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Updated: June 7, 2025
A steep peninsular hill looks down on a narrow and wooded valley with a beck that is the right word in the land which contains Caudebec and Bec Herlouin running round its base. The church a strange modern building with some ancient portions used up again stands on the extreme point of the promontory.
As a philosopher Porphyry was chiefly important as the immediate successor of Plotinus in the neoplatonic school at Rome, but his "Isagoge" had extraordinary weight among the medieval logicians. Anselm of Laon was born somewhere about 1040, and is said to have studied under the famous St. Anselm, later archbishop of Canterbury, at the monastery of Bec.
Semi-official figures state that the operations which lasted from April 16th to April 25th cost France 28,000 killed on the field of battle, 5,000 who died of wounds in hospital, 4,000 prisoners, and 80,000 wounded. General Nivelle's offensive was called off, and French officers who had said, "We shall break through... It is certain," now said: "We came up against a bec de gaz.
In 1820 he took orders, and after serving various cures bec., in 1834, Chaplain of Chelsea Hospital, and in 1844 Chaplain-General of the Forces, which office he held until 1875.
The most famous place in Europe, at that time, where learning was cultivated, was the newly-founded abbey of Bec in Normandy, under the superintendence of the Archbishop of Rouen, of which Lanfranc of Pavia was the prior. It was the first abbey in Normandy to open the door of learning to the young and inquiring minds of Western Europe.
'I thought ye had been mocking me, said he; 'oh, Bon Bec, Bon Bec, if I had found the world like thee at starting I had put my wit to better use, and I had not lain here. Then he whimpered out, 'I gave not quite a rix dollar for the jingler; and threw me back that he had gone to cheat me of; honest for once, and over late; and so, with many sighs, bade me Godspeed.
Drinking off the lime juice, Frank at once followed Lechmere on deck, and after a word or two with Purvis hurried forward. "She is a long way ahead," he said, with a tone of disappointment. "The mate reckoned it between seven and eight miles, Major." "How far is she from the Bec?" "I don't know, sir. I did not ask Purvis." Frank went aft and repeated the question.
It was because of Répentigny, not of yourself. I arranged it, and you were then unknown to me. Through him Bec and Caron, two friends of the people, had died six years ago, in the days of the tyrant. It was I, as avenger, not the worm Jude as lover, who watched over your household in the Rue Honoré, reserving Répentigny for prolonged punishment.
"And thou at Canterbury, good brother," said the abbot. And, indeed, ere many years this came to pass. How, being given letters to Duke William by the Abbots of St. Michael and of Bec, I set out for Coutances, and of what befell me on my way. "Sit down and take thy pen, good Nigel," said the abbot next morning; "this Lanfranc shall dictate thee thine epistle."
It is difficult to determine whether Contarini here means Maksud-beg or Masih-beg, as Uzun-Hassan had two sons of these names; Maksad was the elder, and may have been the person named in the text Masu. Bec or Beg signifies Lord or Prince.
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