 A two-volume illustrated folio paraphrase version based on his manuscript, by Jean de Rély, was printed in Paris in 1487.<ref></ref><ref></ref>

The first known translation of the Bible into one of France's regional languages, Arpitan or Franco-Provençal, had been prepared by the 12th-century pre-Protestant reformer Peter Waldo (Pierre de Vaux).<ref></ref> The Waldensians became more militant, creating fortified areas, as in Cabrières, perhaps attacking an abbey.<ref name="Lambert 389">Malcolm D. Lambert, "Medieval Heresy