But fundamentally her religious idealism was outside of any confession.
This mystically pious woman wrote, in later life, the _Heptameron_, a book of stories published posthumously.

Modelled on the _Decameron_, it consists {190} almost entirely of licentious stories, told without reprobation and with gusto.

If the mouth speaketh from the fullness of the heart she was as much a sensualist in thought as her brother was in deed.

The apparent contradictions in her are only to be explained on the theory that she was one of those impressionable natures that, chameleon-like, always take on the hue of their environment.
But though the work of Lefevre and of Briconnet, who himself gave his clergy an example of simple, biblical preaching, won many followers not only in Meaux but in other cities, it would never have produced a religious revolt like that in Germany.

The Reformation was an importation into France; "The key of heresy," as John Bouchet said in 1531, "was made of the fine iron of Germany." At first almost all the intellectuals hailed Luther as an ally.