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X was a successful French scribe and manuscript-seller. According to texts ascribed to X almost two hundred years after his death, he had learned ________ secrets from a Jewish converso on the road to Santiago de Compostela. He has since appeared as a legend in various fictional works. The historical X lived in Paris in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, ran two shops as a scribe and married Y in 1368. She brought the wealth of two previous husbands to the marriage. The French Catholic couple owned several properties, and contributed financially to churches, sometimes by commissioning sculptures. Later in life they were noted for their wealth and philanthropy. X had achieved legendary status by the mid 17th Century, with references in Isaac Newton’s journals as well as in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. He is also alleged to be a Grandmaster of the Priory of Sion.