reek, the attention given to
it was more apparent than real. "Car mesmes lors qu'il estoit question
de l'expliquer, ceste parole couroit en la bouche de plusieurs ignorans,
_Graecum est, non legitur_." The very Latin, which was the language in
ordinary use, was rude and clumsy. Recherches de la France, 831.]

[Footnote 71: La Harpe, Cours de literature, vi. 405.]

[Footnote 72: Gaillard, Histoire de Francois premier (Paris ed., 1769),
vii. 282-300. Felibien, among the many interesting documents he has
preserved, reproduces one of the first programmes of the professors of
the College Royal, preserved from destruction, doubtless, simply from
the circumstance that it formed the ground of a citation of the
professors by the syndic of the university (Beda), January, 1534,
wherein he alleges that "some simple grammarians or rhetoricians, who
had not studied with the faculty, had undertaken to read in public and
to interpret the Holy Scriptures, as appears from certain bills posted
in the streets and squares of Paris." In the programme, Agathius
Guidacerius, Francis Vatable, P. Arnesius (Danesius), and Paul Paradisus
figure as lecturing--the first two upon the Psalms, the third on
Aristotle, and the last on Hebrew grammar and the book of Proverbs.
Michel Felibien, Histoire de la ville de Paris (Paris, 1725), iv. 682.]

[Footnote 73: The law of 1523 thus sets forth some of their exploits:
"Outre mesure multiplient leurs pilleries, cruautez et meschancetez,
jusques a vouloir assaillir _les villes closes_: les aucunes desquelles
ils out prinses d'assaut, saccagees, robees et pillees, force filles et
femmes, tue les habitans inhumainement, et cruellement traitte les
aucuns _en leur crevant les yeux, et coupant les membres les uns apres
les autres, sans en avoir pitie, faisant ce que cruelles bestes ne
feroient_," etc. Isambert, Recueil des lois anc., xii. 216. See also
Journal d'un bourgeois de Paris (1516), 36; and Lettres de Marguerite
d'Angouleme, Nouvelle Coll., lettre 7.]

[Footnote 74: Journal d'un bourgeois (1516), 37.]

[Footnote 75: Ibid, (anno 1527), 328.]

[Footnote 76: Ibid., 36. It would appear that even this penalty did not
deter them from the commission of their infamous crimes, for a fresh
edict, in 1523 (Isambert, xii., 216), prescribes that for exemplary
punishment "lesdicts blasphemateurs execrables avant que souffrir mort,
_ayent la gorge ouverte avec un fer chaud et la langue tiree ou coupee
par les dess