. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). 178. MICHEL DE LHOPITAL. Michel de lH6pital (Michael Hospitalius) THIS enlightened and Hberal statesman ofFrance was born at Aigueperse, in the oldprovince of Auvergne, which now con-stitutes the Departments of Pu de Domeand Cantal, in or about the year studied law at Toulouse, probably the oldestschool of law in France, and after occupying sub-ordinate civic offices, he became Chancellor of Francein 1560.

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. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). 178. MICHEL DE LHOPITAL. Michel de lH6pital (Michael Hospitalius) THIS enlightened and Hberal statesman ofFrance was born at Aigueperse, in the oldprovince of Auvergne, which now con-stitutes the Departments of Pu de Domeand Cantal, in or about the year studied law at Toulouse, probably the oldestschool of law in France, and after occupying sub-ordinate civic offices, he became Chancellor of Francein 1560. In the previous year Henry II., the husband ofCatherine de Medici, had died and been succeededby the eldest of his four sons, under the title ofFrancis II., a lad of sixteen, feeble in mind andbody, the first of Mary Stuart of Scotlands husbands,and the docile ward of his uncles the Guises, theruthless persecutors of French Protestants, Francisdied at the age of seventeen, after a reign of about 179 Bezas Portraits of Reformers as many months, and there came to the throne hisbrother, Charles IX., a youth of only nine and a halfyears. He wore the crown, but his mother, thecrafty I

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