[34] Without date. After an attentive examination of this letter
we believe it to refer to the first months of the year 1534, while
Calvin resided with his friend Louis du Tillet at Angoulême. It is
known that the young Reformer, while he was obliged to retire from
Paris, after the discourse of his friend Nicolas Cop, (November
1533,) found an asylum in the house of Du Tillet, and spent several
months at Angoulême in solitude and retirement. It is from that
town, designated under the Greek name of _Doxopolis_, that he wrote
to his friend Francis Daniel, in praise of the kindness of his host
(Louis du Tillet) and of the peaceful retreat which Providence had
prepared for him.
Retirement of Calvin to Angoulême.