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THE SCHOLARS OF THE RENAISSANCE 55
In the year 1529, the Treaty of Cambrai was ratified and
brought peace in the wars between Francis and Charles V.
Security reigned, and the French King was glad to seize
the opportunity to indulge his favourite passion for building.
At this particular time he also had cause for private irrita-
tion with the Sorbonne and, always the creature of impulse,
was by no means unwilling to play it a bad turn. So when
Bude diplomatically suggested the erection, not of a formid-
able University, but of a modest little “ College universa-
taire,” to consist of two Chairs for Greek and Hebrew—and
when Margaret added her persuasions—he gave an easy
consent. Even after this, it was to her that the College
and the choice of the Professors was really due. The im-
pressionable King loved the beginning of a scheme rather
than its completion. He cared much more to talk with
experts upon all subjects, whether art, war or wisdom, than
to master any one of them. Amateur that he was, he
enjoyed visiting houses of learning, or artists in their studios
with his “Mignonne”—so he called his sister; but when it
came to choosing the right person for the right place, it
was she who took the lead without letting him suspect it.
She never performed this office better than for the College
de France, helped as she was by the counsel of such men
as Bude, Erasmus, Pierre Duchatel, the King’s Reader, and
Guillaume Petit, the enlightened Bishop of Senlis, her own
and her brother’s Confessor. In 1530, the Professorships
had increased from two to five. The Greek Chairs were
occupied by Toussaint, the friend of Erasmus, and by Danes,
a nobleman of Paris; the Hebrew ones by Vatable, Paul
Paradis, and one of Margaret’s Italian proteges. Gradually
In the year 1529, the Treaty of Cambrai was ratified and
brought peace in the wars between Francis and Charles V.
Security reigned, and the French King was glad to seize
the opportunity to indulge his favourite passion for building.
At this particular time he also had cause for private irrita-
tion with the Sorbonne and, always the creature of impulse,
was by no means unwilling to play it a bad turn. So when
Bude diplomatically suggested the erection, not of a formid-
able University, but of a modest little “ College universa-
taire,” to consist of two Chairs for Greek and Hebrew—and
when Margaret added her persuasions—he gave an easy
consent. Even after this, it was to her that the College
and the choice of the Professors was really due. The im-
pressionable King loved the beginning of a scheme rather
than its completion. He cared much more to talk with
experts upon all subjects, whether art, war or wisdom, than
to master any one of them. Amateur that he was, he
enjoyed visiting houses of learning, or artists in their studios
with his “Mignonne”—so he called his sister; but when it
came to choosing the right person for the right place, it
was she who took the lead without letting him suspect it.
She never performed this office better than for the College
de France, helped as she was by the counsel of such men
as Bude, Erasmus, Pierre Duchatel, the King’s Reader, and
Guillaume Petit, the enlightened Bishop of Senlis, her own
and her brother’s Confessor. In 1530, the Professorships
had increased from two to five. The Greek Chairs were
occupied by Toussaint, the friend of Erasmus, and by Danes,
a nobleman of Paris; the Hebrew ones by Vatable, Paul
Paradis, and one of Margaret’s Italian proteges. Gradually