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An historical and geographical description of France extracted from the best authors, both ancient and modern. By J. De Lacrose, Eccl. Angl. Presb.
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Lacroze, Jean Cornand de, d. ca. 1705.
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1694
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Wing L136A; ESTC R223644
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Secular Clergy freed these from all Episcopal Jurisdiction and Innocent III. granted them this vain Priviledge that their Abbot might take upon him the Title of Cardinal of St. Priscus In 1563. the Protestants being Masters of this Town broke down the Images and it having since followed the League the French King Henry IV. took it by Storm in 1569. and caus'd Maillé Benehard the Governour and a Franciscan Fryer to be Executed forgiving the rest of the People In this Town there is a very ancient Castle a Colledge of the Fathers of the Oratory and some Religious Houses It is distant from Paris about thirty two Leagues to the South-West Peter Ronsard a Poet famous in the last Age was Originary of Vendomois in which I find no other considerable Places but Mântoire and Ville aux Cleres Of Anjou ANjou Ducatus Andegavensis hath Maine on the North Brittany on the West Poictou on the South and Touraine on the East This Province is about 30 Leagues in length 20 in breadth It aboundeth with great Quarries of Slate wherewith most of their Houses are covered and even oft employed by Masons instead of Stones There are reckoned about 36 or 40 Rivers whereof the principal are the Loire the Sarte the Loir the Mayenne the Dive the Vienne the Couesnon the Oudon the Authion the Tonay the Layion the Eure the Guinate and such a number of Lakes Ponds Brooks and Fountains that several believe the Name of Anjou to be derived from that of Aiguade Du Chesne rejects this Conjecture as impertinent but when I consider that most of the Names of Countries have a reference to their situation that the Gascons who in their vulgar Language have preserv'd many ancient Gaulish Words call a River Gave that the Romans named the Inhabitants of Anjou Andicavi or Andegavi and that the Celtick Speech had a great affinity with the Teutonish I am apt to look on the Name Andegavi as a word compounded of three An-degaven In the Brooks to denote Men inhabiting a Country wash'd with many Rivers However it be this abundance of Water makes the Riches of Anjou both by a vast quantity of sweet Fish and the great number of Gardens and Meadows they make therewith fruitful This Province is partly Champian and has many Woods and Forrests where abound Stags Hinds Bucks Does Hares and all sorts of great and small Game and partly mountainous and cover'd with Vineyards that produce as delicate Wine as any in France most of which together with their Brandies and those of Orleanois are transported along the Loire to Nantes and thence into Forreign Country for Brittany has none or but very little of its own This Country is divided into higher and lower following the Course of the River Loire Anger 's is in the lower and Saumur in the higher The other most considerable Towns are la Fleche Montreuil-Belley Chateau-Gontier Beaufort en valée the Dutchies of Brissac Beaupreau Brezé Vaujour le Lude the Marquisates of Jarzay Bellay Touarcé the Counties of Monsoreau Maulevrier the Barrony of Craon c. the Abbies of Fontevraut and Borguéil the Castle and Convent of Verger c. The ancient Inhabitants of Anjou call'd in French Angevins and in Latin Andes Andi Andecavi or Andegavi had their own Commanders afterwards the Romans and since them the Kings of France and those of England enjoy'd it In 861. the French King and Emperor Charles the Bald bestow'd the Countries included betwixt the Seinâ and Loire upon Robert the Strong Duke and Marquess of France on Condition that he should defend them against the Incursions of the Normans But the Posterity of Robert having obtain'd the very French Crown for his two Sons were Crown'd Kings viz. Eudes in 898. and Robert in 922. and his great Grand-son Hugh Capet began the third Race of the French Kings the Issue of Tertulle or Terculf to whom the same Charles had given some part of Anjou were accounted sole Counts of it during part of the Ninth the Tenth and the Eleventh Century They grew so potent and famous that Fulk V. became King of Jerusalem in 1131. and Henry Plantagenet Son to Godfrey III. Count of Anjou and le Mayne succeeded in the right of his Mother Mathilda to the Crown of England under the Name of Henry II. His Son Richard I. surnam'd Lions Heart enjoy'd likewise these Counties but they were Confiscated upon his Brother K. John by Philip August whose Successors gave them since several times in Portion to their Sons The French K. John erected Anjou into a Dutchy in 1360. in behalf of his second Son Lewis who became afterwards King of Naples and Sicily Count of Provence and Titular King of Jerusalem Charles the last of that Family instituted K. Lewis XI his Universal Heir and ever since this Province has been an Apannage or part of the Portion of the second Son of the French Kings as it is now enjoy'd by Philip Duke of Orleance Lewis XIV's Brother The City of Anger 's or Juliomagus Andegavorum Andegavae or Andegavi is situated on the River Mayenne after it hath receiv'd the Sarte and the Loire It 's the Capital of this Province having divers Seats of Justice Presidial Seneschalship Bailiwick Election a Mint where Money is coyn'd at the Letterâ an University and a Bishoprick suffragan to Tours It is seated in a Plain very fertil producing delicate Fruits and very good Wine the River Mayenne divides it into 2 parts whereof the greatest which is call'd the City lyes on the steep of a little Hill where the Church of St. Maurice and the Castle of Anger 's are to be seen This Church which is the Cathedral is distinguished from all others by 3 high Steeples raised up on the body of the Church the middle of which being built on an Arch and underpropt only by the two others is accounted a Marvel On solemn Days are shewn the Relicks as the Sword of St. Maurice one of the pretended Pitchers wherein our Lord chang'd Water into Wine said to be brought from Jerusalem by Renatus K. of Sicily and resembling a Jasper Here is the Tomb of this Prince whose Body was brought hither from Aix in Provence as also his Picture drawn by himself The Chapter of the Cathedral is composed of 29 Canons a Dean a great Archdeacon a Treasurer an Arch-deacon beyond the Mayenne an Archdeacon beyond the Loire a Singer two other Treasurers and a Penitenciary This City has been beautify'd and encreas'd from time to time by its Counts but especially by our King John who built that part which lyes now beyond the Mayenne some surname it the Black City because its all covered with Slates Anger 's is much resorted unto at a Festival which the Roman Catholicks call La-Fete-Dieu the Feast of God Then you may see all the Priests and Monks and 4000 Inhabitants bearing as many kindled Torches and withall as many engraven Histories of the Holy Scripture as there are Wards in the
adorned with cast Copper Trâphies of embossed Work representing thâ most memorable Events of that Reigâ The Statue is properly a Groupe or a Complâcation of three Figures namely of the Kinâ in his Royal Robes of the Victory behinâ him who puts a Crown on his Head anâ of Cerberus or the infernal Dog kick'd under the Feet of this Sham-conqueror by the three Heads of which they would signifie the triple Alliance of England Holland and Swede or perhaps the House of Austria The Victory has one of her Feet on a Globe the other in the Air and with her two display'd Wings seems ready to fly There are besides a Hercules's Club a Lyon's Skin and a Helmet so that the whole weighs above thirty thousand though 't is said that it was all made at one Cast On the four Avenues or Sides of the Market are so many Marble-Columns adorned with Bassâ-Relievo's of Brass representing this Prince's Actions Upon each of these Pillars is a Lanthorn of gilded Brass whereââ Light is perpetually kept to venerate âis new Idol which is sufficiently denoted ây this Inscription amongst others Viro imâortali to the immortal Man Paris as to its Form is rather square than âng and divided into three Parts the City ãâã ancient Town built in the Isle of the Paââce formed by the Seine The new Town ââlled La Ville which is the Northern or ââwest part of Paris and the University âhich is the highest They were shut up âith seventeen Gates leading unto ten Subârbs whereof that of St. Germain likes to âe a goodly Town but some of their Gates âave been demolished These several Parts âre joyned and communicate together by âen Bridges most of which are filled with âuildings Paris lies so convenient that Rouen supâlies it with what it has occasion of from âther Countries and the neighbouring Proâinces with all Home-Necessaries Besides âhis its Situation is so very advantagious âhat there is no place in the Kingdom so fit âor so great a City or such a Court. The Houses generally are high and spacious the Streets kept very clean Fountains wholesome and in great numbers The Air mild and healthful and Provisions cheap so that People may live there and spend much less than what is generally thought Besides these there is another great Convenienââ in that City that Men may go any time ãâã the Night about their Occasions as safe ãâã by Day because the Watch are so exaââ that no Thieves or Rogues can scape theââ being Lanthorns very close that give greââ Light and Chains in every Street to ãâã drawn up upon such Occasions Physiciaâ have the Liberty of the Royal Garden ãâã the Suburbs of St. Victor where they wââ find many rare Simples The Learned cââ visit the Royal Library at the Cordeliers of St. Victor in the Abby of that Name weââ furnished with ancient and curious Manâscripts that of Navarre but especially thââ of the President of Thou that is well looked after and in good Order Besides thesâ each Religious House as poor as it is hââ it s own particular Library I shall concludâ this Article by mentioning Val de Grace thââ sumptuous Monastery in the Suburbs ãâã St. James belonging to the Nuns of St. Beânet's Order and built by the Queen Motheâ Ann of Austria It 's one of the finest Placeâ of this great City which a famous Poet haâ commended thus Vrbs orbi similis toto celeberrima mundo Musarum sedes Regina Lutetia salve Francigenae tu Metropolis pulcherrima Gentis Hospitio regum grato regis que ministros Excipis reliquas das jura suprema per urbes Towns and Places of Note in the Parisis or the Territory of Paris ON the South Side of Paris entring into the Deanship of S. Cel is the Village âf Gentilly upon the River Bievre or des Gobelins where the Kings of the first and âecond Race kept their General States and âometimes their Parliaments but it was âestroyed by the Normans and is now onây renowned for its many fine Gardens At âhe top of this Village was the Royal Castle âf Winchester corruptly called Bicestre beâause in the time of the English it belonged âo John Bishop of Winchester It has been âft ruined and rebuilt King Lewis XIII âaused there an Hospital to be built for Lame Souldiers who having been transfer'd ânto another Place it was designed to shut up âhe Beggars of Paris On the South-West of the City in the Castelny of St. Maur are the Villages of Isi where the Goddess Isis was adored Vanââes which was heretofore inhabited by the Water-men of the River Seine and is now âenowned for its Fountains Gardens and Meadows that furnish Paris with Milk and Butter Arcueuil formerly a Pleasure-House of the Romans whence Julian the Apostate brought Water through Lead-Pipes into his Palace that was built wheââ now is the House of Clugny Farther to the West near the Seinâ is the Village of Meudon two Leagues froâ Paris with a strong Castle built upon ãâã Rock in the middle of a pleasant Foreââ There is a Grotto that affords Water in abundance and is paved with Porphiry spoâted with White Red Green and severââ other Colours The Chambers of this Castle built by Cardinal Sanguin under Charâââ IX are adorned with Marble Statues fiââ Pictures of the first Roman Emperors ãâã Aristotle Cicero Demosthenes c. and upoâ one of the Chimneys is a Marble that reflects the Rays of the Light as a Looking Glass The Town of S. Clou Head of a Casteâny on the West of Paris is situated upoâ the Seine about two Leagues from the Câpital It was formerly a Village calleâ Nogent and has gotten its present Naââ from Cloüaud or Cloud Son to Clodonir Kiââ of Orleance This Cloud for fear of his crâel Uncle Clotaire King of Paris who hââ already murthered two of his Nephews râtired to Nogent where he built a Monastâry and ended his Life There also dieâ King Henry III. being stabb'd by James Cââment a Dominican Fryar The present King Brother has there a very fine House Versailles THIS Royal House about four Leagues Westward of Paris is become of late ãâã considerable that it deserves a particular âescription The present King began to âuild or beautifie it in 1661. It consists âf the old Castle built by this Prince's Faââer of other Buildings of the same Symeây which he has added for Lodgings and âf a very stately Pile of Buildings that enâârons it on the Garden Side The House ãâã built upon a little height in the middle of ãâã Valley encompassed with Hills at the âottom of them on Paris side begin three ââe Walks formed by four delicate Sets of âim the middle Alley being twenty Faââoms and the two side ones ten each wide âhese end at the great Royal Place enviââned with very regular Pavilions which âe Princes and Lords of that Court have ââilt there and with the other Houses that âârm the new Town This Royal Place