Note 473 — CXXVI.—To Viret.
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William du Bellay had died in 1543, without realizing the hope which the Reformers of Germany and Switzerland had rested on his character and talents, for the spread of the Gospel in France. (See note 1, p. 58.) Th. de Bèze accuses him of double-dealing, and stigmatizes him as "rather the servant of the king than of God."—Hist. Eccl., tom. i. p. 22. Sleidan is less severe; witness the fine éloge he has written of the Lord of Langey, lib. xv. pp. 424-426.