Faithful to its fundamental principle, it has triumphed over exile, the scaffold, and indifference, without other head than God himself and God alone.
Richelieu had slain the political hydra of Huguenots in France; from that time the Reformers had lived in modest retirement.

"I have no complaint to make of the little flock," Mazarin would say; "if they eat bad grass, at any rate they do not stray." During the troubles of the Fronde, the Protestants had resumed, in the popular vocabulary, their old nickname of _Tant s'en fault_ (Far from it), which had been given them at the time of the League.

"Faithful to the king in those hard times when most Frenchmen were wavering and continually looking to see which way the .
wind would blow, the Huguenots had been called _Tant s'en fault,_ as being removed from and beyond all suspicion of the League or of conspiracy against the state.

And so were they rightly designated, inasmuch as to the cry, '_Qui vive ?_' (Whom are you for ?) instead of answering 'Vive Guise!' or 'Vive la Ligue!' they would answer, '_Tant s'en fault, vive le Roi!_' So that, when one Leaguer would ask another, pointing to a Huguenot, 'Is that one of ours ?' 'Tant s'en fault,' would be the reply, 'it is one of the new religion.'" Conde had represented to Cromwell all the Reformers of France as ready to rise up in his favor; the agent sent by the Protector assured him it was quite the contrary; and the bearing of the Protestants decided Cromwell to refuse all assistance to the princes.

La Rochelle packed off its governor, who was favorable to the Fronde; St.Jean d'Angely equipped soldiers for the king; Montauban, to resist the Frondeurs, repaired the fortifications thrown down by Richelieu.