Encouragement to Mistress de Falais in her new life of freedom of conscience and religion, after having followed her husband to Cologne and Strasbourg.
Below you will find four versions of this letter: the original manuscript, the 1854 edition by Jules Bonnet, a modern French version and a Spanish translation that you can browse and compare. Just click on the buttons to open (or close) the drawers or change the sections’ order. Here is a link to the English translation made by the Gutenberg Project in 2014.
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Facsimiles 27 - 29 : from John Calvin to Mr. de Falais
Library record (complemented by the catalog record)
Ms. fr. 194
Title : Calvin, John. Collection of Calvin’s letters (1543-1551)
Date(s) : Date of copy of the manuscript : 16th century
Sender(s) : Calvin, John
Description : Paper - 333 x 224 mm - (I-VI) front flyleaves + 83 folios + (VII-X) back flyleaves - foliation in red ink.
Binding : Half bound - Morocco - Hardback, covered with granite paper.
Presentation of the contents : This manuscript contains essentially letters from Calvin to Jacques de Bourgogne, lord of Falais and Bredam, and to his wife Yolande de Brederode. These letters amount to 57 [...].
BACKGROUND : According to the handwritten inventory of Théophile Dufour, the publisher who printed a great part of these letters in Amsterdam, in 1744, sent them to the Library of Geneva after their printing. In 1748, César de Missy sent four more, two as originals and two as copies (these are two copies of letters from Calvin to M. de Falaix, copies made by César de Missy and sent to Jean-Pierre Cromelin, professor of history at the Academy, for the Library of Geneva in 1748. These two copies are not part of the letters printed in Amsterdam in 1744). He had the two originals from Mr. Jennet, of Utrecht, who kept the originals of the other two.
Identifier : ark:/17786/vta52aceeb9e2b62db5
Date(s) : Date of copy of the manuscript : 16th century
Sender(s) : Calvin, John
Description : Paper - 333 x 224 mm - (I-VI) front flyleaves + 83 folios + (VII-X) back flyleaves - foliation in red ink.
Binding : Half bound - Morocco - Hardback, covered with granite paper.
Presentation of the contents : This manuscript contains essentially letters from Calvin to Jacques de Bourgogne, lord of Falais and Bredam, and to his wife Yolande de Brederode. These letters amount to 57 [...].
BACKGROUND : According to the handwritten inventory of Théophile Dufour, the publisher who printed a great part of these letters in Amsterdam, in 1744, sent them to the Library of Geneva after their printing. In 1748, César de Missy sent four more, two as originals and two as copies (these are two copies of letters from Calvin to M. de Falaix, copies made by César de Missy and sent to Jean-Pierre Cromelin, professor of history at the Academy, for the Library of Geneva in 1748. These two copies are not part of the letters printed in Amsterdam in 1744). He had the two originals from Mr. Jennet, of Utrecht, who kept the originals of the other two.
Identifier : ark:/17786/vta52aceeb9e2b62db5
Provenance : 
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Facsimiles 144-146
Library record
Title : Lettres de John Calvin : lettres françaises. T. 1 / recueillies pour la première fois et publ. d'après les ms. originaux par Jules Bonnet
Author : Calvin, John (1509-1564). Author of the text
Publisher : (Paris)
Date of edition : 1854
Contributor : Bonnet, Jules (1820-1892). Scientific editor
Overall Record: : http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb30188089q
Type : printed monograph printed monograph
Language : French
Format : 2 volumes (XXXIX-451-600 p.): facsimile; in-octavo 2 volumes (XXXIX-451-600 p.): facsimile; in-octavo
Description : Correspondence Correspondence
Rights : Searchable online
Identifier : ark:/12148/bpt6k209248w
Source : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Provenance : Bibliothèque nationale de France
Date of online publication : 15/10/2007
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