He had taken his place by turns, as the reader has seen, in the conferences of the theologians in Sorbonne,−−in the assemblies of the doctors of art, after the manner of Saint−Hilaire,−−in the disputes of the decretalists, after the manner of Saint−Martin,−−in the congregations of physicians at the holy water font of Notre− Dame, ~ad cupam Nostroe−Dominoe~.
Il avait, disait-on, goûté successivement toutes les pommes de l’arbre de l’intelligence, et, faim ou dégoût, il avait fini par mordre au fruit défendu.