(\\/r/-:fti>/TJi-:s. SCHOOLS, STI'J>I-:.\/S. 



It is necessary to give a summary sketch of this ingenious and complex 

 organization, as it may be gathered from the researches of Yallet do Viriville 

 and those of the learned M. Charles Joimluin, the last historian of the 

 I" Diversity of Paris. 



From the very beginning a natural division established itself between the 

 young men whom the fame of the great Parisian school attracted thither 

 from all parts of Christendom. The students grouped themselves into nations, 



Fig. 12. Seal of the Aix University 

 in 1'rovence (Sixteenth Century). 



Fig 13. Great Seal of the Bourges University 

 (Fifteenth Century). 



From the Sigillograpliic Collection in tho National Archives. 



and these nations having adopted, by analogy of language, interests, and 

 sympathy, a more regular form, there were but four nations : that of France 

 (Figs. 2 and 3), that of England (Figs. 4 and 5), that of Normandy (Figs. 6 

 and 7), and that of Picardy (Figs. 8 and 9). The French nation consisted of 

 live tribes, which included the bishoprics or metropolitan provinces of Paris, 

 Beu, Rheims, and Bourges (Figs. 10 to 13), and all the south of Europe, 

 so that a Spaniard or an Italian, who came to study at Paris, was comprised in 



