D. H. Carnnhan — Mahtre Eloy dn Mont, diet (Jonfe'iitin. 98 



Pavfaict en France est l'escrii)t propheticque, 

 Justice et Paix se baisent au diet lieu. 

 (II) Justice, Iniquite corrompt, 

 Et Paix a Guerre le col romp, 



fol. 10, recto (XI); " Franci, Francisco, felices pace fruuntur." The 

 third war between Francis I and Charles V lasted from 153G until 

 the truce of Nice in 15.38, after which ensued a peace of four years 

 duration. If we give weight to the above rather uncertain refer- 

 ences, the present work was written between the years 1538 and 1542. 



By way of summary, and with the addition of a few facts obtained 

 from the text, we may say that the work under consideration was 

 written about 1538 by Eloy du Mont, a layman living in the city of 

 Caen. He was a teacher in a boys' school, and was assisted in the 

 production of his text by several of his pupils. The work was 

 dedicated to the king Francis I, in recognition of a gift made to the 

 author, possibly as a reward for the production of the mystery of 

 " La Resurrection," represented during one of the king's trips to 

 Normandy. The poet was skilled in Latin, but if we may judge 

 from his own statements, he preferred writing in Fi'ench, a language 

 in whose poetical forms he was well versed, and which was more 

 popular at court than the Latin.' 



Much more accessible is information as to the life of Faust Andre- 

 lin, whose Latin distichs, together with their translations and appen- 

 dices, occupy twenty-seven folios of the manuscript. In the " Dic- 

 tionaire historique" of Moreri is found the following biography, 

 to which I have joined, in the form of notes, a few additional facts 

 obtained from the " Bibliotheque f ran9oise " of Du Yerdier : — 

 Andrelinus (Publius Faustus), natif de Forli en Italic, excella dans 

 la poesie des sa jeunesse, et merita a I'age de vingt-deux ans la 

 couronne de laurier, que I'academie de Rome donnoit a ceux qui 

 avoient reussi. Ce f ut sa piece poetique, intitulee " Livia " qui 

 remporta ce prix. II vint a Paris, oil il fut long-temps professeur en 

 poesie, en rhetorique, et en sphere dans I'universite, sous les 

 regnes de Charles VIII et de Louis XII." II y publia en 1490 son 



' See "Les Poesies," fol. 12, verso, and "La Resurrection," folios 1, recto 

 and 2, verso). 



- Du Verdier, I, p. 567 ; Le Roi. Louis XII, en consequence d'un voeu qu'il 

 fit h. la sainte Hostie de Dijon, pendant une lualadie qu'il eut, en 1505, ayant 

 recoixvre sa sante, envoya, en reconnoissance, k la Chapelle Royale, ou cette 

 Hostie est conservee, la propre Couronne, qu'il avoit portee a Reims, le jour de 

 son Sacre ; sur quoi Fauste ayant fait douze vers Elegiaques, le Roi lui donna, 

 pour recompense, un Canonicat k Bayeux. (M. de la Monnoye.) 



