[256] There is little known concerning M. de Richebourg. It appears
from the letter of the Reformer that he had been for some years
separated from his sons Charles and Louis, who had repaired to
Strasbourg, probably to finish their education. The plague, which
raged in Alsace, carried off Louis, the younger of the two brothers,
and his preceptor, both tenderly beloved by Calvin, who, from
Ratisbon, where the sad intelligence had reached him, wrote this
letter of Christian consolation to M. de Richebourg.
Consolatory letter on the death of his son.