Editing Joseph Justus Scaliger (section)

==France, Geneva, and back to France==
[[File:Portret van Josephus Justus Scaliger Joseph Scaliger (titel op object), RP-P-BI-7398X.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Scaliger, in a print by [[Gérard Edelinck]] (late 18th century)]]
On his return to France, he spent three years with the Chastaigners, accompanying them to their different ''[[château]]x'' in [[Poitou]], as the calls of the civil war required. In 1570 he accepted the invitation of [[Jacques Cujas]] and proceeded to [[Valence, Drôme|Valence]] to study [[jurisprudence]] under the greatest living jurist. Here he remained three years, profiting not only by the lectures but even more by the library of Cujas, which filled no fewer than seven or eight rooms and included five hundred manuscripts.{{sfn|Christie|Sandys|1911|p=284}}

The [[St. Bartholomew's Day massacre|St Bartholomew's Day Massacre]] – which occurred just before he was to accompany the [[Jean de Montluc|bishop of Valence]] on an embassy to [[Poland]] – caused Scaliger to flee, alongside other [[Huguenot]]s, to [[Geneva]], where he was appointed a professor at [[University of Geneva|the Academy of Geneva]]. While there, he lectured on [[Aristotle|Aristotle's]] ''[[Organon]]'' and [[Cicero|Cicero's]] ''De Finibus'' to much satisfaction for the students, but not appreciating it himself. He hated lecturing and was bored with the persistence of the fanatical preachers, accordingly in 1574 he returned to France and made his home for the next twenty years with Chastaigner.{{sfn|Christie|Sandys|1911|p=284}}

Of his life during this period we have interesting details and notices in the ''Lettres françaises inédites de Joseph Scaliger'', edited by Tamizey de Larroque (Agen, 1881). Constantly moving through [[Poitou]] and the [[Limousin (province)|Limousin]], as the exigencies of the civil war required, occasionally taking his turn as a guard, at least on one occasion trailing a pike on an expedition against the Leaguers, with no access to libraries, and frequently separated even from his own books, his life during this period seems most unsuited to study. He had, however, what so few contemporary scholars possessed — leisure and freedom from financial cares.{{sfn|Christie|Sandys|1911|p=284}}