 The end of the Victorines as a unique force came by 1173, when the reactionary Walter was appointed as prior.Walter launched a furious attack upon the intellectual culture of the school and its members with his "Contra quatuor labyrinthos Francae" (Against the Four Labyrinths of France), a denunciation of secular theological teaching.After this violent repudiation of Victorine pedagogical tradition the abbey was, in effect, a self-contained Augustinian priory like any other.