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In part of Villon's poem with refrain "Ou sont les neiges d'antan?" he says:
Likewise where is the queen
Who commanded that Buridan
Be thrown in a sack into the Seine?
But where are the snows of yesteryear?
I have been unable to find out what actually happened to Buridan. I should much appreciate some searcher more skilful than I am telling me historical fate of Buridan.
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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
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pour voux, bill:
The queen who reputedly
took lovers for three
days, and then had them
hurled into the Seine,
was Jeanne of Navarre
according to one
tradition, or Margaret of
Burgundy (wife of Louis
X) according to another.
The apocryphal story of
the philosopher Buridan
(c.1295-c.1385) and how
he arranged for a barge
of hay to be stationed by
fellow-students under the
window or balcoiny from
which he was to be flung,
was much appreciated
and elaborated from the
14th to 19th centuries.
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Thanks tsuwm.Is there no Viagra in Gilead?
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Dear Faldage: I wonder if the three swains who paid such a high price for displaying their trophies could have used the line "Honi soit qui mal y pense".
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