end CUNYB/Clarke December, :
Notes to Pages–.Joachim Descartes was appointed onDecemberand took up his post
February.Ropartz (),.
.Only three children survived, and thus Ren ́e was the youngest (see family tree).
.Descartes to Elizabeth, May, and Descartes to Chanut,Feb.(iv.,
–).
.v..
.The parish church of his grandmother was Notre Dame de La Haye, which was
marginally closer to her home, but Descartes was baptized in the somewhat larger
church of St. George. The town of La Haye has since been renamed in honour of
its most famous citizen as ‘Descartes’.
.Mousnier ().
.Ari`es (), iii..
.Mousnier (),.
.Montaigne (), I. xxiii (p.).
.Mousnier (), ii..
.On the widespread buying and selling of offices, see Mousnier ().
.See especially Mousnier () and Collins ().
.Mousnier (),.
.This is not the same person as Jeanne Sain, wife of Ren ́e Brochard and grandmother
to Rene Descartes. I am grateful to Theo Verbeek for drawing my attention to ́
Thouverez (), and to the confusion of the two people with the same name
that is repeated in Armogathe et al. ().
.Session VII,March; Denzinger (),a–.
.‘Canon:Ifanyonesaysthat true and natural water is not necessary for
baptism...let him be anathema.’ Denzinger (),.
.‘Canon:Ifanyoneclaims that the baptized are free from all the precepts of the
Church...so that they are not required to observe them, unless they choose by
their own initiative to submit to them, let him be anathema.’ Denzinger (),
.
.TheChambre des comptesaudited accounts of the royal tax officials and had juris-
diction over applications for tax exemption in the province.
.They also had two others, Claude (b.) and Franc ̧ois (b.), about whom
little is known.
.Erasmus (),.‘Achild sitting with those who are older than him should never
speak unless forced by necessity or invited to do so....Silence adorns women, but
even more so children.’
.Erasmus (),.
.Descartes to Chanut,June(v.).
.The prominence of the Jesuits in education did not mean that they were the
only providers of education in France in the early seventeenth century. There
were other colleges that were established and operated by local authorities, and
there were colleges, such as the famous college at Saumur, that were explicitly
Huguenot. Even among Catholic educators, the Oratorians developed a network
of colleges in France in the later seventeenth century. During the period when