§ loll Hr:,i ,if {f,ii,r,i.
In 1.">.">S tho oitv ot" (lonoxa ostahlislu'd a hi^h school, ami lUv.a was I'alU'il. at ('alvin's su«>'n"oslion, to tho (lit'ok prohvsst>vship. Mui'h to tho ros^ivl o( \"\ro[ ami his iolli>aL;uos, ho Mi-oopii'd. Ho was iullnoiU'iHl In vaiious I'lmsidtM-ations, tlu> ohiol ot w liioh w 010 his dosiro to i>soapi' trom tho trouhlo oausod 1>\ \ irot's ostahlishmont ol" tho iJouovan idiuroh disoiplino. w hioh had lod io a lalliiiij out wiih l>oru. Lausanno's rulor, and tVom llu* omharrassnioiits still rosnltin<;' troiu his woU inoant atlompts at nnittn amou;:;- (ho rrotoslanis, and prohahly still moro bv his dosiro to labor at tho sido ot" C\ilvin, whom lu> so Li"i'oatlv rovortnl ami whoso diu"trim\s ho so viq;iu'oiKsly and himosth ilot\Muh>d. llo was honorably dismissod to (lonova and warmly oommondod io tho 0(MilidiMiot> ol' tho brothrtMi thoro. Whon on .Inno a, ir>r)0. tho Aoailomy was oponod. ho was installod as root»>r. Thus, in his fortioth voar. ho iMittMod np(m his tinal plaoo ot" rivsidonoo and u[u>n his tinal labors. 1 lonoiM'orw ard ho was insoparablo Irvun tho work ol" (.'alyin, and howoyor tar ami Iroipiontly ho mi^ht l;"o from (lonoya, it was thoro that lu» loft his hoart.
0\\ (.'alyin's nonhnation. Uo/a was ailmittod to i-iii/onship at (uMioNa. ami short h aftorwaids (Maiih IT. lool^ ho suo-
§ lt>9. BE/.A AT GKNKVA. 855
eeedtHl to the jvi^toraro of one of tho city ohurohos.' l>ui each new labor imposed uixmi him only demonstrated his capacity and teal. The Academy and the cons:rtvg;^tion rtoni^ islied under his ;issiduous oare. and Calvin found his new ally simply inviUuable. There w.is soon a fivsh call n^H^n his diplomacy. Anne du Bourg, president of the Parliament of Paris, boldly avowed his Pnnesitantism lx»fore Henry II., and was arrested. "When the news ivachcd Calviji. he ilcsjvitchcd Beza to the Elector Palatine, Fivderick 111., to inteivst this powerful prince. The result of his mission was a call on Du Boui"g from the Elector to IxH'ome professor of law in his university at HeidellxM\j. But the intervention availed nothing. Du Boui"g \>-i\s tried, and executed Dec. 'Jo, looO.
Shortly after his return, Beza was scut forth ap\in. .hily 20, 1560. The occasion w;\s, however, quite different. ri\e Prince de Conde. shorn of his power by the Guises, had lied to Nt5rac. He desiivd to attach to the Pivtcstant party his lnx-»ther, Antoine de Bourlxtn-VemU^me, kiui:: ^^f Navarre. Calvin had already, by letter, made some impression oi\ the iri-esolute and tickle king, but Condt^ induced his brother to send for Beza. who, with his eloquence and his courtly l>earing, quite captiNiited the king, who doolarcil that he would never hear the mass ag-ain, but would do all he could to advance the Protestant cause. His zeal was. however, of very short duration: for no sooner did his brother, the cardinal of Bourlx^n, arrive, than he and his queen, .leanne d'Albret, who afterwards was a sincere convert to Pivtcstantisni, heard mass in the convent of the Cordclici^ at Ncrao. Inv.a. seeing that Antoine would not hold oui. but was certain lo fall into the jHiwer of the Catholic party, quietly left him, Oct. IT, and after many dangei"S ix^ached Geneva early in November. The joui-ney had taken three weeks, and had. for the nu>st part, to be performed at night.-
1 l^ierre Virot had followed hiiu to Oonova, J.in. lo, lo50. aiul was oiio of his coUeaguos in eoolesiastioal service.
- Bauni. II. V2'2. rnfortunatcly Bozas account of it is lost.
856 THE KEFORMATIOjST in JFKENCH SWITZEULAXD.
§ 170. Beza at tlie Colloquy of Poissy}
Beza was now considered by all the French Reformed as their most distinguished orator, and next to Calvin their most celebrated theologian. This commanding position he had attained by many able services. When, therefore, the queenmother Catherine determined to hold a discussion between the French prelates and the most learned Protestant ministers, the Parisian pastors, seconded by the Prince of Cond^, the Admiral Coligny, and the king of Navarre, implored Beza to come, and to him was committed the leader..hip. At first he declined. But in answer to renewed and more urgent appeals he came, and on Aug. 22, 1561, he was again in Paris, for the first time since his precipitate flight, in October, 1548 — thirteen years before. The preliminary meeting was in the famous chateau of St. Germain-en-Laye, on the Seine, a few miles below Paris. There, on Aug. 23, he made his appearance. On the evening of that day he was summoned to the apartments of the king of Navarre, and in the presence of the queen-mother and other persons of the highest rank, he had his first encounter in debate with Cardinal Lorraine. The subject was transubstantiation. The Cardinal was no match for Beza, and after a weak defence, yielded the floor, saying that the doctrine should not stand in the wa}^ of a reconciliation. On Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1561, the parties to the Colloquy assembled in the nuns' refectory at Poissy, some three miles away. It was soon evident that there was not to be any real debate. The Catholic party had all the advantages and acted as sole judges.^ It was a foregone
1 B.aum, II. 1G8-419, Heppe, 104-148, Baird (/?/.se of the Huguenots), I. 493-577, give full, accurate, and interesting accounts of the famous Colloquy of Poissy, to which the reader is referred. Only the briefest mention can be made in this place.
2 The entirely proper request of the Protestants that the bishops should not be at the same time parties and judges, that the questions in debate should be decided solely by the Word of God in the originals, and that the minutes