Foundations in Paris
As patron, he contracted at Rome (15 March 1302), to buy from the Grands-Augustins the Maison du Chardonnet and adjoining land to found a college. Initially, la Maison du Cardinal, after his death it was called Collège du cardinal Lemoine. Initially it was to take 60 theology students and 40 in the arts. It received approval from Boniface VIII on 12 May 1302.
He subsequently had built, in the nave of Notre-Dame de Paris, the chapel called the "altar of the lazy".
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