Note 41 — IV.—MALE PROSTITUTION, AND PARTICULARLY THAT OF THE STUDENT, THE OFFICIAL, AND THE SOLDIER.

Then (under Henri II) Anne du Bourg thus expresses herself:—“But what! crimes worthy of death, blasphemies, adulteries, horrible debauches, perjuries are committed, with impunity, in the face of heaven, and every day new punishments are invented against men whose only crime is having made, owing to the teachings of Holy Scripture, the discovery of the Roman baseness, and having called for its wholesome reform.” The Councillor du Four, in his turn, exclaims: “We must understand well who they are that trouble the Church, lest that should happen that Elijah told king Ahab, ‘It is you who trouble Israel.’”