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The Reformed faith seeped into France from without. Trickles of evangelical doctrine ebbed and waned from Wittenberg (Luther’s works) and Zurich (Zwingli and Bullinger). But the momentous infiltration was via France’s famous son, Jean Calvin (1506-1564), whose Geneva collaborators included William Farel (1489-1565), Pierre Viret (1511-1571), and Theodore Beza (1519-1605). It was not until May 23, 1559 that this Gallic momentum boldly convened the first National Synod of the Reformed Churches of France in Paris. The occasion was the presentation and adoption of the Confessio Fidei Gallicana (“French Confession of Faith” or “Gallican Confession”)