Note 12 — I.—INTRODUCTION.

Counsellor and Chamberlain of Charles VI.—then prévôt of the City of Paris, 1401-1408—afterwards président de la chambre des comptes until his death (1414)—widely known on account of his execution of two clerks of the Université, guilty of assassination, whom he had hanged at night by torchlight and left attached to the gibbet for four months, when they were cut down and buried by Pierre des Essars (a creature of the duc de Bourgogne), who thus was able to infringe the commission of full power given Guillaume de Tignonville, June 21, 1401—of noble lineage, wise, a fine orator, and highly esteemed by the king—the translator, before becoming prévôt of Paris, of the Dicta Philosophorum under the title Livre des Philosophes. (Cf. P. Paris, Manuscrits français, IV., pp. 92-97, 173.)