Collège du Cardinal Lemoine
The Collège du Cardinal Lemoine is one of the colleges of the medieval University of Paris . His buildings were in the 5th arrondissement , where the lower part of the Rue du Cardinal Lemoine runs today.
history
The Cardinal Jean Lemoine was as Papal Legate sent to Paris to the conflicts between France and Rome to the publication of the Bull Unam Sanctam to put an end in 1302.
Here he donated a chapel called Autel des paresseux (Altar of the Lazy) in the Notre Dame Cathedral , in the nave and near the choir , bought their location in the city from the Augustinians in 1303 and founded the Maison du Cardinal there for a hundred scholarship holders , the college later named after him. Cardinal Lemoine died in 1313 and was buried in the chapel of the Collège, as did his brother André Lemoine, the Bishop of Noyon , who died in 1315 and, like the Cardinal, was a great patron of the Collège, enabling him to keep track of the number of fellows to increase. Its double epitaph was still there at the end of the 18th century .
One of the fellows established an annual ceremony in memory of the founder called La solennité du cardinal (the celebration of the cardinal):
- On January 13th each year a member of the college played the role of cardinal. In the habit of his dignity, he represented him in church and at the table and seriously accepted the compliments that were addressed to him. Later, the comedians of the Hôtel de Bourgogne assisted in the solemn mass that was sung for the celebration. This was a tribute to the recognition paid by that of the prelate's family, who owned a box in the room that was long known as the Cardinal's Box.
The buildings were renovated in 1757. In 1790 the college was dissolved and made state property. A royal order of July 7, 1824 prescribed that three streets should be built on this site - the rue du Cardinal Lemoine was inaugurated in 1825.
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literature
- Charles Jourdain: Le Collège du Cardinal Lemoine . Paris 1876 ( online ).