Note 116 — Chapter III

Calvin says: “C’est une chose bien expédiente à l’édification de l’esglise, de chanter aulcungs pseaumes en forme d’oraysons publicqs.” The translations of the Psalms by Clement Marot, which were afterwards used in the Church of Geneva, were not published till 1541, and the pseaumes may have been religious canticles such as were used in the Reformed Church of Neuchâtel from 1533; but it ought to be remembered that translations of the Psalms of David did exist in France before Marot’s; cf. Herminjard, Correspondance, iv. 163 n.