Note 1056 — Chapter XIII · THE FEAST OF FOOLS

Prov. C. of Rouen (1445), c. 11 (Labbé, xiii. 1304) ‘prohibet haec sancta synodus ludos qui fatuorum vulgariter nuncupantur cum larvatis faciebus et alias inhoneste fieri in ecclesiis aut cemeteriis’; Prov. C. of Sens (1485, repeats decrees of earlier council of 1460), c. 3 (Labbé, xiii. 1728), quoting and adopting Basle decree, with careful exception for consuetudines of Nativity and Resurrection; cf. ch. xx; Dioc. C. of Chartres (1526, apparently repeated 1550, tit. 16; cf. Du Tilliot, 62) quoted Bochellus, iv. 7. 46 ‘denique ab Ecclesia eiiciantur vestes fatuorum personas scenicas agentium’; Nat. C. of Paris (1528, held by Abp. of Sens as primate), Decr. Morum, c. 16 (Labbé, xiv. 471) ‘prohibemus ne fiat deinceps festum fatuorum aut innocentium, neque erigatur decanatus patellae.’ The Prov. C. of Rheims (1456, held at Soissons) in Labbé, xiii. 1397, mentions only ‘larvales et theatrales ioci,’ ‘choreae,’ ‘tripudia,’ but refers explicitly to the Pragmatic Sanction. This, it may be observed, was suspended for a while in 1461 and finally annulled in 1516. Still more general are the terms of the C. of Orleans (1525, repeated 1587; Du Tilliot, 61); C. of Narbonne (1551), c. 46 (Labbé, xv. 26); C. of Beauvais (1554; E. Fleury, Cinquante Ans de Laon, 53); C. of Cambrai (1565), vi. 11 (Labbé, xv. 160); C. of Rheims (1583), c. 5 (Labbé, xv. 889); C. of Tours (1583, quoted Bochellus, iv. 7. 40). See also the councils quoted as to the Boy Bishop, in ch. xv. Finally, the C. of Trent, although in its 22nd session (1562) it renewed the decrees of popes and councils ‘de choreis, aleis, lusibus’ (Decr. de Reformatione, c. 1), made no specific mention of ‘fatui’ (Can. et Decr. Sacros. Oec. Conc. Tridentini, (Romae, 1845), 127). Probably the range of the feast was by this time insignificant.