AND TDTOR TO FREDERICK THE NOBLE. 



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instance, is a member of tlie de Pourtales family. England 

 can ])roduce an exam})le on all fours with this in the person of 

 Sir Louis Mallet, whose Genevese ancestors show an unbroken 

 line in the service of the English State through three 

 generations. 



' It has been, throughout the nineteenth century, a hal)it with 

 the Hohenzollerns — as with the Komanofis — to look to the 

 Protestant French-speaking Eepublics of Switzerland for 

 tutors and governesses. The Hohenzollerns would naturally 

 look to their faithful subjects in Neuchatel, while the Eomanoft's 

 — be it said by the way — have, through five consecutive genera- 

 tions, been partly educated by gentlemen from Geneva or 

 Lausanne, whom they cause to feel quite at home in orthodox 

 and autocratic Eussia. 



To return to the Hohenzollerns, their leanings to Calvinism 

 have been constant with the single exception of Frederick 

 the Great. The present Emperor of Germany will tell you 

 quite frankly that the form of worship in his household is 

 Protestant. He misses no opportunity that offers in which to 

 recall his Calvinistic collateral ancestry, in the persons of 

 William the Silent and of Admiral Coligny. The Huguenot 

 Church of Frankfort remains the most fashionable in the realm, 

 and the names of its incumbents, now Correvon, and — when 

 Oodet passed there on his way to Berlin — Bonnet, Pilot, and 

 Appia, have the true Protestant ring about them. 



At Frankfort, Godet called upon a young governess from 

 Neuchatel, Caroline Vautravers, who, twelve years later, became 

 his wife. Let us say at once that he married twice, his second 

 wife being the governess of the orphan children. The mother 

 of Mademoiselle Vautravers was herself governess to the 

 Princesses Luise and Anna, daughters of Prnice Charles — 

 another of those trivial instances wdiich show how willingly 

 the Hohenzollerns applied to Neuchatel for the kind of brain- 

 stuff they wanted, whether in the schoolroom, the camp, or round 

 the tapis xcrt of diplomacy. 



A mind as firm as that of Godet would use his course of 

 studies and his sojourn in a foreign capital to find out and 

 determine his own bearings, rather than yield himself to the 

 dominating infiuences to which he was now subjected. 



We have said how he had seen, in Paris, much that he had 

 noted dow^n as evil. He foresaw, with some trembling, that 

 his proposed three years in Berlin, too, must bring along for 

 him intellectual and religious strife. So he had made up his 

 mind that no external, influence should shake, no personal 



