(From February to the end of March 1536.)
There was now to be an interview between the liberators and the liberated1. Berne and Geneva, united by a common faith, were to embrace each other. The members of those two republics loved one another not only as allies but as brothers. On Thursday (February 3d) the Council of Two Hundred assembled; many other citizens were present, and the hall was full. Nägueli appeared, accompanied by his principal officers and the representatives of the Council of Berne. The assembly gave utterance2 to its joy, and all eyes were fixed3 on the valiant4 general.
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'Most honored lords,' he said, 'this long while past we have heard your complaints. For these twenty months we have been making great efforts at Lucerne, Baden, and even Aosta; and having thus exhausted5 all the means of peace, we have drawn6 the sword, and the enemy has fled on every side. Now we will do whatever you command us, for we are here to fulfil the oaths that unite Geneva and Berne.' Such noble language moved the assembly. 'May God do the same for you,' replied the premier7 syndic. Then desiring the work to be perfect, he added: 'Now, gentlemen, march onwards; pursue the enemy until the end; we are ready to give you all necessary assistance.' It was decided8 that the army should make itself master of Chablais on the left shore of the lake, and push forward on the other side as far as Chambery. In all those districts they would circulate the Word of God.[725]
=BURNING OF THE CASTLES.=
There was first another task to be completed. For centuries the castles had obstructed9 the progress of civilization, and in later years that of the gospel. It was from those eyries, perched on their lofty rocks, that the vultures swooped11 down upon the plain. Bishops13 even had been known to entreat14 the princes to destroy, 'for the love of God and the honor of the blessed Mary, those buildings constructed by the inspiration of Satan.'[726] This the evangelical Nägueli was about to do, and henceforth the husbandman would drive his plow16 in peace through fields from which he would no longer fear to see the fruit of his labors17 swept away.
The inhabitants of the castles had disappeared: fear of the Bernese had depopulated the country. Men, women, and children had taken refuge in the miserable18
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chalets of the Salève, Voirons, Mole19, and Jura. Priests and monks21, hurriedly abandoning their parishes and their convents, threw off their frocks and assumed the garb23 of the peasantry. 'Not one man in all the country dared represent himself as a priest or a monk20.' Every now and then one of them dressed in a coarse gray coat would leave his hiding-place, and mysteriously entering some half-deserted hut, would ask the affrighted peasant 'what the bear of Berne was doing.' 'But take care,' he added, 'you tell nobody that I am a priest.' The clerical and lay despots of the Middle Ages learnt in their turn what it was to tremble.
At length a great spectacle of desolation, which was to be the last, began. A judgment24—may we not call it a judgment of God?—was accomplished25. Here and there at first a few flames were seen flashing forth15, and these soon became an immense conflagration26. Detachments, consisting of Bernese and Genevans, issued from the city: some turned to the right, others to the left; the ancient walls of some old towers were their aim. 'It was from thence,' said the Genevans, 'that rapine and death have so often rushed out upon us.' The building was surrounded, the most impetuous made their way into the interior and set fire to it, and when the flames had caught they rushed off for another execution. These detachments were followed by a numerous troop of men, women, and boys, who had their share also in the business. The judgment of God swept over the country, as of old over the land of Canaan. The fortresses27 of Gex, Gaillard, and Jussy, those terrible scourges29 of Geneva; the castles of Coppet, Prangins, Bellerive, Vilette, Ville-la-Grand, and many others, fell a prey30 to the flames. They were in all, according to Froment, from a hundred to a hundred and forty. Geneva was sometimes surrounded by a circle of fire. The longer and crueller the offence, the more terrible was the punishment. No one was put to death, but those feudal31 lairs32, which crumbled33 away in
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=DESTRUCTION OF PENEY.=
There was one castle in particular whose destruction the Genevans desired: it was Peney. On the 8th of February some Bernese, accompanied by a few horsemen and gunners of Geneva, started for this purpose. The blood shed by the Peneysans and their numberless outrages35 made them cry out unanimously, 'No mercy for Peney!' The almost abandoned fortress28 was easily occupied. A fire was kindled36 in that courtyard where the victims had been so cruelly tortured. The castle was soon in flames, and there remained nothing but dismantled37 towers and blackened walls; but that was not enough. Those walls still seemed guilty, and the Genevans so completely destroyed the ill-omened ruin that not a trace of it can now be found. All the country was at length swept clean of a long-continued brigandage38; but (we repeat) it does not appear that one of those gentlemen or of their dependents suffered death or even imprisonment40 for their crimes. The device of Geneva and of Berne during this remarkable41 expedition was: 'Spare the tyrants42, but destroy their dens43.'[727]
At the same time peace reigned44 within. A spirit of pardon seemed to have descended45 upon the Genevans. Happiness enlarged all their hearts. On Sunday (February 6th) sermons were preached in the different churches by the reformers; after which the great bell, Clémence, reserved for solemn occasions, summoned all the people to St. Pierre's. It was, as it were, the first day of the new republic. 'Citizens,' said one of the syndics, 'in order that the city may prosper46 we must believe what the Gospel teaches and live according to
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its commandments. Accordingly—and this is our new decree—let all the animosities which sprang up during the war be renounced47; all offences pardoned, all quarrels forgotten, all lawsuits48 given up. Let us drop all hateful names. Let no man henceforth say to another, "You are a papist," or the latter reply, "You are a Lutheran." But let us all live according to the Holy Gospel of God,' Such were the first fruits of the Reformation. 'We will! we will!' shouted the people. They then proceeded to the election of the four syndics who were to be at the head of the new republic. The assembly chose the energetic Claude Savoye, the amiable49 and persevering50 Ami Porral, and the zealous51 Etienne de Chapeaurouge, men on the side of the Reformation but especially of political experience. The people, wishing to have among their magistrates52 one man purely53 evangelical, named Ami Levet, the husband of the pious54 Claudine, although he was not on the list proposed by the senate. Shortly afterwards the Two Hundred elected the twenty-five members of the Council, and Balard, as well as Richardet, Roman-catholics but good citizens, preserved their seats. In the hour of their greatest enthusiasm the Genevans behaved justly and without party-spirit—a thing rarely witnessed in the annals of nations.[728]
On the evening before, Nägueli, at the head of the army, augmented55 by a Genevese contingent56, had marched out in order to follow up his victory as far as Chambery and farther. Ambitious thoughts may then perhaps have stirred the hearts of some of the Bernese. For the triumph of the Reformation (they might possibly have said for the grandeur57 of Berne) they thought that Savoy, and even the north of
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Italy, ought to be conquered. Let there be formed in the centre of Europe, on both sides of the colossal58 citadels59 of the Alps, a great confederation of independent and evangelical people, which shall circulate liberty and truth through Germany, France, and the Italian peninsula. Therefore forward to Chambery, and farther!
The dream was to melt away as soon as formed. The general was riding in front, calm and pensive60, followed by some of his officers. He turned his head—there was no army to be seen. Nägueli galloped61 back towards Geneva, and found his soldiers drawn up in a square in a large field and deliberating democratically. What was the cause of such a breach62 of military discipline? The soldiers, satisfied with having delivered Geneva, did not care to follow their captain in his daring schemes. They deliberated therefore, as they were wont63 to do in their valleys. Should they march forward or turn back? 'To Berne,' cried many; 'to our fields, our flocks, our mountains!' Nägueli succeeded, however, in getting the army to march. Was he not their good Franz?[729]
=THE FRENCH INVADE SAVOY.=
On Saturday, 12th of February, the Swiss advanced guard had reached Rumilly, near the lake of Bourget, eight leagues from Chambery, when M. de Villebon, grand provost of Paris, arrived in great haste at the camp. 'The king my master,' he said, 'has a quarrel with the duke of Savoy, his uncle, about his mother's rights. Yesterday (February 11th) he signed at Lyons the commission given to the Sire de Brion-Chabot, admiral of France, to attack Savoy. Eight hundred French lances, a thousand light horse, twelve thousand infantry64, six thousand lansquenets, two thousand French adventurers, three thousand Italians, and a powerful artillery65 are about to enter the states of the duchy; and when Savoy is conquered, the
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French army will invade Piedmont. I require you, therefore, in the name of the king, to proceed no farther.' Nägueli, already shaken by the demands of his soldiers, answered that as the King of France had rights over those countries, the Swiss would discontinue their advance.[730]
=LAST YEARS OF THE DUKE.=
Other hands than those of Switzerland were to deal the last blows destined66 to secure the Reformation and independence of Geneva. Villebon had hardly got back to Lyons, when the army of Francis I. moved forward, overran Bresse and Savoy, then invaded Piedmont, and afterwards the Milanese. The duke, always irresolute67, had taken no steps to check the French. It was in vain that at the last moment he called Medici to his aid; that captain, who had been unable to destroy Geneva, could not save Piedmont. Charles III., abandoned by the emperor, his brother-in-law, found himself, after spending thirty years of his life in hunting down Geneva, robbed in four months of his states, which he never entered again, and driven to bay on the shores of the Mediterranean68. All kinds of disasters fell upon him at once. His country was devastated69 by the plague; his friends turned against him; the emperor showed him no pity; his son, the heir to his crown, was taken away by death; his beautiful and haughty70 wife, Beatrice of Portugal, pierced to the heart by so many misfortunes, died of a wasting sickness. Of all his states there was nothing left but the valley of Aosta, Nice, and two or three other cities. Alone and affrighted, this unhappy prince dragged out a wearisome life. He regretted his son, regretted his wife, regretted his states. His heated imagination surrounded him with phantoms71; Geneva, which, unopposed, was developing her glorious and new existence, was to him an
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avenging72 ghost. He fell ill: he broke out in sweats; he shivered with cold; his eyes grew dim and his face pale; he wasted away of a slow fever. After a punishment of twenty-three years, death, the consequence of his reverses and his sorrows, put an end to the painful existence of the great enemy of Genevese independence and of the Reformation.[731] His son, Emanuel Philibert, a man of great capacity, recovered his states; but having many evils to repair, he adopted a pacific policy with regard to Geneva. Forty-four years of peace permitted the Reformation and the new republic to strengthen and organize themselves. God gives to the people and the churches, whom he designs to make use of, the time necessary for their development.
While these things were going on, dangers less apparent, but as great as they were unexpected, threatened Geneva. As the Bernese desired to reap advantage from the help accorded to the little republic, their ambassadors put forward certain pretensions73, which they set up a little later with respect to Lausanne and Vaud, and which were then too easily conceded. The lords of Berne, regardless of the reproach that might be urged against them of having consulted merely their own interests in the expedition, hinted to the council of Geneva that they ought to have their reward, and asked that the rights and prerogatives74 of the duke and the bishop12 should be transferred to them. Such a demand revolted the proud independence of the Genevese, and they rejected the sovereignty of Berne with as much decision as they had rejected that of Savoy. 'If we had desired to have a master,' they answered with firmness, 'we should have spared ourselves all the trouble, expense, and bloodshed of which we have been so prodigal75 to secure our independence.' Berne was forced to give
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way before a resolution that appeared immovable. When Nägueli re-entered Geneva, after having taken the Fort de l'Ecluse on returning from his short campaign, he was surprised to meet with a cold and embarrassed reception, very different from the former enthusiastic welcome. The noble general, who did not like such discussions, gave immediate76 orders for the departure of his army.
There was still a great work to be accomplished. In conformity77 with the instructions of the Bernese government, Nägueli was to break the twofold yoke78 of the pope and the duke which pressed heavily upon the territory of Vaud. His troops marched into that country without resistance, and took Yverdun, in which the intrepid79 Mangerot had fortified80 himself. In a short time cities, villages, and castles submitted; a few towns, tired of the Savoyard rule, desired to be annexed81 to Berne. Others, especially Lausanne and some rural districts, wished to retain all their rights; but they gave way, when the Bernese promised to respect their franchises82. Under any circumstances it was a good work to take away from the pope and unite to Switzerland the beautiful country that extends from the lake of Geneva to that of Neuchâtel. Nägueli re-entered Berne in peace, and his soldiers, proud of a four weeks' campaign that was to have such important consequences, gave vent22 to their exultation83, and concluded their songs with this line:
Respecte l'ours, ou bien crains les oursons.[732]
The work appeared to be accomplished. The city of the Reformation thrilled with joy, and exulted84 in the air of liberty and of the Gospel. Here and there, however, sorrows and regrets remained. Many hearts were wrung85, and many an eye was turned with mortification86
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in the direction of Chillon, where Bonivard had been languishing87 for six years. He had done so much to give liberty to Geneva, and he alone was not free. He was pining away, imprisoned88 within those rocks, which, excavated89 below the level of the lake, form a gigantic sepulchre. A loophole permitted a feeble ray of light to enter the dungeon90, and the prisoner, while walking slowly round the column to which he was chained, delighted to turn his eyes towards that side, and sometimes contemplated91 (according to tradition) a little bird, which used to perch10 on the iron bars of the narrow opening. At the slightest noise, the bird flew off to the wood behind the castle, or skimmed away over the surface of the lake. The bird was free; but Bonivard was in chains. 'I had such leisure for walking,' he said, 'that I wore away a path in the rock, as if it had been done with a hammer.'[733] When he was seized by the perfidious92 hands of his enemies he had said: 'I am going alone, with God, to suffer my passion!' And suffer it he did. But while his body and heart suffered, his mind was at work. Some of the thoughts which then occupied him have been recorded by his own hand: Live in remembrance of death,—Courage increases by wounds, and such like. For five or six months the Genevan envoys93, so traitorously94 seized at Coppet, had also been imprisoned at Chillon, but not in the underground dungeons95.
=CHILLON ATTACKED.=
Such iniquities96 could not be tolerated. Berne again took up her fire-sticks, and Geneva prepared her boats. On the 20th of March one hundred armed men were embarked97 on four war cutters and other vessels98. The Genevese councils had given the command to Francis Favre and Francis Chamois. All the citizens would have liked to march in person to Chillon to set Bonivard
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and the plenipotentiaries at liberty. On the day of sailing, everybody left their houses, and from an agitated99 crowd assembled near the Rhone, there rose a universal cry, 'Rescue the captives!'
On Sunday morning—it was the 26th of March—Bonivard being as usual in his dungeon, pricked100 up his ears. He fancied he heard an unaccustomed noise; he was not mistaken. Loud but still distant cannon101 shots re-echoed through the vaults103 of his prison. What was going on? It was the artillery of Berne which, on its arrival at Lutry, between Lausanne and Chillon, announced its presence. But that signal of deliverance was to be the signal of death to Bonivard and the three envoys. 'If the Bernese appear before the place,' wrote the duke of Savoy to the governor, 'you will give the prisoners of Geneva the estrapade twice, and then put them to death without hesitation104.'[734] The duke intended that the deliverers should find nothing but corpses105.
The next morning (27th of March) Chillon was surrounded. Berne had drawn up her troops and planted her guns below the village of Veytaux, between the castle and Montreux. The Valaisans, although catholics, had also taken up arms to expel the duke from their neighborhood, and had placed their artillery on the Villeneuve side; the Genevans blockaded the castle from the lake. The batteries opened fire, and the governor perceiving that all resistance was useless, demanded a parley106 at nightfall. Nägueli, Favre, and some other captains assembled at the foot of a steep rock between the castle and the Bernese batteries, to receive his deputies; but as they could not come at once to terms, the conference was prolonged. The garrison107, by no means anxious to fall into the hands of the Swiss, determined108 to take advantage of this
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momentary109 respite110 and of the veil of night, to make their escape. Silently they crept on board the great galley111; not a voice, not a sound of arms was heard, and having thus mysteriously got away, they made rapidly towards Savoy. When Favre was informed of it, he went immediately on board his boat, which was moored112 to the shore, and hastened in pursuit of the enemy; but before he could get up with them, they had thrown their cannons113 into the lake, set fire to the galley, and from Lugrin, where they landed, hurried into the Savoyard Alps below the Dents39 d'Oche. Had they taken Bonivard and the three plenipotentiaries with them? It was a question that could not be answered, and Favre, ill at ease, veered114 round and returned to Chillon.[735]
=BONIVARD LIBERATED.=
The governor had surrendered just as he arrived. Nägueli, on leaving Berne, had written to him that he should answer with his head for the lives of the prisoners: he had, therefore, some hope of recovering them. Favre, Chamois, and the other Genevans hastily sprang from their boats, entered the castle, and in a minute they embraced the three envoys. But where was Bonivard? They seized the keys of the vaults, unlocked a sunk door, and entered. It was the hall of execution: beneath its rude arches were wheels, axes, pulleys, cords, and all the horrible instruments with which men were crippled or killed. The Genevans, without stopping, ran to the door of an inner vault102, undid115 the bars, pulled back the bolts. The friends of the prior of Saint Victor sprang over the threshold, rushed into the gloomy dungeon, reached the column. 'Here he is! he is alive!' Bonivard fell into their arms. His friends found it difficult to recognize him. The features changed by suffering, the long unkempt beard, the hair
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falling over his shoulders—had changed his appearance.[736] 'Bonivard,' they said to him, 'Bonivard, you are free!' The prisoner, who seemed to be waking from a long sleep, did not think of himself: his first words were for the city he had loved so much. 'And Geneva?' he asked. 'Geneva is free too,' they replied. His chains were taken off, and, conducted by his friends, he crossed the door of that vast prison. The bright light which burst upon him affected116 his eyes which had been deprived of it for so many years, and he turned them mechanically towards the gloom of his dungeon. At last he recovered himself and bade farewell to his sepulchre. The crowd looked at him for some moments with emotion, and then rushed into that dismal117 cell, where the wretched man had suffered so long. Every one desired to see it, and for ages yet to come the traveller will visit it. The illustrious prisoner was delivered; the last fortress of tyranny was captured; the victory of the Reformation was complete. No traveller wandering along the picturesque118 shore of Montreux can fail to look at those walls, rising out of the water, without a feeling of horror for despotism and of gratitude119 for the Gospel. Those rocks, so long the witnesses of oppression, are now hailed with emotion and joy by the friends of the Word of God and liberty.
Chillon! thy prison is a holy place,
And thy sad floor an altar.[737]
The flotilla was soon sailing back to Geneva with Bonivard and the three parlementaires on board. They were returning joyously120 through the help from on high, and in a short time they landed from their boats amid the joyful121 shouts of their fellow-citizens, and placed their feet on a free soil.
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