most noble souls; Quietism, as a sect, did not survive its
illustrious founders; faith and love have withstood the excess of zeal
and the erroneous tendencies which had separated them from the aggregate
of Christian virtues and doctrines; they have come back again into the
pious treasury of the universal church. Neither time nor persecutions
have been able to destroy in France the strong and independent groundwork
of Protestantism. 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. "The crown was tottering upon the king's
head," said Count d' Harcourt to the pastors of Guienne, "but you have
made it secure." The royal declaration of 1652, confirming and ratifying
the edict of Nantes, was a recompense for the services and fidelity of
the Huguenots. They did not enjo