France was within a hair's-breadth of becoming actually Protestant.

But France saw good to massacre Protestantism, and end it in the night of St.Bartholomew, 1572.

The celestial Apparitor of Heaven's Chancery, so we may speak, the Genius of Fact and Veracity, had left his Writ of Summons; Writ was read;--and replied to in this manner.

The Genius of Fact and Veracity accordingly withdrew;--was staved off, got kept away, for two hundred years.

But the writ of Summons had been served; Heaven's Messenger could not stay away forever.