What exactly did Jean Calvin (1509–1564) do for Geneva?
JEAN CALVIN (1509–1564) What exactly did Jean Calvin do for Geneva ? In 1509 Jean Cauvin (as the name was written at that time) was born in the town of Noyon in Picardy, Northern France, into a wealthy family. When he was 12 he was sent to school in Paris with the intention of becoming a priest, but his father later thought that he would earn his living better as a lawyer so he studied law in Bourges and Orl ?ans….
