Besides  which,  they  soon  began  to  quarrel  with  the  regular
•clergy,  who  did  not  hesitate  to  call  them  publicly  by  the  name
of  hypocrites.  Indeed,  one  of  the  doctors  of  the  Sorbonne  (that
is  to  say,  a  professor  belonging  to  the  Theological  Faculty  of
Paris),*  published  a  pamphlet  against  them,  in  which  he  pointed
•out  to  the  Government  that  the  best  thing  to  be  done  with  them
would  be  to  hunt  them  at  once  out  of  the  country  with  disgrace
■and  ignominy  as  beggars  and  vagabonds.
This  was,  indeed,  but  a  bad  beginning,  and  a  rough  snubbing
into  the  bargain ;  but  they  were  soon  to  fare  better.  In  the
year  1549,  Cardinal  Charles  of  Loraine,  one  of  the  most  in-
"fluential  men  in  France  at  that  time,  who  belonged  to  the  equally
powerful  as  wealthy  house  of  Guise,  made  a  journey  to  the  Papal
■<3ourt  of  Rome ;  and  here  Ignatius  Loyola  contrived,  by  flattering
iis  passions,  to  gain  him  over  to  such  an  extent  that  the  former

*  About  the  year  1250,  Bobert,  born  at  Sorbonne,  in  Champagne,  Chau-
■cellor  of  Louis  the  Holy,  founded  in  Paris  a  "  Collegium  Pauperum  Magis-
trorum  Studentium  in  Theologica  Facilitate,"  that  is  to  say,  an  educational
institution  for  poor  young  secular  priests,  which  institution  was  designated
.after  the  founder  "  the  Sorbonne."  Whilst,  however,  the  duty  of  teaching
in  the  same  devolved  upon  the  professors  of  the  Theological  Faculty  of  the
University  of  Paris,  the  said  name  was  latterly  attached  to  the  Theological
J'aculty  itself,  and  from  the  14th  century  it  never  went  by  any  other  than  the
-"  Sorbonne."


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