Moreover, although people were but little surprised by it, the examples of this sort of cloistration in the hearts of cities were in truth frequent, as we have just said. There were in Paris a considerable number of these cells, for praying to God and doing penance; they were nearly all occupied. It is true that the clergy did not like to have them empty, since that implied lukewarmness in believers, and that lepers were put into them when there were no penitents on hand. Besides the cell on the Gr�ve, there was one at Montfau�on, one at the Charnier des Innocents, another I hardly know where, — at the Clichon House, I think; others still at many spots where traces of them are found in traditions, in default of memorials.

The University had also its own. On Mount Sainte-Genevi�ve a sort of Job of the Middle Ages,