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among the scholars of the whole world, move with vehemence. Firstly, because you can rightfully claim the fruits of this work on marriage, which we have broken down contrary to the general opinion by a variety of readings, and which was debated at the Academy of Bourges. For having been educated among the Pictones people of the Poitou region by Carolus Sapiens Charles the Wise and informed in the principles of law, I was eventually instructed at our Bourges Academy by Duarenus, and having been granted the degree of both laws canon and civil law, I began to lecture on Civil Law without interruption, following the prayers of the highest magistrates of that city, and the citizens, and with the happy noise of a crowd of students, joined by their goodwill. The burden of this office, obeying my parent (by duty), I am now leaving—my private means being insufficient for the most pleasant association of my children—after many intervals of students have passed, with a sweetness conceived in my mind, to their and my greatest sorrow, and I aspire to the most ample order of the Parisian Senate, so that I may—now worn by age—