UNIVERSITIES, SCHOOLS, STUDENTS. 



was in the cloisters of Notre-Dame that those gifted masters, William of 

 Champeaux and Anselm of Laon, whose lessons he at first received, but 

 both of whom he eventually surpassed, taught their pupils. Fifty years 

 later there came the dawn of the University, for Henry II., King of England, 

 proposed to submit the matters in dispute between himself and Thomas 

 a Becket to the arbitrament of the schools of the various nr/fioK studying at 

 Paris. This proof of esteem for the scholars of Paris says a great deal for 



Fig. 10. Seal of the Rheims University (1568). 



From the Sigillographic Collection in the National Archives. 



Fig. 11. Counter-Seal of the 

 Rheims University (1568). 



the reputation which the cosmopolitan University must have enjoyed at that 

 period, not only in France, but throughout Europe. In the year 1200 a 

 charter from Philip Augustus, dated Bethesy, in which may be discovered 

 almost the foundation of the privileges of the University, shows us this 

 institution being carried on under a head whose immunity from the inter- 

 ference of the ordinary law is solemnly guaranteed, together with that of all 

 its members. Lastly, in 1260, the University body stands out fully organized, 

 and having attained its complete development. 



