Meeting between Charles and Francis at Aigues Mortes.

1539-1540 Charles V crossed France, for the purpose of suppress- ing a disturbance in Ghent, and was received by Francis with special distinction.

Ghent punished by deprivation of its privi- leges.

1540 The Order of Jesuits, founded by Jgnatius Loyola (1534), approved by Pope Paul III, successfully opposed the spread of the Reformation.

1541 Reformation introduced into Geneva by Calvin (Jean Cau- vin, from Noyon in Picardy; born 1509; Catholic pastor in his eighteenth year, resigned his office ; studied law at Orleans and Bourges ; came forward as a reformer at Paris in 1532, finding pro- tection from Margaret of Navarre, sister of Francis I Exiled from France, Calvin went to Basel, published the Institutio christiance relig- ionis 1535 ; 1536-1538 in Geneva ; 1538-1541 in Strasburg, after- wards head of the state in Geneva, 1564).