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Hubert Languet
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A Huguenot, or French Protestant, Languet may have authored the Vindiciae contra tyrannos. Influenced by Melanchthon, he gravitated to Wittenberg, where he befriended Melanchthon and remained after he was expelled from his native France. Languet, too, narrowly escaped the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day, which found him in France on a mission to persuade the Catholic King Charles IX to extend religious freedom to the Huguenots. His pursuit of toleration for Protestants took him across the face of Europe; it was rarely successful.
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