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A new description of Paris containing a particular account of all the churches, palaces, monasteries ... with all other remarkable matters in that great and famous city / translated out of French.; Nouvelle description de la ville de Paris. English
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Brice, Germain, 1652-1727.
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great Minister hath undertaken Here is a great number of Workmen who are continually employed some in polishing the Glasses with Sand others with Emery and other in making the Bessil They use no others at present at Paris And these which they make here are as beautiful as those which formerly came from Venice with infinite greater Charges These Workmen are placed in long Galleries round a great square Court. Which Buildings have all the Conveniencies that are requisite being raised on purpose for this Manufacture The Triumphal Arch. Near the place where you see the Triumphal Arch was a magnisick Throne erected for the Queen when she made her Entry in the year 1660. And in regard this place is the highest of all this Quarter this beautiful Structure is placed here though it is not yet raised much higher than the Pedestal One may judge from the Model which is only of Plaster that it will be when finished one of the most Illustrious Monuments of all Europe It is a great Work consisting of two Fronts and three open thorow-Passages between each of which are placed two Corinthian Pillars in all eight on each side and two at the ends or thickness of the Work Over the Entablements or Cornish are placed great Troâ—hies of Arms with Slaves in Chains The top of all the Work is flat in the middle of which is placed a great Pedestal and thereupon the Kings Statue on Horseback is to be erected Posterity will learn from the several Ornaments of this Beautiful Structure the glorious Actions of this Kings Life which are represented in Medaillons placed in the spaces between the Pillars This Triumphal Arch will without doubt surpass all those which are to be seen at Rome and other parts of Italy the Remains of Antiquity and we shall see in this more regularity more design and more grandeur The Solidity of the Work will answer the beauty They make use of the hardest and greatest Stones that can be got which are joyned in such manner that you cannot perceive where unless you look very closely and this without cement or any thing like it In fine they have forgot nothing whereby to make it one of the Noblest Monuments of this Age. The Chateau or Royal House of Vincennes Tho we did not intend in this Description to speak of any of the beautiful houses about Paris yet we must not neglect to say something of Vincennes in regard of its near neighbourhood It is at the further end of that great Ally of Trees which has been continued from the Triumphal Arch to this place to serve for a passage hither and makes a pleasing prospect The Building is exactly square compassed about with a Moat very deep It has several Towers of great heighth but one higher than the reâ—t called the Donjon The first Founder of this House was Philip Augustus who also made the Park about it in which he put a great number of Deer sent him by Henry King of England from Normandy which he then possessed Philip of Valois and King John his Son continued the Work but it was not finished till the Reign of Charles V. called the Wise which put it into the condition as it now is There have been several very considerable additions made and the Court hath often resided here for a long time together The two great Wings of Modern Building on the Park side are of Dorick Pilasters and were designed by Monsieur du Vau. They are Magnificent both without and within and shew very great but that which is most remarkable is the great Gate that leads to the Park of the same Order together with the Statues that stand on each side which are very beautiful The Chappel was founded by Charles V. and the Body of Monsieur the Cardinal Mazarin who died here is reposited in this Chappel till that of the Colledge of the four Nations be finished in which will be raised a Monument for him as he has ordered in his Will You ought to take particular notice of the curious Windows in this Chappel they being highly esteemed in regard neither Italy nor any other parts elsewhere can equal them Many Kings have made their abode here St. Lewis who used oftentimes to devest himself of the State and press of his Attendants at Court that he might have the greater freedom to exercise his Piety would here pass his days of retreat It is said that not long ago there was remaining in the Park a great old Oak under which this good Prince was used to hear their Complaints who resorted to him for Justice and that he himself would use to send abroad his Heralds about the Country to call in all such who had any need of his Authority against the oppression of great men And thus much hath been already well observed by a learned Preacher in an Eloquent Panegyrick which he made on the Feast day of this Saint in the Church of the Grands Jestures dedicated to him At the entrance into the Park is the Menagerie or place where they keep several sorts of Wild Beasts which oftentimes they cause to fight together in a Court in which are Galleries that serve the Spectators to stand in and see without danger Behind the Menagerie over against one of the Park Gates are the Nuns of S. Maud which Nuns were formerly at la Saussaïe beyond the Ville-Juif This House did once belong to Monsieur Fouquet This is all you can see on this side as you return into the Faux-bourg you may take a walk in the Garden of the Piqâ—epuces which is among the first Houses you come at Here are some Grottoes of Shell-work â—ot ill wrought In their Refectory you will see some Pictures of Monsieur le Brun. This Convent is one of the most pleasing and neatest of Paris tho it be but of this last Age. On the same side as you go on towards the Town you pass before Rambouïllet whose Gardens are extreme pleasant composed of several Walks of Câ—momilâ— and a great Parterre in the midst of which is a Fountain Near Reüillâ— stands the house of Monsieur de Chantelou Mâ—istre d'Hôtel to the King who has the best Pieces of Poussin that are to be seen among others the seven Sacraments of which there are so many Copies and which the Sieun Pesne hath etcâ—t All knowing men agree without contradiction that these Pieces are the best Paintings and the best designed things of the whole World if we except the Works of some Italian Masters On the other side of the Faux-bourg you ought to view the house of the Sieur Titen the Kings Secretary in the Rüe de Montreüil It is one of the finest you can see whose Master being rich and of a delicate Gust one cannot but imagine that nothing can be there wanting and in truth it is very pleasant Both on the Court-side and that next the Garden the Fronts are very Beautiful In the Rüe de Charonne you will see also an
did heretofore bear the title of S. Clement But the Body of S. Marcel Bishop of Paris being found here it took his name which it hath kept ever since The famous Peter Lombard surnamed the Master of the Sentences is here interred And this is his Epitaph Hic jacet Magister Petrus Lombardus Parisiensis Episcopus qui composuit Librum Sententiarum Glossas Psalmorum Epistolarum cujus obitus lies est 13. Cal. Augusti Anno 1164. Here lies Master Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris who composed the Book of Sentences Glosses upon the Psalms and Epistles the day of his death is the 13 th of the Calends of August In the year 1164. There are also in this Fauxbourg the Cordelier Nuns Whose Convent was first built at Troyes by Thibaut VII Earl of Champagne and of Brie but they were removed to Paris soon after because of the inconveniency of the place where they were first founded Margaret de Provence Wife to St. Lewis caused the Church to be begun as we now see it and Blanch her Daughter Widow of the King of Castile became a Nun there and gave a considerable Augmentation to the Estate of this House She built the Cloister where are yet remaining her Arms in several places These Nuns observe the Rule of St. Francis somewhat nearer than the Cordelier Friers of the great Convent in Paris there is nothing of singular note in their Church no more than in that of St. Medard the Parish-Church of this Quarter where there hapned in the last Age a furious Tumult raised by the Calvinists who came flocking with Arms in hand to Massacre the Catholicks being then at Vespers the cause pretended was that the noise of the Bells of this Church did disturb them in hearing their Sermon which at that time was in a house close by But they were punished for their Rashness for the Citizens taking Arms killed all those that fell in their power This was the first occasion of that hatred which the Parisians bear to those of the pretended Reformed Religion and the Historians observe that from that time the Calvinists threw off their Mask and went arm'd in the Streets of Paris but the Catholicks not being able to endure this it was the occasion of many Disorders which hapned afterwards Monsieur Patru from whom we have a Volume of Pleadings extremely fine is interred in this Church Monsieur d'Ablencour had so great an esteem for his Judgment that on his death-bed he recommended his Works to his Correction In this Quarter near the little Church of S. Hippolytus is an ancient house built in the time of St. Lewis which is not far from the River des Gobelins where that good King would sometimes use to pass his hours of Solitude in Prayer It is said that under Charles VI. there happened here a very unhappy accident which was partly the cause of the distraction with which that Prince was afflicted the greatest part of his Reign The Story is thus reported The Parisians who always made it their glory passionately to love their King being desirous to entertain Charles VI. with a Ball in this house upon his return from a great Victory which he had gained over the Revolted Flemings The King was at this Entertainment with many Lords disguised like Salvages and apparelled in Linnen pitcht over and covered with Flax like hair and so close fitted to the Body that it seemed to be the natural skin as he was dancing with the young Lords one of the Company approaching too near a Flambeau held by a Prince who was desirous to discover the King from the rest it hapned that the Flame caught the Flax and burnt furiously and they being all fastened to one another the King could find no security but by casting himself all covered with Flames as he was into the Arms of the Dutchess of Berry who very happily being then present extinguished the Flame by covering him all over with her great Gown The other Masquers were all either stifled or roasted alive and died within two days after the King and Mantoüillet only escaping which last cast himself headlong into a Tub of Water which he hapned to light of not far from the place After this sad accident Charles began to fall extreme Morose and Melancholy and the Idea of so great a peril prepared his brain for that madness which seized upon him near the Town of Mans in such manner as is recorded by Monsieur de Mezeray And this is all that is to be seen in this Fauxbourg The Gates by which you go into the Town are two that of St. Victor near the Abby of that name of which Abby we have already spoken This Gate was lately repaired but not with so great expence as the others There is only represented in Basse taille over the Arch a great Ship of War which are the Town Arms with this Inscription beneath it QUAE NON MARIA What Seas does she not Sail through The other Gate is that of St. Marcel behind St. Geneviéue du Mont. Near this on the Fosse between the two Gates lives Monsieur de Troyes whose Pictures you ought not to sail of seeing He was sent by the King into Bavaria to take the Picture of Madame the Dauphiness Few Painters have been more successful than he after the Life This hath attained him the Practice of most Persons of Quality who cause themselves to be drawn by his hand We shall say nothing of the Convent of English Nuns nor of the House of the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine which are also upon the same Fosse there being nothing curious about them to remark unless it be one of the best Prospects that we can see by reason of the high situation of the Place where these two houses stand The end of the first Part. A New DESCRIPTION OF THE Most Remarkable Things IN PARIS PART II. The Vniversity Quarter THIS Quarter is one of the antientest and best Peopled of all Paris It takes up a very great space of Ground almost the fourth part of the Town Philip Augustus at such time as he went to Palestine with Richard King of England against the Sarrazins gave order that during his Journey which lasted a whole Year this Quarter should be inclosed with Walls some Remains of which one may perceive at this Day The University of Paris is so antient that as some hold Charlemagne was its Founder This opinion is built upon certain old Titles which are preserved with great care Notwithstanding there are many Learned Men who are of a contrary opinion among others Monsieur Joli Grand Chanter of Nostre-Dame who has clearly proved his Sentiments in his Little Tract of the Episcopal Schools But if it be doubtful whether it were founded by that Great Emperor it is however most certain that it began to appear in a very little time after his Reign which was in France a Glorious one for Learning and Learned Men to whom this great Prince