[978-2-35291-037-4]

1444-1445 - Two young people from Bâle, Pierre Mor and his friend Gaspard Maner, are students at Paris university, the first one as a law-student, the second a student in theology. As « school-boys » they had adventurous lives which will be François Villon’s less than ten years later. France monarchy, at the time, is radically changing and king Charles VII is confronted with enormous challenges : renewing Paris deeply wounded by seven years of English invasion ; modernizing both civil and military administration, reducing the University privileges, suspected of having taken sides with the enemy. The intellectual centre of the Seine left bank faces then its king and fights are really hard ones.

Pierre finds himself implied in those fights which become his own ; his friend Agnès belongs to the Regnault de Chartres’ family, the kingdom Chancellor. His friend Etienne is being arrested during a fight between students and middle-class people and is then put without any judgment, into a Châtelet dungeon, where he is left despise the university very old privileges.

Etienne’s fate is directly linked to fights for power, to intrigues taking place in the king’s Court and to the risks connected with «  the parisian upheaval ».

The novel is the first part of Pierre Mor’s fictitious life and he will become one of the big dominican figures of his time as well as the reference to Ulrich Bichwiller’s priest who is the center of our preceeding trilogy called «  The Inquisitor’s dilemnas ».