Affaire Rey-Maupin

spirit of intellectual enquiry. After 1517, however, Luther’s uncompromising revolt against the papacy raised the spectre of heresy, which was duly denounced by Rome and the Faculty of Theology of the Sorbonne. A precarious truce ended after the ‘Affaire des Placards’ of 1534 when a pamphlet denouncing the mass was posted in Paris and, at Amboise, on the door of the King’s chamber. François I 34 THE RENAISSANCE reacted strongly and in the years that followed Humanists and Reformers were