Paris (France) -- Description and travel; Paris (France) -- History
[71] Par. X. 136. "Who lecturing in Straw St. deduced truths that
brought him hatred."
[72] Benvenuto was certainly in France and possibly in Paris during
the fourteenth century. At any rate he would be familiar with Parisian
students, many of whom were Italians.
[73] In the seventeenth century the councillors had increased to one
hundred and twenty and the courts to seven.
[74] The term "Parlement" was originally applied to the transaction of
the common business of a monastic establishment after the conclusion
of the daily chapter.
[75] The contemporary chronicler, Villani, says of one of these
scoundrels that he "was named Nosso Dei, one of our Florentines, a man
filled with every vice."
[76] The indictment covers seven quarto pages. The charges may be
briefly classified as blasphemy, heresy, spitting and trampling on the
crucifix, obscene and secret rites, and unnatural crimes.
[77] There is a significant entry on page 273 of the published trial:
_in ista pagina nihil est scriptum_. The empty page tells of the
moment when the papal commissioners, having heard that the fifty-four
had been burned, suspended the sitting.
[78] _Nihil sibi appropriare intendebat._
[79] Or the isle of the Jews, which, with its sister islet of Bussy,
were subsequently joined to the island of the Cité, and now form the
Place Dauphine and the land that divides the Pont Neuf. Philip watched
the fires from his palace garden.
[80] It is to be hoped that some English scholar will do for these
most important records, the earliest report of any great criminal
trial which we possess, what Mr T. Douglas Murray has done for the
Trial and Rehabilitation of Joan of Arc.
[81] During John the Good's reign, the province of Dauphiny had been
added to the French crown, and the king's eldest son took the title of
Dauphin.
[82] So called from the familiar appellation "Jacques Bonhomme,"
applied half in contempt, half in jest, by the seigneurs to the
peasants who served them in the wars.
[83] The bastilles were fortified castles before the chief gates of
Paris.
[84] Howell mentions the locution in a letter dated 1654.
[85] Charles taxed and borrowed heavily. Even the members of his
household were importuned for loans, however small. His cook lent him
frs. 67.50.
[86] The scene is quaintly illustrated in an illuminated copy of
Froissart in the British Museum.
[87] The scene of the assassination is marked by an escutcheon and an
inscription.
[88] They melted down the reliquaries in the Paris churches.
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