 Even should a general council be in session, a colloquy between Frenchmen convened by the king was the better way of settling religious disputes; for a general council, being mostly composed of foreigners, was deemed incapable of understanding the wishes and the needs of France.The spokesman of the Reformed Church was Beza, who, in the first session, gave a lengthy exposition of its tenets.Beza's speech explained the principles of the Reformed understanding of the Eucharist; it was later revised, amended, and published in France.