If his wife were Genevan, it would explain how the house of Savoy came to possess so early a large portion of the Genevois.

By 1555, Calvinists were firmly in place on the Genevan town council, so the Libertines, led by Perrin, responded with an " attempted coup against the government and called for the massacre of the French ...

He ineffectually resisted the efforts of the Calvinists, led by Caspar Olevianus, to introduce the Presbyterian polity and discipline, which were established at Heidelberg in 1570, on the Genevan model.

Of the tunes in the Genevan Psalter, some are reminiscent of secular chansons, others are directly borrowed from the Strasbourg Psalter ; The remainder were composed by successively Guillaume Franc, Louis Bourgeois and Pierre Davantès.

In defense of Calvin and the Genevan magistrates, Beza published in 1554 the work De haereticis a civili magistratu puniendis ( translated into French in 1560 ).

Hans Jakob from the Genevan UEA tricked the IEL board into a fusion of IEL and Genevan UEA, lying that the rich Eduard Stettler had left a huge capital to UEA.

In 1562, the publisher John Day brought together most of the psalm versions from the Genevan editions and many new psalms by John Hopkins, Thomas Norton, and John Markant to make up The Whole Booke of Psalmes, Collected into English Meter.

Leo Damrosch writes, " an eighteenth-century Genevan liturgy still required believers to declare ‘ that we are miserable sinners, born in corruption, inclined to evil, incapable by ourselves of doing good '.

When he returned by invitation in 1541, he wrote the Ecclesiastical ordinances, the constitution for a Genevan church, which was passed by the council of Geneva.

The English rendering was substantially based on the earlier translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale ( more than 80 percent of the language in the Genevan Bible is from Tyndale ).

One faction favored the church polity and liturgy of the Book of Common Prayer while the other advocated Reformed models promoted by John Calvin's Genevan church.

While Arminius pointed to the Bible to defend his positions, the Calvinist views set forth by " the Genevan patriarchs gradually acquired the force of Res judicata, so that resistance against it was no longer tolerated.

This group, led by Ami Perrin, argued against Calvin's " insistence that church discipline should be enforced uniformly against all members of Genevan society ".

The Genevan model was informed by an interpretation of Erasmus ' humanism.

Although the tune was first associated with Psalm 134 in the Genevan Psalter, the melody receives its current name from an association with the 100th Psalm, in a paraphrase by William Kethe entitled All People that on Earth do Dwell.

Music for the Genevan psalter was furnished by Loys Bourgeois and others like Guillaume Franc and a certain Maistre Pierre.

* The Genevan Psalter revised and approved by the Walloon Synod ( 1729 )

In many cases, the Genevan gown was replaced by a suit.

Reveries of a Solitary Walker ( or Reveries of the Solitary Walker, French title: Les Rêveries du promeneur solitaire ) is an unfinished book by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, written between 1776 and 1778.

It may have been issued in response to a sermon delivered at St. Paul's Cross on the subject of the Genevan form of church discipline then advocated by John Field.

* William D. Maxwell, The Liturgical Portions of the Genevan Service Book used by John Knox While a Minister of the English Congregation of Marian Exiles at Geneva, 1556 – 1559.

Laughter in a Genevan Gown: The Works of Frederick Buechner 1970 – 1980.

Horace-Bénédict de Saussure ( 17 February 1740 – 22 January 1799 ) was a Genevan aristocrat, physicist and Alpine traveller, often considered the founder of alpinism, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven.

Pierre Étienne Louis Dumont ( 18 July 1759 – 29 September 1829 ), known as Étienne Dumont, sometimes anglicised as Stephen Dumont, was a Genevan political writer.

* Genevan Psalter, 1562

* Three preludes on melodies from the Genevan Psalter ( 1907 / 8 )

Goudimel is most famous for his four-part settings of the psalms of the Genevan Psalter, in the French versions of Clément Marot.

* The Genevan Psalter Resource Center

" Old 100th " or " Old Hundredth " is a hymn tune in Long Metre from Pseaumes Octante Trois de David ( 1551 ) ( the second edition of the Genevan Psalter ) and is one of the best known melodies in all Christian musical traditions.

The Genevan Psalter was compiled over a number of years in the Swiss city of Geneva, a center of Protestant activity during the Reformation, in response to the teaching of John Calvin that communal singing of psalms in the vernacular language is a foundational aspect of church life.

The original lyrics set to this tune in the Genevan Psalter are taken from Psalm 134.

One of the greatest metrical psalters produced during the Reformation, the Genevan Psalter, was authored for the Protestant churches of France and Geneva ( called the Huguenots ).

This Psalter borrowed the hymn tunes from the Genevan Psalter and consisted of a literal translation of Marot and Beza's French translation.

** Modernized English texts for the Genevan Psalter with MIDI files for original tunes ( Original Geneva psalter 1562 )

** Introduction to the Genevan Psalter

The extent to which he was composer, arranger or compiler was not certain, until a long-lost copy of the Genevan Psalter of 1551 came to the library of the Rutgers University.

He is one of the three main composers of the hymn tunes to the Genevan Psalter.

Louis Bourgeois is the one most responsible for the tunes in the Genevan Psalter, the source for the hymns of both the Reformed Church in England and the Pilgrims in America.

In 1823, Genevan entrepreneur M. Falconnet launched the Évian mineral water company ( Société des Eaux Minérales d ' Évian ) and purchased the cities ' two main springs ( the most famous being the Cachat spring named after the family that sold it ) in March 1827.

Furthermore, in the Genevan and Scottish Reformed tradition, man-made hymns are not sung, being seen inferior to the God-inspired psalms of the Bible.

Berthelier applied for reinstatement to another Genevan administrative assembly, the Deux Cents ( Two Hundred ), in November.

King James's Bible is used as the name for the 1611 translation ( on a par with the " Genevan Bible " or the " Rhemish Testament ") in Charles Butler's Horae Biblicae ( first published 1797 ).

The Genevan reformer John Calvin, writing his Institutes of the Christian Religion at the very time of the Reformation, wrote therein " beyond the pale of the Church no forgiveness of sins, no salvation, can be hoped for ".

The chapter division was made three centuries earlier, but the verses belong to the Genevan version, and are meant to make the book suitable for responsive use and for readier reference.

At some periods of history a black gown, either academical or ' Genevan ', was worn for Morning and Evening Prayer instead of the surplice which was reserved for use at the Holy Communion-the cassock, bands, gown, academical hood and tippet still being the normal liturgical costume for ordained minister of the Church of Scotland and other Reformed and Presbyterian churches.

The Genevan Book of Order, sometimes called The Order of Geneva or Knox's Liturgy, is a directory for public worship in the Reformed Church of Scotland.