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The article presents information about Christian philosopher Peter Abélard. Eight hundred years ago Peter Abélard died at the Priory of St. Marcel, near Châlons-sur-Saône. When journeying to Rome in Italy to make his plea for restoration, he was stricken at the Abbey of Cluny. Given shelter by Peter the Venerable, he found a hospice in which to end his days. Until 1836, when publisher Victor Cousin published a volume of the works of Abélard, the latter was known to the generality of men only as the lover of Héloïse, and, in the more than one hundred years since Cousin introduced him anew to the thought of Europe, there have been but few who know that the romance of learning in the life of Abélard is a story quite as wonderful as the one which has linked his name to that of H&eacuteloïse. Abélard was born near Nantes, France, in 1079. He came from a stock of Breton nobles. Though not yet twenty, he became a student under William of Champeaux at the cathedral school of Notre Dame, Paris in France.