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 ^2g FRANCE. the immunities on the preservation of which, in the previous cen- tury, it had staked its existence. In savage mockery of its wrath, when building the Petit-Chatelet, he named two foul dungeons after two of the principal quarters of the University, le Clos Bruneau and la Rue du Foing, saying that they were intended for the students. Under the strong rule of Charles Y. the University had to digest its wrongs as best it could, but after his death, m 1380 it eagerly watched its opportunity. This was not long m coming, nor, in the rivalry between the Dukes of Berri and Bur- gundy, was it difficult to enlist the former against Aubriot as a Burgundian. The rule of the princes, at once feeble and despotic, invited disorder, and when the people, November 25, 1380, rose against the Jews, pillaged their houses, and forcibly baptized their children, Aubriot incurred the implacable enmity of the Church by forcing a restoration of the infants to their parents. The com- bination against him thus became too strong for the court to re- sist. It vielded, and on January 21, 1381, he was cited to appear before the bishop and inquisitor. IJe disdained to obey the sum- mons, and his excommunication for contumacy was pubhshed m all the churches of Paris. This compelled obedience, and when he came before the inquisitor, on February 1, he was at once thrown into the episcopal prison while his trial proceeded. The charges were most frivolous, except the affair of the Jewish children and his having released from the Chatelet a prisoner accused of her- esy, placed there by the inquisitor. It was alleged that on one occasion one of his sergeants had excused himself for delay by say- ing that he had waited at church to see God (the elevation of the Host) when Aubriot angrily rejoined, " Sirrah, know ye not that I have more power to harm you than God to help ;" and agam that when some one had told him that they would see God m a mass celebrated by Silvestre de la CerveUe, Bishop of Coutances, he rephed that God would not pefmit himself to be handled by such a man as the bishop. His enemies were so exasperated that on the strength of this flimsy gossip he was actuaUy condemned ' to be burned without the privilege allowed to all heretics of sav- ing himself by abjuration ; but the princes intervened and suc- ceeded in obtaining this for him. He had no reason to complair of undue delay. On May 17 a solemn auto defe was held. On a scaffold erected in front of Notre Dame, Aubriot humbly con