White — Elias Bouhereau of La Rochelle. 133 



not one of the college staff. He was the pastor of the congregation of the 

 Eeformecl at Saumur ; and, according to Delaizement, he abjured his faith 

 under pressure in later years. Bouhereau lived with him while attending 

 classes at the Academy. 



The young Bouhereau was a diligent student. We have proof of this 

 in seven carefully written volumes of notes of lectures written out at Saumur 

 in 1657, 1658, and 1659.^ The first of these are the lectures of a person 

 named Doull on rhetoric and the use of the globes ; the remaining six are on 

 philosophy and logic, the lectures of Isaac Hugo. Among Bouhereau's books 

 are two by Hugo : Summa Brevis Dodrinae Metaphysicae, 1649, and 

 Ethica, 1657, both published at Saumur. 



Saumur was not a divinity school, although there candidate pastors 

 received their intellectual equipment. Among the many friendships begun 

 there by Bouhereau were two with laymen of noble rank, the Marquis 

 Turon de Beyrie and Richier de Cerisy. And the intellectual and literary 

 interests which seem to have been instilled into the young men were 

 certainly by no means those of a seminary, or exclusively religious. De Cerisy 

 writes on February 9, IGGG : — " II n'y a point encore d'Ovide en ma biblio- 

 theque, mais j'espere qu'il y en aura bientost, et que tout galant qu'il est, mes 

 theologiens I'y souffriront aussi bien qu'Horace et Petrone et les Priapees de 

 Scioppii qu'ils y endurent tres patiemment." The same divided allegiance is 

 reflected in the letters of a youth who was Bouhereau's dearest friend, Paul 

 Bauldry ; for example, we read in a letter of November 15, 1662 : — " J'ay 

 aujourdhuy prie un homme qui est en Angleterre de chercher le 13 tome des 

 Cent, de Magd. et des exempl. d'un livre intitule Priapeia Scoppii." Strange 

 company for the highly respectable Madgeburg Centuriators ! And these 

 were not by any means vicious or profligate young men. Later on they will 

 become austere enough. Turon de Beyrie rallies Bouhereau on his puritanical 

 manners, in his letter of October 23, 1674 : — " J'ay craint extremement que 

 dans ma derniere lettre il ne me fut echappe quelque chose qui t'eut scandalise ; 

 car je remarque qvie M"' les Beats, au nombre desquels je prendray la liberty 

 de te mettre, sont extremement sensibles et delicats. 11 faut que pour me 

 vanger je te die une chose que j'ay decouverte en ta personne depuis que tu 

 fais metier de devotion, c'est que centre le genie de nostre Pieligion, qui la 

 veut masle et vigoureuse, tu as charge la tienne de grimaces, et je trouve 

 pitoyable qu'aymant naturellement les plaisirs, tu ayes creu qu'il estoit de la 

 severite d'un Ancien de se priver de la dance et de la musique. Tu vois par 

 la que je me souviens de la maniere dont te firent fuir un soir les hauts-bois 



' See Appendix : List of Bouhereau MSS. 

 B. I. A. PROC, VOL. XX\^I., SECT. C. [21] 



