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disappeared. Hundreds fled from Paris, self-constituted exiles from their native land,
in many cases thus giving the first intimation that they favoured the reformed faith.
The papists looked about them in amazement at thought of the unsuspected heretics
that had been tolerated among them. Their rage spent itself upon the multitudes of
humbler victims who were within their power. The prisons were crowded, and the
very air seemed darkened with the smoke of burning piles, kindled for the confessors
of the gospel.
Francis I had gloried in being a leader in the great movement for the revival of
learning which marked the opening of the sixteenth century. He had delighted to
gather at his court men of letters from every country. To his love of learning and his
contempt for the ignorance and superstition of the monks was due, in part at least,
the degree of tolerat