Excerpt from Toulouse in the Renaissance; The Floral Games; University and Student Life, Vol. 1: Etienne Dolet (1532-1534)

Although my first intention was to study the Floral Games only, I perceived while Perusing the pages of the Livre Rouge that many of the young poets were students in the university. As a result of the interest stimulated by this discovery, I have devoted Part II of my study to university and student life at Toulouse in the sixteenth century. After a preliminary sketch Of the founding of the university and its history during the mediaeval period, I have attempted in broad outline to picture university life in the sixteenth century, portraying especially the intellectual and political struggles of the first half of the century, particularly of the decade from 1530 to 154o, -the clashes between the humanists and reactionaries, the earlier phases of the Reformation, the bitter rivalry for precedence on the part of the capitouls, the seneschalty and the parlement the struggles of the professors and students to retain their ancient privi leges; the reorganization of the student fraternities or nations, and the role played by them in the stirring drama of the Renais sance. In dealing with the second half of the century, I have attempted to outline the course of events leading up to the Protestant Conspiracy of I 562, and finally to the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In both of these tragic events the students had a conspicuous part, especially in the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, which, at Toulouse. Was in the main conducted by students. Many names celebrated in French literature and history are connected with Toulouse in the sixteenth century, among them Jean de Pins, Guillaume Budé, Michel de l'hospital, Etienne Dolet, Jean Voulté, Etienne Pasquier, de Thou, Henri de Mesmes, Jean de Boysson, Cujas, Rabelais, Margaret of Navarre, Jean de Coras, Arnauld Ferrier, and many others.

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