, 8, 31. The Sorbonne, founded by Robert
Sorbon, confessor to St. Louis, was an association resembling one of
the Oxford or Cambridge colleges, that is to say, a corporation
possessing a building, revenues, rules, regulations and boarders; its
object was to afford instruction in the theological sciences; its
titular members, numbering about a hundred, were mostly bishops,
vicars-general, canons, cur?s in Paris and in the principal towns.
Men of distinction were prepared in it at the expense of the Church.
- The examinations for the doctorate were the tentative, the mineure,
the Sorbonique and the majeure. A talent for discussion and argument
was particularly developed. - Cf. Ernest Renan, "Souvenirs d'Enfance
et de Jeunesse," p.279, (on St. Sulpice and the study of Theology).
[71] Cf. the files of the clergy in the States-General, and the
reports of ecclesiastics in the provincial assemblies.
[72] "The Revolution," p.72. (Ed. Lafont I, p 223 etc.)
[73] In some dioceses, notably that of Besan?on, the rural parishes
were served by distinguished men. (Sauzay, I., 16.) "It was not
surprising to encounter a man of European reputation, like Bergier, so
long cur? of Flangebouche; an astronomer of great merit, like M.
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