When he was repairing with a numerous following to Rome, to ask for confirmation of his election, he met at Langres Pope Pascal II., come to France to keep the festival of Christmas at the abbey of Cluny.

The pope had no doubt heard something about the indifferent reputation of the new bishop, for, the very day after his arrival at Langres, he held a conference with the ecclesiastics who had accompanied Gaudri, and plied them with questions concerning him.

"He asked us first," says Guibert of Nogent, who was in the train, "why we had chosen a man who was unknown to us.

As none of the priests, some of whom did not know even the first rudiments of the Latin language, made any answer to this question, he turned to the abbots.

I was seated between my two colleagues.