ard the parliament, i. 38;
and university, i. 39;
his acquirements overrated, i. 42;
patronage of art, ib.;
founds the College Royal, i. 43;
interferes for Lefevre, i. 72;
his personal appearance, i. 99;
character and tastes, i. 100, 101;
he is said miraculously to cure the king's evil, ib.;
contrasted with Charles V., i. 101;
his religious convictions, and fear of innovation, i. 102;
loose morals, i. 103, 104;
anxiety for papal support, i. 104;
at Madrid, abdicates in favor of the dauphin, i. 107;
his captivity, i. 122;
he violates his pledges to Charles V., i. 134;
his pecuniary straits, i. 135;
assembles the notables ib.;
promises to prove himself "Very Christian," i. 137;
treats with the Germans, i. 147;
and with Henry VIII., i. 148;
his interview with Clement VII., ib.;
declines the Pope's proposal of a crusade, i. 149;
rejects the intercession of the Bernese, i. 155;
his letter to the Bishop of Paris ordering him to authorize
two counsellors of parliament to proceed against the
"Lutherans,", i. 156;
favorably impressed by Melanchthon's plan of reconciliation, i. 162;
his anger when a copy of the placard of 1534 is posted on his
bedchamber door, i. 167;
which is enhanced by political considerations, i. 168;
his disgraceful edict abolishing the art of printing i. 169;
the edict suspended, i. 170;
orders an expiatory procession, i. 173;
he takes part in it with great apparent devoutness, i. 175;
his memorable speech in the episcopal palace, i. 176;
his declaration of Coucy, July 16, 1535, extending a partial
forgiveness, i. 179;
is said to have been begged by Paul III. to moderate his
cruelty, i. 180;
his clemency dictated by policy, i. 181;
his letter to the German princes in extenuation of his
conduct, i. 182;
formally invites Melanchthon, i. 184;
acquiesces in the Sorbonne's condemnation of Melanchthon's
articles, i. 188;
his representations through Du Bellay to the German princes at
Smalcald, i. 188;
Du Bellay makes, in his name, a Protestant confession, i. 189;
he does not deceive the Germans, i. 190;
his edict of Lyons, May 31, 1536, i. 192;
rejects the intercession of Strasbourg, Zurich, and Berne, ib.;
his orthodoxy no longer questioned, i. 194;
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