held in the ducal, afterwards royal chapel of Dijon yields documents which are unique, because they are in French verse. The first is a _mandement_ of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, in 1454, confirming, on the request of the _haut-Bâtonnier_, the privilege of the fête, against those who would abolish it. He declares ‘Que cette Fête célébrée Soit à jamais un jour l’année, Le premier du mois de Janvier; Et que joyeux Fous sans dangier, De l’habit de notre Chapelle, Fassent la Fête bonne et belle, Sans outrage ni derision.’ In 1477 Louis XI seized Burgundy, and in 1482 his representatives, Jean d’Amboise, bishop and duke of Langres, lieutenant of the duchy, and Baudricourt the governor, accorded to Guy Baroset ‘Protonotaire et Procureur des Foux,’ a fresh confirmation for the privilege of the feast held by ‘Le Bâtonnier et tous ses vrais suppôts[1108].’ There was a second feast in Dijon at the church of St. Stephen. In 1494 it was the custom here, as at Sens, to shave the ‘precentor’ of Fools upon a stage before the church. In 1621 the vicars still paraded the streets with music and lanterns in honour of their ‘precentor[1109].’ In 1552, however, the Feasts of Fools throughout Burgundy had been prohibited by an _arrêt_ of the _Parlement_ of Dijon. This was immediately provoked by the desire of the chapter of St. Vincent’s at Châlons-sur-Saône to end the scandal of the feast under their jurisdiction. It was, however, general in its terms, and probably put an end to the _Chapelle_ feast at Dijon, since to about this period may be traced the origin of the famous _compagnie_ of the _Mère-Folle_ in that city[1110].