re
leur doctrine et montrant et decouvrant ce qu'il y a d'erreur et
d'heresie." Le Laboureur, Add. to Castelnau, i. 732, 733.]

[Footnote 1064: Baum, Theod. Beza, ii. 175; Martin, Hist. de France, x.
84. The restriction of the invitation to Frenchmen is referred to by
Catharine in a letter of September 14 (Le Laboureur, Add., i. 733):
"Ayant ... accorde a ceux desdits Ministres _qui seroient nez en
France_, de comparoittre a Poissy."]

[Footnote 1065: The letters of La Riviere, Conde, Chatillon, and Antoine
of Navarre, are printed in Baum, App., 34, 35. The question naturally
arises, Why did not Calvin himself, who had been specially invited by
the Protestant princes, receive permission from the magistrates of
Geneva to go to Poissy? The truth is, that the Protestants of Paris "did
not see the possibility of his being present without grave peril, in
view of the rage conceived against him by the enemies of the Gospel, and
the disturbances his name alone would excite in the country were he
known to be in it." "In fact," they say in a letter but recently brought
to light, "the Admiral by no means favors your undertaking the journey,
and we have learned with certainty that the queen would not relish
seeing you there, frankly saying that she cannot pledge herself for your
safety in these parts, as she can for that of the rest. Meanwhile, the
enemies of the Gospel, on the other hand, say that they would be glad to
hear all the rest [of the reformers], but that, as for you, they could
not bring themselves to listen to you or look at you. You see, sir, in
what esteem you are held by these venerable prelates. I suspect that you
will not be very much grieved by it, nor consider yourself dishonored by
being thus regarded by such gentry!" La Riviere, in the name of all the
ministers of Paris, to Calvin, July 31, 1561, Bulletin, xvi. (1867),
602-604.]

[Footnote 1066: Letter of the Syndics and Council of Geneva to the Lords
of Zurich, July 21, 1561, and Charles IX.'s safe-conduct for Peter
Martyr, July 30, Baum, ii., App., 36, 37.]

[Footnote 1067: Le Laboureur, Add. to Castelnau, i. 724; cf. letter of
Card. de la Bourdaisiere to the Bishop of Rennes, Rome, August 23, 1561,
ibid., and of Chantonnay to Tisnacq, September 6, Mem. de Conde, ii.
18.]

[Footnote 1068: The papal nuncio, Prospero di Santa Croce, indeed,
represents the Cardinal of Lorraine as the originator of the perilous
scheme. When Lorraine and Tournon, whom the P