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OP Buridan, ass and all ended up in the Seine, for what reason I don't know.
From François Villon's Ballade des dames du temps jadis:
Où est la très sage Helloïs, ,
Pour qui fut chastré et puis moyne
Pierre Esbaillart à Saint-Denis?
Pour son amour ot cest essoyne.
Semblablement, où est la royne
Qui commanda que Buridan
Fust gecté en ung sac en Saine?
Mais où sont les neiges d'antan!
Where is the very wise Heloise,
For whom was castrated, and then (made) a monk,
Pierre Esbaillart (Abelard) in Saint-Denis ?
For his love he suffered this sentence.
Similarly, where is the Queen (Jeanne de Navarre)
Who ordered that Buridan
Be thrown in a sack into the Seine?
Oh, where are the snows of yesteryear!
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