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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84170	The state of France, as it stood in the IXth yeer of this present monarch, Lewis XIIII. Written to a friend by J.E.	Evelyn, John, 1620-1706.	1652 (1652)	Wing E3514; Thomason E1328_2; ESTC R209097	48,352	165

and more noble Regions so in anatomising the Kingdom of France which consists of a Body Politick I will commence with the Head that is the King The Kings of France absolute since Lewis the 11. his saying whom here I may call as Absolute since Lewis the Eleventh hath so long since to use his own expression put them hors de page that is freed them from that grand authority which till his time the Parliament indeed exercised over them so that now the same reason which moved the late kings to depose or translate Saint Denys their ancient Patron S Denys the patron of F. deposed to gratifie the B. Virgin and to put his Kingdome formally under the protection of the blessed Virgin is esteemed good reason For with these words of course the Secretary it seems concluded the Arrest whereby it was conferred which gave many occasion to reproach it and sufficient Logick for all his present Commands whatsoever Car tel est nostre bon plaisir for such is our good will and pleasure Sic volo sic jubeo Stat pro Ratione Voluntas For so we will so we command Our will do's for our Reason stand The Monarchy of France from a Democratick state was founded Anno The Monarchy of Fr. when founded 420. and hath continued it self under three severall Races viz. of Meroüese cont nued under three Races Charle mayn son of Pepin and lastly Hue-capet from whom this Royal house of Bourbon derives its succession branched from Robert Earle of Clermont fourth son of Saint Lewis so that the King at present Reigning is the sixty fifth Monarch of France without that any of the Feminine Sex hath ordinarily intervened no woman intervening as they affirm at least From the Salick law being a meer pretence to invalidate the title of England from a very inveterate Law which they intitle the Salique being indeed but a meer Romance of their own feigning a piece of legier de main by which they have so long pretended with the great shadow of Justice to elude and invalidate the title of our former and ancient Kings of England as to succession in the right of their Mothers and Wives Touching that other Legend of their Sainte Ampoule as well as their Sainte Ampoule which in the time of Cloüis first Christian King of France was as they give out brought by an Angel from Heaven reserved at Rhemes for the Royal Chrisme we will give it leave to passe as a vulgar yet not impolitick errour or impertinent tradition The Daughters of Fr. sometimes married to private persons yet reserve their Titles and Surnanes however by the device aforesaid the Daughters succeed not to the Crowne some of them having oftentimes martied themselves unto private men but still reserved their Titles together with the Surname of France which it seems is an honour permitted them during life to shew from what stock they originally derived And the Queens admitted to the Regency during the minority of the Kings Notwithstanding this the Queens of France are usually admitted to the Regency during the Minority of the King which is at the age of fourteen years in choative until which term they with their counsell administer the publick Affairs of State without equall or Controule Concerning the Title or adjunct of the Kings of France The title of the F. Kings which is most Christian and eldest son of the Church they make no smal boasts for not having been a complement as they name it sent them from Rome as were those of other Kings but descended time out of Mind from their own vertue merits and Piety The Eldest son of France is during the life of his Father of his eldest son called the Dauphin from a stipulation as it seems made with Vmbert who bequeathed that Province conditionally to Philip de Valois To speak something particularly of this little-great Monarch Lewis the fourteenth born Sept. Birth and Character of the present King 5. 1638 after the Queen his Mother had been above twenty yeers without Issue as his production was almost miraculous not to repeate here any bold disquisitions with those who give themselves a liberty in these days to speak evil of dignities so is his person a Character doubtless of no lesse Majesty and fair hopes and certainly if his Education be fitted to the prognosticks of his Nature he cannot but emerge a Prince of singular Qualities and egregious perfections This I am willing to adde from that Mechanick and Artificial breeding Artifice of the French Queen and publick ministers in the are kings Education which men conceive some of his progenitors and neerest relation received that so not being altogether so dextrous and knowing in King-craft as their high calling required they might with less suspicion and more ease suffer themselves to be governed by the counsels and inclinations of such whose mystery and ambition it hath ever been to continue by this means their Greatnesse and reinforce their Authority This present King hath one onely Brother Duke of Anjou his Character who is called the Duke of Anjou but more frequently distinguished by the name of Monsieur a child of an extraordinary prompt and ready spirit The other principall branches of this Royall Family Duke of Orleans his character are in the first place Gaston Jean Baptist the Kings Vncle and Duke of Orleans Lieutenant General of the K. and Governor of Languedoc the same who during so many years as his Brother was without off-spring had those fair hopes of a Crown which however his merit and abilities for such a jewel be commonly disputed to his no great advantage certainly there is no man alive in competition with him for his exquisite skill in Medailes Topical memory and extraordinary knowledge in Plants in both which faculties the most reputed Antiquaries greatest Botanists do and that with reason acknowledg him both their Prince and superiour The Eldest daughter of this Duke is Anne Marie D'orleans Mademoiselle her character particularly called Mademoiselle Sans queüe per eminentiam as being the first in praeeminence and after the Queen greatest Lady in France to give whom the Epithetes of her great worth were to spoile all her sex of their Praises and make her as much envied as she is indeed justly to be admired The next in Blood and Ranke is Loüis de Bourbon the Prince of Condy Prince of Condy his descent and haracter the son of Henry de Bourbon who to so little purpose was yet so miraculously saved in the last bloudy and inhumane Parisian Massacre This Prince is Grand Maistre of France Governour of Bourgongne and Bery descended by a direct line masculine of Francois de Bourbon second brother of Antonee of Bourbon Earle of Marle afterwards Duke of Vandosme and King of Navarr the Father of Henry the Great and of Charlot Catherine de la Trimoüille his second Wife A Prince whose

Ethicall and Morall part of Travel which embellisheth a Gentleman in the first place having a due respect to the Religion which accomplisheth a Christian In short they are all severally very commendable accommodated to Persons and Professions nor should a Cavalier neglect to be seen in all of them But for that my intention is here to make an Introduction onely into mine own OBSERVATIONS I shall forbear to enter so large and ample a Field as the through handling of this Argument would insensibly oblige mee to do it having likewise been so abundantly treated of almost by every Pen which hath prevaricated on this Subject though in my slender judgment and under favour I must confesse without any real and ingenuous satisfation either to Truth or Curiosity To conclude Sir and contract this tedious transgression I conjure you to beleeve that I offer nothing to you in this discourse out of any the least self opinion censure of other men vanity or ostentation No I am assured you will find me far enough from that IdiopathiaE and common distemper of Travellers all I shall pretend being but to communicate unto you how I have lost part of those seven yeares and more which not being as in truth they ought to have been wholly exercised in the Benefit I might have reaped from your society at home I am obliged in Honour and for Justification of my self to render you an Accompt how they have been dispensed abroad I am very conscious to my self how much mine owne little interest hath suffered during mine absence in the judgement of your stayed and more Thriving Geniuses and such as might justly indeed derive Characters and Prognosticks from a raw and unsettled spirit such as was mine but considering that all those transirory Accidents of Fo tune and the world can no way farther extend themselves then to a very imperfect satisfaction of our regular and honest Appetites besides that which they ought yeeld unto others neither he who stayes at home nor he that goes abroad is in mine opinion to be altogether censured and blamed and truely he that can accommodate himself to so retired and contemplative a life as certainly that of a pure Country Gentlemans is frees himself of an innumerable Host of troubles and importunities which a Traveller runs through and is in a manner compelled to entertain Conformable to that of the most incomparable Claudian De Sene Veronensi Epig. Foelix qui propriis aevum transegit in arvis Ipsa domus puerum quem videt ipsa senem Qui baculo nitens in qua reptavit arena Unius numerat secula longa casae Illum non vario traxit fortuna tumultu● Nec bibit ignotas mobilis bospes aquas Non freta mercator timuit non classica miles Non rauci lites pertulit ille fori Indocilis rerum vicinae nescius urbis Adspectu frui●ur liberiore poli Frugibus alternis non Consule computat annum Autumnum pomis ver sibi flore notat Idem conditager Soles idem que reducit Metiturque suo rusticus orbe diem Ingentem meminit parvo qui germine quercum Aequae unumque videt consenuisse nemus Broxima cui nigris Verona remotior Indis Benacumque putat litora rubra lacum Sed tamen indomitae vires firmisque lacertis Aetas robustum tertia cernit avum Erret extremos alter scrutetur I beros Plus habet hic vitae plus habet ille Viae The serious contemplation whereof made me sometimes being at Naples break forth in this youthful but naturall Ode against Travell which I wil here pronounce for my finall * Scal. lib 3. Poet c. 106. dict 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 being a speech which was made to the Citizens by him that was returned home after his long travell Epibaterium Happie that man who lives content With his own Home and Continent Those chiding streams his banks docurb Esteems the Ocean to his Orb Round which when he a walk does take Thinks to perform as much as Drake For other Tongues he takes no thought Then what his Nurse or Mother taught He 's not disturbd with the rude cryes Of the * The guide or Messenger in Italy which in the Morning calls to Horse Procaccia's Up and Rise But charmd in down sleeps by the side Of his chast Love or Loyall Bride In whose smooth Arms no sooner hurld But he enjoys another world Where his Enfranchis'd hand may stray O're the warm snow or milkie way And thence as oft as it declines † Haec Comicè dicta cave ne malè capiat Tow'rds those more rich and hidden Mines Scornes us that travell Lands and Seas Beleeves no Kingdomes like to these If then at home such joyes be had Oh how unwise are we how mad● This I did once write and this I so beleeve as if God blesse me with a successefull Returne into my Native Country I shall endeavour Vivere non dicere huic veritati and though the Conscience of my personall inabilities can never tempt me with the vanity to think of any publick Advancement for having spent the prime of my years and youth abroad yet the contentment and satisfaction which I purpose and fancie to my self if I may obtaine leave but to enjoy that private condition and Fortune which Heaven hath decided me at home so that I can but rubb out of this into a better world without the least impeachment to my Religion and Loyalty Sublimi feriam sydera vertice I shall have arrived at the summ and very top of mine innocent wishes But if in the mean time it be otherwise ordained I have learned likewise to submit my self unto the will of God as being very apt to beleeve that excellent Apophthegme of the Wise man Quod Omne solum sit Forti Patria But now to our TRAVELLER again The principall places of EUROPE wherein a Gentleman may uno intuitu behold as in a Theater the chief and most signall Actions which out of his owne Countrey concerne this later Age and part of the World are the Netherlands comprehending Flanders and the divided Provinces which is a perfect Encycle and Synopsis of whatsoever one may elsewhere see in all the other Countryes of Europe And for this end I willingly recommend them to be first visited no otherwise then do those who direct us in the study of History to the reading first of some authentick Epitome or universall Chronology besore we adventure to launch forth into that vast and profound Ocean of voluminous Authours From thence I would advise him to traverse Germany altogether contrary to the Vulgar Method by reason of that so usefull Tongue which he will find very difficult and with much regret and many conflicts attained unto after the facill and more smooth Languages are once throughly imbibed not omitting comparatively even the French it self From this Region you naturally slide into Italy and then Embarquing for Spain return by a direct course unto Paris where indeed