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faculties closed their schools, and threatened to emigrate in a body, taking 

 with them ;i whole army of ushers and clients, who formed nearly a third of 

 the population of Paris. No power existed in the thirteenth century capable 

 of holding out long against this silent and inflexible protest. 



Thus, in 1221, the University, having to complain of some undue exer- 

 cise of authority by the Bishop of Paris, closed its schools for six months. 

 In similar circumstances, four years later, the Papal Legate was assailed in 

 his own house by a band of armed- students, who wounded several of his 

 retinue, and would have maltreated him if he had not avoided capture. At 



Fig. 21. St. Louis, King of France, going to SLttins ht the Cordeliers Church, Paris, "ung 

 estudiant par mesprison lui tumba son orinal sur son chief." The King, instead of punish- 

 ing the student, gave him the prebendary of St. Quentin, en Vermandois, " because he was 

 in the habit of getting up at this hour to study." Miniature of Manuscript of the Fifteenth 

 Century. Burgundy Library, Brussels. 



the close of the Carnival of 1228, Queen Blanche, who was Regent during 

 the minority of her son, Louis IX., inflicted severe punishment upon the 

 students who, under the influence of drink, had committed great disorder and 

 had shed blood in the Faubourg of St. Marcel. The University, finding 

 the romonst ranees which it in consequence addressed to the King of no 

 effect, dismissed the students and masters to their respective homes, left the 

 capital for two years under an interdict, and only consented to resume the 



