[61] Brunetto Latini, in the thirteenth century contrasted the high towers and grim stone walls of the fortress-palaces of the Italian nobles with the large, spacious and painted houses of the French, their rooms adorned pour avoir joie et delit (to have joy and delight) and surrounded with orchards and gardens.
[62] Another delusion of moderns is that there was an absence of personal cleanliness in those ages. In the census of the inhabitants of Paris, who in 1292 were subject to the Taille, there are inscribed the names of no less than twenty-six proprietors of public baths: a larger proportion to population than exists to-day.
[63] Hence the name of clerc applied to any student, even if a layman.
[64] “Love is quickly caught in gentle heart.”
[65] Afterwards bishop of London.
[66] The two churches still existed in the eighteenth century and stood on the site of the southern Cours Visconti and Lefuel of the present Louvre.
[67] The actual originator was, however, the queen’s physician, Robert de Douai, who left a sum of money which formed the nucleus of the foundation.
[68] The Montaigue scholars were called capetes from their peculiar cape fermée, or cloak, such as Masters of Arts used to wear. The Bibliothèque St. Genevieve occupies the site of the college.
[69] The Rue des Anglais still exists in the Latin Quarter.
[70] This interesting twelfth-century building will be found in the Rue St. Julien le Pauvre, and is now used as a Uniat Greek church.