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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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to those of the famous Moliere for Comick All Strangers agree however that the French Scene is the handsomest and most magnificent of Europe as well for the decoration of the Theater as for the Beauty of the Pieces there represented the Comedians moreover spare no Costs to satisfie the Spectators in the richness of their habits There are some among them who compose Plays themselves which makes them more expert and enables them more thorowly to understand the Character which they represent From the Ruë Mazarin you may turn into the Ruë de Guenegaud in which dwells Monsieur the Abbot de la Roque Author of the Journal des Sçavans which he publishes every Fifteen days The Curious receive this piece with extream satisfaction since he shews so great care to enrich it with all the fine things he can collect M. de Salo Counsellor in the Parliament was the first who began this Journal in the Year 1665. and gave the Idea to Strangers who found the invention so profitable and so pleasant that they have imitated the same thing in divers parts of Europe M. the Abbot Gallois continued the Journal for some years after from 1666. to 1674. at which time M. the Abbot de la Roque undertook the Work in which he hath always labour'd since then with such success as has acquired him a very great Reputation in the World He holds at his House every Thursday Conferences at which many Learned Persons meet and propose to him the Discoveries they have made in the Arts and Sciences From this Street you go upon the Key of the Augustines which begins at the Pont Saint Michael and runs all along the River as far as the Pont-Neuf The Convent of the Grand Augustines THE House of these Fathers is of no greater Antiquity than that of the other Mendicants of which I have already spoken Historians say that they came to Paris about the Year 1270. and that they were then call'd the Hermites of St. Augustine Their first Habitation was near the Gate of Mont-martre in the Street call'd Rüe des Vieux Augustines which still keeps that name and while they dwelt in that Quarter they made use of the Church of St. Mary Aegyptian which is still remaining They changed their abode some years after and came into the Rüe des Bernardins where there is at present St Nicholas du Chardonnet but finding that place no more Commodious than the former they shifted once again and came at last to this place intending to associate with the Penitents called Sachets who were apparel'd in a kind of Sackcloth and were placed by St. Lewis on the Bank of the Seine in the same place where the Convent stands at this day This habitation the Sachets left entirely to them and became themselves dispersed into divers places The Church belonging to these Father was not built till the time of Charles the Fifth called the Wise as one may observe from the Inscription placed at the Foot of his Statue placed at the entrance of the great Door on the Right Hand Primus Francorum Rex Delphinus fuit isle Exemplar morum Carolus dictus bone Chrisle Merces justorum dilexit fortiter isle Hic patet exemplum tibinam compleviâ— honore Hoc praesens Templum Deo diteâ—ur honore This King of France first Dauphin was in Fame Example of good manners Charles by name He loved full strongly the reward o' th' just The reason 's pâ—ain and grant it me you must For he this Church t' Almighty God did frame The Church was dedicated by William Chartier Bishop of Paris in the year 1453. assisted by a great number of Prelates who performed this Ceremony with much Solemnity The Great Altar is a modern Work it is but two years since it was finisht M. le Brun made the Design which is not much different from that of St. Severin you may observe that the Joyners Work of the Quire is of the best sort in Paris as is also the Tribune between the Quire and the Nave adorn'd with black Marble Pillars of the Corinthian Order On each side of the Door under this Tribune are two Chapels one dedicated to the Holy Virgin and the other to St. Nicholas of Tolentin The Pulpit is also adorn'd with certain Carvings gilt and the Bas-reliefs which are round about are carefully preserved they being wrought by Germain Pilon yet these Fathers have been not long since perswaded to gild them In this Church are several Tombs of illustrious Persons among which Philip de Comines is the most famous he lived under Lewis the Eleventh and was his principal Secretary The Memoires which he hath left us are so excellent and so profitable that they have been translated into Latin with Commentaries and Notes upon them And M. Godefroy Historiographer of France hath printed a French Edition of them at the Louvre according to the Original in the Language of the time which he hath illustrated with many curious Remarks That learned Man is buried with his Wife in a little low Chapel behind the Altar belonging to the Knights of the Holy Ghost and one cannot see his Tomb unless the Sacristan open the Door of the place in which it is it not appearing outwards You must not forget to observe the great Picture in this Chapel representing the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Holy Virgin and the Apostles it is the Work of a Famous Painter There is another Picture on the side of the same bigness representing Lewis the Thirteenth in his Ceremonial Robes giving the Collar of the Holy Ghost to a Lord assisted with the principal Officers of the Order in their proper Habits also In this Chapel are perform'd the Ceremonies of the great promotions and Henry the Third made choice of this place when he first Instituted the Order of the Holy Ghost on the last day of December 1579. as did appear by an Inscription which was not long since taken away but this is a Copy Fortissimis prudentissÃmis utriusque militiae Equitib Priscae nobilitatis bello pace optimè de Rep. meritis HENRICUS III. Galliae Poloniae Rex augustus divini Spiritus apud Christianos Symbolum pro equestri Stemmate esse voluit jussit decrevit plaudente venerante populo vota pro salute Principis nuncupante ob singularem ipsius pietatem LUTETIAE PARISIORUM KAL JANUAR M. D. LXXIX To the most Valiant and most Wise Knights both of the Sword and the Gown of Noble Birth who have deserved well of the Common-Wealth both in War and Peace Henry the Third the august King of France and Poland has Willed Commanded and Decreed That the Symbol of the Holy Ghost among Christians should be the mark of his new Order of Knighthood the people applauding reverencing and praying for the Health of their most pious Prince Paris the First of January M. D. LXXIX You ought not to neglect to read the Epitaph of the Learned M. de Sainte-Beuve a Parisian
in which with the kindness of a Father and the Majesty of a great King he endeavoured to pacifie the disorders that rise among his Subjects or received the Embassadors sent from the Neighbouring Princes Lewis the XII repair'd it as it is at present The Plafon composed of Culs de Lampe Work in the Ceiling swelling down with knobs was heret fore esteemed as an excellent piece of Work but time has decayed a great part of that which made it esteem'd This is the Room where all the Parliament assemble when the King comes hither to sit on his Tribunal of Justice or at such times when there is any great Affair for them to deliberate upon In this place also the Dukes and Peers of France come and demand to have their Patents Register'd which they obtain'd of the King for the Erection of their Dignities The other Chambers are much handsomer than this and in some of them the Plafons or Ceilings are gilt and painted very richly The 2 d. and 3 d. Chambers of Inquests and the Chambers of Requests are the best adorn'd The Court of Aids THis is a separate Jurisdiction from the Parliament which fits in three distinct Chambers that are beautified with costly Plafons The face of the building on that side next the Perron du May is of Stone enricht with Sculpture of a good design The Chancery whose coming in is in the Gallery of Prisoners has been repaired of late years The next day after St. Martin being the day on which the Parliament opens there is here a Ceremony which strangers must not neglect to see All the Members of that great Court are present apparelled in Scarlet Robes on that day and assist at a solemn Mass in the great Hall The principal Presidents call'd Presidens à mortier are distinguished from the rest by their â—acings of Minever or a kind of spotted Fur. When these last go up to Offer they make a kind of Reverence which was used in old time and is never practised now adays but upon this occasion After the Mass is ended they go to hear the Speeches which are usually made by the first President by the Procureur General and by the Advocates General who are no less remarkable by their Eloquence than by their Dignities The Sainte Chapel OF all the Monuments of Piety which St. Lewis raised there is none more beautiful or more magnificent than this Who making his usual aboad in this Palace caused this Chapel to be erected for the conveniency of his own Devotion In the same place where it now stands there was formerly a small Church Founded by King Hugh Capet under the title of The Adoration of three Kings in which Church Robert his Son did institute an Order of Knights called Knights of the Star This Order was of great Reputation in the beginning of its Institution and the greatest Lords accepted of the Collar But in process of time it became so vilified that it came to be confer'd on the Town Watch who go about in the Night time to prevent disorders that might happen in the Streets from Thieves and Robbers From whence it comes that at this day the Captain who commands that Watch is called the Chevalier du Guet the Knight of the Watch This little Chapel remain'd in such Estate till the time of St. Lewis who built the Structure which we now see a building of surprising Delicacy The Vaults are very high and the Windows of it pass for the handsomest that can be seen by reason of their bigness and almost infinite Variety of Colours representing some particular History of the Old and New Testaments the Glass of which is of such thickness that it hath resisted the injuries of time down to this day This beautiful Work was but five years in doingand was finisht in the year 1247. In a little time after which they brought hither the Reliques which are kept here These were redeem'd by that holy King out of the hands of the Venetians to whom Baldwin Emperor of Constantinople had engaged them for a very considerable Summ of Money which they lent him to carry on his War against the Bulgarians This Redemption of these precious Pawns by St. Lewis was not done without the Emperors knowledge and consent to take them upon paying to the Venetians the Moneys for which they were engaged They were as follows A great piece of Wood part of the true Cross our Lord's Crown of Thorns and certain drops of his precious Blood some of the Cloths which belonged to his Infancy another piece of the true Cross some Blood which bled Miraculously from an Image of our Lord struck by an Infidel one link of Iron part of the Chain wherewith he was bound the Napkin or Towel with which he washed his Apostles Feet a piece of the Stone of his Sepulcher some of the Holy Virgins Milk the Iron head of the Lance that pierced our Lord's side the Purple Robe with which they Clothed him the Spunge which they used in giving him Vinegar and Gall to Drink a piece of the Shroud in which he was wrapped Together with these things there is kept in the same Treasury a Cross which our Ancestors used to carry with the Oriflame which is at St. Denis when they marched out to any Wars of Consequence which Cross was call'd on that account The Cross of Triumph and many other things beside as Moses's Rod the upper part of St. Baptist's Head all which things are enclosed in the great Shrine of Copper gilt which you see raised upon four Pillars supporting a little Vault behind the great Altar But with the sight of these things one must not expect to satisfie his curiosity for these precious Reliques hardly ever are exposed but when some Queen desires to see them which happens very rarely Upon the great Altar in a kind of Tabernacle or Box of Wood gilt and powder'd with Flowers-de-Lis is the model of the Holy Chapel in little of Silver gilt and of most excellent Workmanship enricht with Stones of considerable value It is shew'd only on Festival Days There are also in the Sacristy other things to be seen that are very rare especially a great number of Reliquaries of Gold and Silver a great Cross all of Gold in which is enclosed a piece of the Wood of the true Cross which is exposed every Friday in Lent You may here also see the Chanters Staff on the top of which is placed a great Agate representing St. Lewis to the Wast holding in one hand a little Cross and in the other our Lord's Crown of Thorns Here are also several Books whose Covers are enricht with great Pearls and precious Stones But that which is extraordinary rare is a great antique Oriental Agate very fine of Figure almost Oval a little bigger than an ordinary Trencher-Plate it is cut in Bas-relief and represents the Apotheosis of Augustus the Workmanship is really most admirable by reason that the design is so contrived that the