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Updated: June 16, 2025
Theodore de Beze wore the dress of a courtier, black silk stockings, low shoes with straps across the instep, tight breeches, a black silk doublet with slashed sleeves, and a small black velvet mantle, over which lay an elegant white fluted ruff.
Perhaps this manoeuvre will so compromise her that she will be forced to remain on our side." Theodore de Beze caught the hem of Calvin's cassock and kissed it. "Oh! my master," he exclaimed, "how great you are!" "Unfortunately, my dear Theodore, I am dying.
"Perhaps you will call it a crime in me," replied the admiral, jesting, "whereas if you had done it yourself you would make a merit of it." "They say that the Sieur Calvin is very ill," remarked the Cardinal de Lorraine to Theodore de Beze. "I hope no one suspects us of giving him his broth." "Ah! monseigneur; it would be too great a risk," replied de Beze, maliciously.
We will here anticipate the events on which this Study is based, and close the history of Theodore de Beze, who went to Paris with Chaudieu.
"But surely you will allow some little authority to the king of France?" said Catherine, smiling. "And much to the queen," said de Beze, bowing low. "You will find," continued the queen, "that our most submissive subjects are heretics." "Ah, madame!" cried Coligny, "we will indeed endeavor to make you a noble and peaceful kingdom! Europe has profited, alas! by our internal divisions.
"There is one thing to be considered," said the queen. "The Bourbons may fool the Huguenots and the Sieurs Calvin and de Beze may fool the Bourbons, but are we strong enough to fool Huguenots, Bourbons, and Guises? In presence of three such enemies it is allowable to feel one's pulse." "But they have not the king," said Albert de Gondi. "You will always triumph, having the king on your side."
"I had supposed," said Chaudieu to the Prince de Conde, the King of Navarre, and Admiral Coligny, as they left the hall, "that a great State matter would be treated more seriously." "Oh! we know very well what you want," exclaimed the Prince de Conde, exchanging a sly look with Theodore de Beze. The prince now left his adherents to attend a rendezvous.
He rubbed his hands, and the character of his joy was so evidently ferocious that de Beze shuddered: he saw the sea of blood his master was contemplating. "The Guises have irritated the house of Bourbon," said Theodore after a pause. "They came to an open rupture at Orleans."
It is to be remarked that Poltrot, who fired at the Duc de Guise fifteen months later, confessed under torture that he had been urged to the crime by Theodore de Beze; though he retracted that avowal during subsequent tortures; so that Bossuet, after weighing all historical considerations, felt obliged to acquit Beze of instigating the crime.
"Jeanne d'Albret knew what she was about when she declared herself protectress of the Huguenots! She has a battering-ram in the Reformation, and she knows how to use it," said the duke, who fathomed the deep designs of the Queen of Navarre, one of the great minds of the century. "Theodore de Beze is now at Nerac," remarked the cardinal, "after first going to Geneva to take Calvin's orders."
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