P. 174, 512 a, III, 509 a. M. Gaston Paris has made it strongly probable
that Pontoise, and not Toulouse, was originally the scene of the
French-Catalan-Italian ballad. Three students had inadvertently
trespassed on the hunting-grounds of Enguerrand de Couci; the baron had
them arrested by his foresters and hanged from the battlements of his
castle; for which St Louis made him pay a heavy fine, and with the money
founded a hospital at Pontoise. Journal des Savants, Sept.-Nov., 1889,
p. 614.