Dear tsuwm: I get Error 400 Bad Request from your URL, and I'm biting my nails.

I found a site that seems to corroborate Villon. Queen widow of Phillipe V (if I remember right) used to take lovers, and when she was tired of them literally sack them, into Seine. Allegedly Buridan as a young man suffered this fate, but landed on a barge passing under the bridge, and survived to have notable career.

http://www.paris.org/Kiosque/feb00/nesle.html