There he met the scholar Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples[7] who helped Farel obtain a professorship to teach grammar and philosophy at the Collège Cardinal Lemoine in Paris.

[1] Farel now could invite a number of Evangelical humanists to work in his diocese to help implement his reform program within the Catholic Church.

The members of the Meaux circle were of different talents but they generally emphasized the study of the Bible and a return to the theology of the early Church.

In 1524, while in Basel, he wrote thirteen theses sharply criticizing Roman doctrine, but his argument was so heated that even Erasmus joined in the demand for his expulsion.

Resistance from the established authority led to a brief period of banishment but the Bern government again granted him liberty of worship and he was able to return to preaching.

Scott Manetsch notes that Calvin was "flabbergasted and irate" at the marriage, "fearing that his friend's scandalous action would inflict irreparable damage on the cause of the Reformation throughout Europe.