but laid down that the verse "Deposuit" not be repeated more than five times. There was a similar case of a legitimized Feast of Fools at Sens about 1220, where the whole text of the office has survived. There are many proses, and interpolations (farsurae) added to the ordinary liturgy, but nothing much unseemly. This prose, or conductus, was not a part of the office, but only a preliminary to Vespers. In 1245 Cardinal Odo, the papal legate in France, wrote to the Chapter of Sens Cathedral demanding that the feast be celebrated with no un-clerical dress and no wreaths of flowers. End of the Feast The Feast of Fools was officially forbidden by the Council of Basel in 1431 and again in a document issued by the theological faculty of the University of Paris in 1444; numerous decrees of lower level provincial councils followed. The Feast of Fools was condemned by early Protestants, and among Catholics it seems that the abuse had largely disappeared by the time of the Council of Trent, though instances of festivals of this kind survived in France as late as 1721, in Amiens, France. Connections to other holidays Prior to the creation of the Gregorian Calendar in 1582, most European nations celebrated New Year's Day on March 25. Since the celebrations of the Feast of Fools generally took place over a week or so, this would cause them to end on April first. Those who refused to, or forgot to, change to the new calendar system would be ridiculed as April Fools. Due to them all taking place in the post-Christmas season, this festival, the Feast of the Ass, and the Feast of the Circumcision all grew more entangled over the centuries. As a result of fusing with the Feast of the Ass, when the church forbade the festivities from taking place within churches instead of dressing up as high-ranking members of the Church, they instead wore hats to resemble donkey ears. In popular culture Victor Hugo recreated an account of a Feast of Fools in his 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, in which it is celebrated on January 6, 1482 and Quasimodo serves as the Pope of Fools. This is shown in Disney's 1996 animated film version of the novel through the song "Topsy Turvy". Historiography Possibly as a result of it dying out in the 1700 and possibly as a result