. 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). 137 John Calvin (Joannes Calvinus) JEAN CALVIN was born at Noyon, a cityof Picardy, in France, on July lo, father, Gerard Chauvin, or Cauvin,Apostolic Notary, Registrar in the Eccle-siastical Court, secretary to the Bishop, andProctor in the Chapter of the diocese, was able todo two things for his second son John—to give himthe best education then to be had, and to get forhim ecclesiastical preferment. Joh
. 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). 137 John Calvin (Joannes Calvinus) JEAN CALVIN was born at Noyon, a cityof Picardy, in France, on July lo, father, Gerard Chauvin, or Cauvin,Apostolic Notary, Registrar in the Eccle-siastical Court, secretary to the Bishop, andProctor in the Chapter of the diocese, was able todo two things for his second son John—to give himthe best education then to be had, and to get forhim ecclesiastical preferment. John Chauvin receivedhis elementary education in the mansion of the DeMommors, a noble family of the district ; and,when only twelve years of age, there was securedfor him a presentation to a benefice in the Chapellede Notre Dame de la Gesine, in the Cathedral ofNoyon. Thereafter he accompanied the young DeMommors to Paris. At the capital he studied firstat the College of La Marche, and afterwards at 138. John Calvin that of Montaign. In the former he had forclassical instructor Maturin Corderier, or Cordery,a famous Humanist, with whose Latin Colloquiesboys became painfully acquainted in the old parishschools of Scotland ; in the latter he studied logicand philosophy under Poblatius, a learned Spaniardwhom Francis I. had brought to Paris in theinterests of literature and science. A second bene-fice was obtained by the father for the lad whilestill in his teens, and he became cure or parishpriest of St. Martin de Marteville, in the diocese ofNoyon, when eighteen years old. Up to 1528, John Calvins studies were all witha view to the ministry ; but in that year theirdirection was altered, and he went to the Universityof Orleans, which had long been the chief seminaryof jurisprudence in France, to qualify for the legalprofession. From Orleans he went to Bourges,attracted by the fame of an Italian professor oflaw, Alciati by name. While studying law, Calvinreceived instruction in Gr
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