10; cf. _Top. hist. du vieux Paris_, by Berty and Tisserand, t.
iv., p. 70). In 1230 they received at Paris from the
Benedictines of Saint-Germain-des-Prés a certain number of
houses _in parocchia SS. Cosmæ et Damiani infra muros domini
regis prope portam de Gibardo (Chartularium Universitatis
Parisiensis_, no. 76. Cf. _Topographie historique du vieux
Paris; Région occid. de l'univ._, p. 95; Félibien, _Histoire de
la ville de Paris_, i., p. 115). Finally, St. Louis installed
them in the celebrated Convent of the Cordeliers, the refectory
of which still exists, transformed into the Dupuytren Museum.
The Dominicans, who arrived in Paris September 12, 1217, went
straight to the centre of the city, near the bishop's palace on
the _Ile de la Cité_, and on August 6, 1218, were installed in
the Convent of St. Jacques.

[28] _Fior._, 27; _Spec._, 148b; _Conform._, 71a and 113a, 2;
Bon., 182.

[29] The traces of Francis's visit here are numerous. A Brother
Eudes painted his portrait here.

[30] Bon., 177.

[31] Vide A. SS., pp. 855 and 856. Cf. 2 Cel., 3, 136.

[32] Among others those of December 5, 1217, Potthast, 5629;
February 8, March 30, April 7, 1218, Potthast, 5695, 5739, 5747.

[33] 1 Cel., 74. _O quanti maxime in principio cum hæc agerentur
novellæ plantationi ordinis insidiabantur ut perderent._ Cf. 2