): this was published as a thesis for the Theological Faculty (Protestant) of Montauban.

[200] The Confession will be found in Schaff, The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches (London, 1877), pp. 356 ff.; Müller, Die Bekenntnisschriften der reformierten Kirche (1903), p. 221; the various texts are discussed at p. xxxiii.