In the time of Luiz 13th, the magnificent Capuchinhos house of worship in the street of Honorato counted among its magistrates two religious men with the same name — Ivo de Paris and Ivo d’Evreux. The first, an old lawyer, verbose, ardent in conversation, well versed in the ideas of his century, enjoyed a high reputation in the city, and modern biographies still confirm his fame has not yet ended; the second, a friend confined to the study, and yet more human, a spirited observer, a passionate soul in the beauty of nature, prompt to assist where his zeal was called for, not minding the curiosity that would awaken in himself from others, he was completely forgotten, so much that, notwithstanding his recognized merit, it would take 250 years over his humble tomb for a friendly voice to stir public attention toward him.
For one to talk about this obscure magistrate, two things were necessary, which one didn’t count on during his life; the transformation into a powerful desert Empire, that he transversed, and a passionate love for certain old books, how they rehabilitated themselves with certainty, for they, in themselves, recount the facts that, being unfamiliar, would cause the growing civilization of certain countries that went towards the ignorance of their own origins.
There was then in the grand Paris house of worship many condemned men unjustly forgotten.
Founded in 1575 by Catharina de Medicis, it had in a short time gained fame comprising learned magistrates in mythology, zealous men, replete with unselfish charity during epidemics, which almost unimpaired, was practiced during the 16th century.
It was in the house of worship, that the faction, favorable to the regular religious people, came looking for influential spirits to fight the rector of Belley.
It was about these vast tracts of land, barely possessed by the House of Tremouille, where existed this immense workshop well known by the medical corpus of Paris, where the courtiers, like the most humble bourgeois came to provide themselves with medicine, that only there could they find, or that were prepared with striking neglect in other parts of the grand city.
Let us speak frankly: it was not the science, at that time uncontested, of these religious people, nor were the positive results from their cautious administration, nor even the same daily benefits, which were so useful to those in need, that gained them a united trust, that they liked in Paris, since they owed this to all the brilliant conversions, accomplished recently in the dorms at Honorato.
It was in this house of worship, that one of the most senior magistrates of the last reign, the count of Bouchage, better known after as Angelo the Joyous, came to replace the greatness of the Court, where he voluntarily quit from his military duties, by a poor and obscure life that happened there.
It was in this somber asylum that one of the most illustrious branches of the Pembroke family, came to reject Calvinism, and, renouncing a more brilliant life, accepted against their will the humble functions, that since the beginning of the century were imposed on them, obliging them to pursue without rest in the mission they voluntarily took on.
It would be easy now to abound in the voicing of celebrated names, and to cause perhaps admiration making the forgotten stand out; to be brief we have however to restrain ourselves to the object in question.
Ivo d’Evreux and Ivo de Paris appeared, like we said, almost at the same time; however the fame, from one always growing, eclipsed completely the memory that runs away, that the other was left with, and even in half decent corporate writing, they were mixed up. They had, though, that it’s good to emphasize, each a different fate.
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No tempo de Luiz XIII, o magnifico Convento dos Capuchinhos da rua de Santo Honorato contava entre seos Monges dois religiosos com o mesmonome—o Padre Ivo de Paris e o Padre Ivo de Evreux. O primeiro, advogado antigo, verboso, ardente na discussão, muito versado nas ideias do seu seculo, gosava pela cidade de alta reputação, e as biographias modernas confirmão ainda sua fama passada: o segundo, amigo reconcentrado do estudo, e mais ainda da humanidade, espirito observador, alma apaixonada pelas bellezas da naturesa, prompto a acudir onde o chamava seo zelo, não se importando da curiosidade que podia despertar, foi completamente esquecido, e de tal forma, que, apezar de seo reconhecido merito, decorreram 250 annos sobre seo humilde tumulo sem que uma voz amiga tenha para elle despertado a attenção publica.
Para que se fallasse n’este obscuro Monge foram necessarias duas cousas, com que não se contava durante sua vida: a transformação em poderoso Imperio dos desertos, que elle percorreo, e o amor apaixonado por certos livros velhos, que se rehabilitam e com razão, pois elles, por si só, narram factos que, sendo desconhecidos, fariam com que a civilisação crescente de certos paizes caminhasse na ignorancia de sua origem.
Tinha então o grande Convento de Pariz muitos homens condemnados á injusto esquecimento.
Fundado em 1575 por Catharina de Medicis, havia em pouco tempo adquerido fama de conter monges doutos em theologia, zelosos, cheios de abnegnação e caritativos nas epidemias, a qual, quasi intacta, conservou durante o decimo sexto seculo.
Era n’elle, que o partido, favoravel aos religiosos regulares, vinha procurar espiritos activos para luctar com o Bispo de Belley.
Era sobre estes vastos terrenos, possuidos apenas pela Casa de _Tremouille_, que existia essa immensa officina bem conhecida pelo Corpo medico de Pariz, onde os cortesãos, assim como os mais humildes burguezes vinham provêr-se de medicamentos, que só ahi encontravam, ou que se preparavam com incuria notavel nos outros lugares de tão grande cidade.
Fallemos francamente: não era nem a sciencia, então incontestavel, d’esses Religiosos, nem os resultados positivos de sua cuidadosa administração, nem mesmo os beneficios diarios, pelos quaes eram tão uteis ás classes necessitadas, que lhes grangearam o credito unisono, que gosavam em Pariz, pois o deviam sobre tudo as brilhantes conversões, realisadas recentemente no Mosteiro de Santo Honorato.
Foi n’este Convento, que um dos maiores senhores do ultimo reinado, o conde de Bouchage, mais conhecido depois pelo Padre Angelo de Joyeuse, veio trocar as grandezas da Côrte, onde voluntariamente demittio-se dos seos cargos militares, pela vida pobre e obscura que ahi se passava.
Foi n’este sombrio asylo que um dos ramos mais illustres da familia de Pembroke veio abjurar o calvinismo, e, renunciando vida mais brilhante, sugeitou-se ás humildes funcções, que desde o principio do seculo lhes foram impostos, obrigando-se a proseguir sem descanço na missão a que voluntariamente se impozera.
Facil nos seria abundar agora na citação de nomes celebres, e de causar talvez admiração fazendo sobresahir os esquecidos: para ser breve devemos porem cingir-nos ao objecto em questão.
O Padre Ivo d’Evreux e o Padre Ivo de Pariz appareceram, como dissemos, quase ao mesmo tempo; porem a fama, sempre crescente de um, eclypsou completamente a lembrança mui fugitiva, que o outro deixou, e até em bons escriptos são elles confundidos. Tiveram, comtudo, bom é repetir, destino bem differente.
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Yves d’Évreux (1577-1632) was an explorer, historian, and entymologist. Perhaps he was a colonizer too.