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Rh being at that time chancellor of Chartres, who was afterwards the venerable bishop of Poitiers, leave us in no doubt as to the locality. It was at Chartres therefore that John laid the foundation of his classical learning, and under Bernard's successors, William of Conches and Richard l’Évêque; the latter, as he proceeds to explain, ''a man whose training was deficient almost in nothing, who had more heart even than speech, more knowledge than skill, more truth than vanity, more virtue than show: and the things I had learned from others I collected all again from him, and certain things too I learned which I had not before heard and which appertain to the Quadrivium, wherein formerly I had for some time followed the German Hardwin. I read also again rhetoric, which aforetime I had scarce understood when it was treated of meagrely by master Theodoric'', the brother of Bernard, who also became in time chancellor of Chartres and who shared his philosophical, if not exactly his literary, interest. The same I afterwards received more plenteously at the hand of Peter Helias, a teacher who is known to us only as a grammarian, and as a grammarian of high repute; his surviving works being a Commentary