Excerpt from Outlines of Lectures on History: Addressed to the Students of the Cornell University I. T fie Reform Party in France - Premature ideas of reform in Southern France in the I 3th century, - estab lishment of the Inquisition, and utter extirpation of the Albigensian heresy. The Protestant Reformation, - be ginnings at Meaux, - Briconnet, - Lefevre, - Farel, - Cal vin and his work. Effect of popular discontent in induc ing the rural population to accept the new doctrines, similar effect of the supremacy of the Medici and the Guises at court upon certain high nobles. Reform sympa thies of a large body of thoughtful men and women, Marguerite of France. Selfish motives of sundry nobles. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.