The first to suffer was John Valliere.

At the same time Briconnet was summoned to Paris, [Sidenote: 1523] sharply reprimanded for leniency to heretics and fined two hundred livres, in {192} consequence of which he issued two decrees against the heresy, charging it with attempting to subvert the hierarchy and to abolish sacerdotal celibacy.

[Sidenote: 1524] When Lefevre's doctrines were condemned, he submitted; those of his disciples who failed to do so were proscribed.

But the efforts of the government became more strenuous after 1524.

Francis was at this time courting the assistance of the pope against the emperor, and moreover he was horrified by the outbreak of the Peasants' War in Germany.
Convinced of the danger of allowing the new sect to propagate itself any further he commanded the archbishops and bishops of his realm to "proceed against those who hold, publish and follow the heresies, errors and doctrines of Martin Luther." [Sidenote: 1525] Lefevre and some of his friends fled to Strassburg.