 These included villages in and around the Massif Central, as well as the area around Dordogne, which used to be almost entirely Reformed too.John Calvin was a Frenchman and himself largely responsible for the introduction and spread of the Reformed tradition in France.<ref></ref> He wrote in French, but unlike the Protestant development in Germany, where Lutheran writings were widely distributed and could be read by the common man, it was not the case in France, where only nobles adopted the new faith and the folk remained Catholic.This is true for many areas in the west and south controlled by the Huguenot nobility.