Chapter III

1523-1525.

FRANCIS I. AND MARGARET OF ANGOULEME--EARLY REFORMATORY
MOVEMENTS AND STRUGGLES 99
Francis I. and Margaret of Angouleme 99
The King's Chivalrous Disposition 100
Appreciates Literary Excellence 101
Contrast with Charles V. 101
His Religious Convictions 102
His Fear of Innovation 102
His Loose Morality 103
Margaret's Scholarly Attainments 104
Her Personal Appearance 105
Her Participation in Public Affairs 106
Her First Marriage to the Duke of Alencon 106
Obtains a Safe-Conduct to visit her Brother 106
Her Second Marriage, to Henry, King of Navarre 107
Bishop Briconnet's Mystic Correspondence 108
Luther's Teachings solemnly condemned by the University 108
Melanchthon's Defence 109
Regency of Louise de Savoie 109
The Sorbonne suggests Means of extirpating the "Lutheran
Doctrines" (Oct. 7, 1523) 110
Wide Circulation of Luther's Treatises 112
Francois Lambert, of Avignon 112
Life among the Franciscans 113
Lambert, the first French Monk to embrace the Reformation 113
He is also the First to Marry 114
Jean Chatellain at Metz 114
Wolfgang Schuch at St. Hippolyte 115
Farel at Montbeliard 117
Pierre Caroli lectures on the Psalms 118

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The Heptameron of the Queen of Navarre 119