Hostility still pursued him

but he left Melun for Corbeil, nearer the capital, where he was still more admired and persecuted. Soon after he ceased teaching to reeruit his strength; and after two years returned to Paris, and found that his former teacher had removed to a monastery outside the city. He again joined i ue with him and gained so complete a triumph that he opened in Paris a school of rhetoric, the fame of which soon deprived all the others of their pupils. Shortly afterward he was appointed to his rival’s chair in the cathedral school of Notre Dame, where he educated many distinguished scholars, among whom were the future Pope Celestin II., Peter of Lombardy, Bishop of Paris, Berenger, Bishop of Poictiers, and St. Bernard. At this time there resided close to Notre Dame a young lady, by name Heloise, niece of the canon Fulbert, then of the age of 17, and remarkable for her beauty, genius, and varied accomplishments. Abelard became _ inspired with such violent love for Heloise as to forget his duty, his lectures, and his fame.