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 342 THE MASTERS OF PARIS AND CHARTRES July associated with Tours ; but Paris was the focus to which scholars of his time gravitated, and if it be the fact, as was reputed,^ that Bernard's Cosmographia was presented to Eugenius III, this most naturally points to his residence at Paris, for the pope's travels did not extend to Tours and he was at Paris in the spring of 1147. It may also be noticed that, though John of Salisbury never mentions the name of Bernard Silvestris, he made considerable use of his commentary on the Aeneid, with which he may have become acquainted when both scholars were living at Paris ; but this is only a surmise. Nor can we exclude the possibility that Bernard is the Bernard who appears as chancellor of Chartres about 1156,^ and whose obit is recorded under 4 August in the necrology of that church.^ He is named from his birthplace Bernard of Moelan, and was made bishop of Quimper in 1159. He died in 1167.* This last identification involves no chrono- logical difficulty, but at present it must remain a conjecture. In reviewing the list of scholars one is struck by the wide range from which Paris drew. Among the thirteen named in the Metamorphosis five were of Breton origin, three English, and one Lombard. John of Salisbury does not mention all of them, but he adds, besides the Frenchman Alberic, two Normans and one German, of whom nothing is recorded elsewhere. The compara- tive youth of some of the company is also noticeable ; of the two who became bishops in England Adam of the Petit Pont lived until 1181 and Bartholomew until 1184. Reginald L. Poole. > See above, p. 328.
 * Clerval, £cole8 de Chartres, p. 173.
 * Cartulaire de Notre-Dame de Chartres, iii. 148.
 * See Haur^u, in Mitn. de VAcad. dts Inscr., xxxi. ii. 86 £