210 ALCUIN OF YORK.

at the time was Anialrie, who afterwards became
Archbishop of Tours; dying in 855. He gave to
the abbey from his own private property certain
funds for the payment of the teachers, and in
August, 841, it was decreed that the schooling
should be free. Amalric had many students under
his tuition who rose to important positions, of
whom Paul the Archbishop of Rouen,, and Joseph
the Chancellor of Aquitaine, are speciallymeiitioned.
He was a good example of the ef school master
bishops" with whom the Church of England was
well stocked a generation ago.

The church of St. Martin,, so magnificent in
the times of the historian Archbishop Gregory of
Tours (573-94), became more and more magnifi-
cent after several destructions by fire. It had
reached its greatest splendour when it was pillaged
by the Huguenots. Tours claims to have originated
the name of those destructive people, who in the
beginning used to steal out for secret meetings at
night beyond the walls of the city, flitting about.
like the local bogey le roi Hugon."1 And Tours pos-
sesses to this day in the name of one of its streets
a reminiscence of the early hunting down of the
Huguenots as a highly enjoyable form of the cfiasse
ausB renarcls. When their time came, they wreaked
a savage revenge, and practically destroyed the
noble Abbey Church. A reproduction of its
appearance in the perfection of symmetry has been
prepared from plans and drawings, and is shown in
Plate 1. The only remains left by the Revolution

1 This Is of course not the usually assigned derivation ;
but it sounds the more reasonable of the two.