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[English Translation] rate and in simple clothes. For no one wears anything but sarges, camelots, canvases, or such small fabrics. What also helps them very much is the liberality of their rich brothers and companions, who have nothing dear for their friends, but almost all goods are in common among them. There are no quarrels or duels. On the contrary, there is all concord, goodwill, joy and pastime. If there are disputes, it is on the arts and sciences, where one fights bravely with words and reasons, either at table, or at parleys, at which they find themselves every day, coming out of the great Schools to hear the Rhetoricians, Mathematicians, Philosophers, Physicians, Lawyers and Theologians, whom the King maintains near his palace, so that each one can continually learn new things, and confirm himself in those which one has learned. The door of the Academy is also not forbidden to them when they wish to go there, which is not permitted to anyone else, the Council not wanting so many beautiful precepts to be communicated to foreigners and to the people. In this way they remain six months a year at Court, when they are not employed |
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