are call'd by this name because in this place formerly there was Tuillerie or place to make Tiles Queen Catherine de Medices caused this building to be began in the Month of May of the year 1564 Loüis the Fourteenth has compleated it and rendred it August this Prince has planted in the Garden Sycomers and Indian Maroniers and other beautiful Trees he has made Knotâ— and Beds with all sorts of Flowers large Allieâ— little Wildernesses great Cesterns with theiâ— Jet d' Eaux and Terrasses and has placed excellent Statues in it that of Time which devours 〈◊〉 Children is very remarkable We see Diâ—na of Ephesus in one of the four Chambers of the ancient Pieces of the Louvre Fontainbleau THe number of excellent Fountains and great streams of water have given to this place the name it bears The Inhabitants think that the name Fontainbleau comes from a Fountain of fair water that is to be seen there at this day In the Palace we find four of them and as many Gardens its Chambers are very rich and its Galeries very beautiful in one of them are represented in excellent Painting the Fights and Victories of some Kings of France We see in another the Antiquities the Garden-Knots the Grotto's the Water-falls the fine Walks the great Mail the Meadows and the Groves that render this place famous we see the Hermitage of St. Loüis on a little knap in the midst of the way of the Forest which is very large and very full of all kind of Deer Joüin de Rochefort has excellently particulariz'd this Royal House Versailles THere is nothing more agreeable nothing more sumptuous nor magnificent than the Palace of Versailles Silk Gold Silver Pearls and Pretious Stones Paintings and Tapestry enrich it and yet infinitely more the presence of the Master Its Gardens are vast and charming and the water falls the finest that may be seen How admirable is the great Park with the great Channel which is thirty two fathoms wide nine hundred in length the two Horses that stand at its entrance in a fierce posture as those of Montecavallo in Rome draw on them the fixt eyes of the Passengers The Vivarium contains all sorts of wild Animals By the rule conveniunt rebus nomina saepè suis Versailles deserves to be called by this name because his Majesty pours there ordinarily his Favours and Blessings in a profuse manner on those who have the honour to be known to him This place is another Terrestrial Paradise for delights I think I give it its Elogy in saying It 's the work of Loüis the Fourteenth worthy of its Author so I say all The famous Painter Apelles being to represent the greatness of a Giant and considering that he could not include so great a Body in so small a space he bethought himself to represent only the Thumb with this Inscription at the bottom of the Picture Ex ungue Leonem The Lyon is known by his Claw that is to say from the proportion of this Thumb the greatness of the rest of the Body might be known A Greek Orator thought he had made a full Panegyrick on Philip King of Macedon by saying that he was Father of Alexander Cum te patrem Alexandri dixi totum dixi I judge also that the Elogy of Versailles is compleat after having said that it is the Work of our present King because this word in expression drains and consummates all its praises Non datur ultra The Ambassadors of Forreign Princes admiring this House of Pleasure say that it belongs but to a King of France to make the like I do not particularize it because we see on this subject a large Book which gives the entire description of it Paris ALL the Towns of the Kingdom govern themselves according to the motion of that of Paris which they look on as the Primum Mobile and as the Capital It is Royal Sacerdotal and the seat of the Prophets and one of the greatest and most famous of all Christendom They count in this famous City a Million and a half of persons the pleasant River Sein passes through the midst of it and wrests itself in and out at parting from it as though it were unwilling to leave it and to render it yet more agreeable the River Ourques is brought to it to supply the Trenches on the side of Montmartre by the cares of Sieur de Manse Treasurer-General of the Royal Hunting and Hawking Saint Denis Consecrated there the Churches of St. Steven of the Greeks that of Nostre Dame des Champs and that of St. Bennet of the University which was called before of the Trinity those of St. Denis of Charters and of St. Symphorien are very ancient Phillip the Second called August made an end of Building the great and stately Temple of Nostre Dame about the year 1200. It s Structure is admirable this Cathedral Church contains sixty six fathom in length twenty four in breadth and seventeen in heighth one hundred and twenty Pillars forty five Chappels a great many doors over the three chief there are twenty eight Statues of Kings of France of the holy Mysteries of our Religion which excites the Piety of the faithful There are three hundred eighty nine steps to the place where the Bells are the Towers are thirty four fathom in heighth above the Earth This place is lookt upon as the lowest of Paris the Office is there celebrated after a Divine manner Miracles are there wrought Matins are sung at Midnight six of its Canons have been Popes to wit Gregory the Ninth Adrian the Fifth Boniface the Eighth Innocent the Sixth Gregory the Eleventh and Clement the Seaventh fifteen or sixteen Canons of the same Church have been Cardinals Abbot Parfait the ancientest Canon of this Church has composed a fine Book containing the number of Popes Cardinals Bishops and Archbishops that this Metropolis has afforded and other singularities since St. Denis to Messire Francis de Harlay de Chanvalon The late Dean Messire John de Contes Counsellor of State in ordinary consummated in the practice of the Church has often governed this Diocess to the satisfaction of all men He dyed full of years the fourth of July 1679. His most worthy Nephew Abbot Mony who walks in his steps succeeded him as Heir to his Vertues his Actions are accompanied with sweetness prudence gravity and modesty His Brother Abbot Bongueret Canon in the same Church is very learned in the Science of the Canon-Law This Chapter is a Nursery of Bishops This City contains Eleven Chapters a great number of very fair Parishes whereof some are equal to good Bishopricks above sixty Colledges it was once propos'd to have them reduced to six because many of them are one-ey'd so call'd because there is nothing done in them as in many other Kingdoms This Town contains also an infinite number of Religious Houses excellent Fountains Aqueducts many Bridges amongst which Pont-neuf which is all of stone surpasses all
ejus Rhodum tenuit I shall also say that these Dukes bear the Arms of the Kingdom of Cyprus This Crown gives them the Title of Royal Highness They are descended from the ancient House of Saxony They were called in the first place Earls of Morienne then Earls of Savoy till Amedée the Eighth whom the Emperour Sigismond created Duke Anno 1416 or 1417. It was Amé the Fifth surnamed the Great who caused Mahomet the second of the name Emperour of the Turks to raise his Siege from before the City of Rhodes The House of Savoy has been acknowledged Soveraign for above six hundred years it has afforded many Empresses and Queens Turin in the Plain of Piemont on the Bank of the Po is the capital City of the Dukes Territories Chamberry is of Savoy and has a Parliament The Court of this Prince is very splendid his Royal Highness holds it at Turin where there is a great Garison The Dukes new Palace is one of the finest of Italy it is composed of four pavillions with great piles of Lodgings joyning to it and in a great Court is seen the brazen Figure of Charles Emanuel the Second on a Horse of Marble represented to the life The old Palace flankt with four great round Towers guarded with a large Trench and which faces a large void space is embellished with a fair Gallery filled with excellent Pictures which represent the Christian Princes and the Genealogy of the Dukes of Savoy The little Chariot with six horses in their harness all cover'd with pretious Stones is an Ornament and many other Rarieties The Metropolitan Church called the Dome dedicated to St. John is the depository of the holy face-cloath on which we see imprinted the face and other parts of the body of the Son of God The other Towns of Piemont are Vercelli Susa Turée Mondevis Ast Carignan Carmagnolo St. Tas. Susa is the first that is found at the entrance of Italy at the foot of the Alps ten leagues from Turin Pompey established there a Colony which gives testimony of its antiquity It has passed for the Capitol of the small Principality of the little King Coetius This Country is fertile Provisions are cheap and Silver scarce because there is no Trade Susa which is in Persia is more renowned than that before-mentioned because the great Assuerus who commanded from the Indies even to Æthiopia an hundred twenty seven Provinces and other Kings have held there their Court Piemont has two or three Rivers whose banks afford Gold it is found divided into slender parcels called Threads The way of gathering it is noted in a book intituled Conversations de l' Academie de l' Abbé Bourdelot in the Chapter of the Philosophers Stone which was the subject of a long Conference The principal Towns of Savoy after Chamberry are Anneci St. John de Morienne Monstier in Tarentaise and others Montmebian is the strongest place Savoy was called by this name as who would say Sauve-voye or safe-way and this since it was purged of Way-Robbers and Murtherers who rendered the ways dangerous and unpassable or else from a Village called Sabbatie or Sabaudie which Ptolomy and other Geographers place under the Alps. According to the opinion most followed it took its name from Sabaudus Archbishop of Arles who made it Catholick Its Mountains bring forth many Monkeys These Animals sleep six months of the year they have the mussel and ears of a Squiril and four long and sharp teeth the legs short great nails on their feet and the hair rough Chimney-sweepers bring of them to Paris they are easily taken when they are asleep The Latines call this Animal Mus Alpinus There are a great many in the Mountains of Switzerland Chateauniere deGrenaille tells us that persons that cannot sleep or that are tormented with the Cholick find themselves relieved by rubbing their belleys with their fat Many Mountaineers get Strumous swellings by drinking snow-Snow-water which by its crudity ill quality causes the glandulous swelling about the throat Mount Cenis and little St. Bernard are the principal passages of the Alps for Italy Great Mount Cenis is the ordinary Road of the Posts of France and little Mount Cenis is a shorter way but more uneasie We find there the invention of a sort of Sled on which a man sitting advances in less than half a quarter of an hour a league by sliding on the Snow from the top of the Mountain to the bottom There are persons trained to this exercise called Sled-drivers who guide the Sled by stopping it when it is necessary with a great Prong of iron which they fix in the way On the top of the Mountain there are houses which they call the Ramass where the Sled-drivers are by whom men cause themselves to be driven on a Sled when they go to Lasneburg We find on the right hand the Chappel into which those persons are carried who are killed by the extremity of the cold in their Journey and on whom is found no mark of their Religion When persons so killed are discovered to be Catholicks they are buried in the next Catholick Church-yard If they are Protestants they are carried into the next Church-yard of theirs Those that go into this Chappel fancy they are in the Kingdom of the Dead the Air is so subtile that those bodies do not putrifie there are many of them entire with their flesh skin and hair without having changed but a very little of their colour They are placed in order upright against the walls of this Chappel a place of sadness and melancholy Mount St. Gothard which is the passage from Switzerland has also a Chappel of persons frozen to death Our Lady of Laghette is very famous two leagues from Nice The greatest part of the Tombs of the Dukes of Savoy are in the rich Abbey of Haute-combe on the Lake Bourget The Dominions of this Prince may be seventy leagues in length and thirty or forty in breadth and in some parts above fifty Spain would have swallowed them up in the minority of Charles Emanuel the Second but France opposing it made them give over the Attempt His Royal Highness has four houses of pleasure about Turin which must not be forgotten to wit that de la Grande Venerie Royal that of Valentin and those of Mirefleur and of Rovili Purpurat must also be added to the number Nor must we omit la Generale which belongs to President Truchy a Minister of State of a great understanding and equally zealous for the service of his Prince At the beginning of the year 1679 the Abbot d' Estrade at his return from his Embassie from Venice where he resided three years was sent to this Court with the Character of Embassadour of France his entry was very solemn He succeeded to Duke Villars chosen for the Embassie of Spain where he formerly was and the Marquess Ferrero was appointed Embassadour of Savoy with the most Christian King The Ratification of the Marriage of the Duke
at Blois and at Saumur than at Paris which seems a Paradox for there where the Court is the French Academy the greatest Preachers of the Kingdom and a most renowned Bar the Language ought to be most pure and polite This may be a little Problematical because the diversity of Nations that are at Paris cause the corruption of the Language You must observe that Sienna has a flourishing Academy and that almost all the Towns of Italy have Academies we see them mentioned in a book of the Academy of the Abbot Bourdelot containing divers Researches It is to be had at Thomas Moettes in Harp-street at the signe of St. Alexis The Duke of Mantua Charles the Third of the House of Gonzaga Duke of Mantua Cath. His Arms are Argent a Cross Pattee Gules between four Eagles Sable on the whole an Escutcheon quarterly first gives a Lion Rampant Or and 3 Bars Sable He resides at Mantua a very large strong and pleasant City which was built by Manto the Prophetess Daughter of Tiresias It is esteemed more ancient than Rome by 670 years It is scituated on the Lake Benar which has ten leagues circumference This Town has some Bridges on which a man may walk guarded from the Rain in some places that of St. George is five hundred paces in length Mantua was made a Marquisate An. 1433. by the Emperour Sigismond and a Dutchy Anno 1530. by the Emperour Charles the Fifth in favour of Frederick de Gonzaga The Dukes Palace is very beautiful it is at one of the ends of the Town Montferrat at the foot of the Alps is of his dependancies whereof Cazal is the Capital it 's a very large Fortress its Cavalry are esteemed throughout all Italy Part of Montferrat was yielded to the Duke of Savoy by the Treaty of Peace at Quiras The Duke of Mantua possesses Cazal The Country is very fertile but very small they are there courteous and officious particularly to the French in remembrance of the assistance they â—â—orded them in time of need The two famous Poets Virgil and Tasso were of Mantua The Cathedral-Church called St. Andrew is remarkable for its Pictures and Tombs Under the Quire is a vast Chappel where is preserved the Bloud of the Son of God gathered by St. Longis on Mount Calvary Some little Soveraignties have been dismembred from the Dutchy of Mantua to make Poâ—tions of Lands for younger Brothers Bozolâ— Mirandula Sabioneta Novalara Gustala and others are of the number The Dutchy yield its Prince a million yearly The Body of the Jews there living is composed of above two thousand who are rich by reason of their great Trade the Duke gets great Tribute from them Strangers that go to Mantua if they are curious should not return without visiting Maâ—mirol a Country-house of Pleasure belonging tâ— the Duke This place is charming for its Marble for its Grotto's for its Conduits for it Gardens for its Fountains and Jet d'eaus for its Paintings Sculptures and Figures This State is said to be 35 miles from North to South and 50 from East to West The Po the Seiche the Ogli and the Mine are its most considerable Rivers A Relation of the 23th of August 1679. tells us that a Gentleman was cured at Mantua of a Tertian Ague by an extraordinary Remedy in the strongest time of the Fit He was covered with pieces of Ice in his bed and this freezing Remedy cured him at the first application but he remained so weak that he had much ado to set himself right again The Physicians of the East-Indies on the Coast of Coromandel even at Surat take near the same course with those that have Agues The Spaniards drink with Ice at the strongest time of the Fit The Duke of Modena Alphonsus d'Est the third of the name Duke of Modena Besides this Quality he takes that of Duke of Regio of Prince of Carpi and of Corregio of Marquess d'Est and of Rovigni Cath. His Arms are Azure an Eagle Argent crowned billed and membred Or. Modena is the Capital of the Dutchy of this name and the ordinary place of residence of its Duke Its Bulwarks are made of the ancient fashion If this State be small it is good Renaud Cardinal d'Est Bishop of Regio was Protector of some Crowns at the Court of Rome The Dukal Dignity began in the House of Modena An. 1452. under the Emperour Frederick the Third The ancient Houses of Brunswick in Germany and of Modena in Italy are of the same Stock and make good their Descent almost from the year 800. The Duke of Parma and of Placentia Rainutio Farnesis Duke of Parma and of Placentia Cath. His Arms are Or with six Flower-de-luces Azure Petro Luigi Farnesis was the first Duke of Parma Alexander Farnesis youngest Son of Pedro Luigi was one of the greatest Captains of his Age. Pope Paul the Sixth born at Farnesis began the Council of Trent Parma is the Capital of the Dutchy and the ordinary place of residence of the Duke The Dukes Palace is beautiful the Citadel is not amiss the Soil is good it contains in many places excellent Fields and fat Pastures for feeding all sorts of Cattel and particularly Cows It s great Parmesan-Cheeses are very famous they are sent in so great a number into all parts of Europe that this sole Merchandize is able to inrich the Inhabitants The Country is so fertile that all things necessary and commodious for the life of man are there found The Po the Trebeia and the Taro water it This State has not much above 25 leagues in length and 20 in breadth The Bishop of Trent THe Bishop and Prince of Trent is called Alberti he was made Bishop Anno 1677. The Cathedral Church is dedicated to St. Vigil it is built of great Free-stone even to its high Steeple its Canons are all of Noble extraction and have the right of chusing their Bishop The Town of Trent besides its Antiquity is famous throughout the World for its General and Oecumenical Council held under three Popes It began under Paul the Third Anno 1545. continued under Julius the Third and ended under Pius the Fourth 1563. It continued a long time because it was interrupted on the occasion of Troubles and Wars betwixt Christian Princes All Church-men ought to read continually this Council Trentin is a Province near the Alps. It s Capital City is on the River Adige This Principality is under the protection of the House of Austria as the Principality of Mourgue or Monacho is under that of France The Figure of Italy and its Length ITaly has the figure of a Cavalier's Boot and is 300 common leagues of France in length from Chamberry to Regio which is at the farthest part of Calabria As for its wideness it is small and unequal in some places it is 30 in others 50 and elsewhere 100 French leagues wide The Alps divide it from France and Germany Lombardy is included in Italy The States of Savoy
of the name caus'd it to be built and to be covered with silver This Prince Founder of the Abbey died the 19th of Jan. of the year 648. There is seen in the Treasury a Missal written by the hand above 800 years since and a Manuscript above eleven hundred years old which contains the four Gospels written in Characters of gold and silver on Velam of a purple colour A Book of Velam covered with silver containing the Works of St. Denis the Areopagite Another Book written by hand which contains the Epistles and Gospels of the great Feasts Gold pretious Stones and great Pearls cover it Moreover another Book concerning the Ceremonies and Prayers of the Kings Coronation In a rich Cross-case a foot and a halfs length of the true Cross One of the Nails with which the Son of God was fastened to the Cross a Thorn of the Crown and some of the Spunge with which they presented him Gall. Some of the Myrrh which the Magicians presented him one of the Pitchers in which he chang'd Wine into Water at the Wedding of Cana in Galilee and a great many Shrines wherein Relicks are kept A great Cross of massie Gold cover'd with pretious Stones and set round with oriental Pearls A little Crucisix made of the wood of the true Cross The Heads of St. Denis St. Hilary and St. Bennet are extreamly rich The Miter of the first is of Gold and all cover'd with pretious Stones and oriental Pearls those of the others are also of a great price The Head of St. Loüis King of France is at Paris in the holy Chappel of the Palace Jean d' Eureux Queen of France took it from the Treasury of St. Denis and put in its place parcels of all the Relicks that are in the said holy Chappel There is seen in the same Treasury of St. Denis a Cup of Tamarisk-wood in which St. Loüis drank to keep himself from the Spleen A Vessel of an oriental Agate esteem'd one of the most pretious pieces of the Treasury for its largeness antiquity and work It 's believed that Ptolomy Philadelphus caused it to be made and that it was working with the point of a Diamond for thirty years Another Vessel of Gold in the form of a Salver adorn'd with Granats Jacinths and with a great white Saphire in the midst on which is seen the Effigies of King Solomon seated in his Throne It is judg'd that it appertained to this Monarch as also a great Vessel of Rock-Christal by reason of some Inscriptions in Samaritan Characters A Gamahoea in an Agat-stone expressing the Image of the Queen of Saba Many Crowns of Gold and Silver that of Charlemain St. Loüis Henry the Fourth Loüis the Thirteenth and Loüis the Fourteenth Each of these Kings has given to the Treasury two Crowns one of Gold the other of Silver gilt That of Charlemain which is carried to Rheims to serve at the Coronation of our Kings with the other Royal Ornaments is all of Gold adorn'd with great Rubies Saphirs and Emeralds The Crown of St. Loüis is likewise of massie Gold adorn'd with very beautiful pretious Stones amongst others with a Ruby valued at a hundred thousand crowns in which is inchast by the Kings order a Thorn of the Crown of the Son of God There is seen the Image of the same St. Loüis gravd on a Ring with these two letters S and L that is to say Sigillum Ludovici because he made use of it to seal his Letters All the Kings have shewn themselves liberal to this Treasury some Abbots of the Order have also given to it particularly Abbot Suger His two little Pots are not common the one is of Rock-Christal the other of Beril cut with the point of a Diamond His Chalice is made of a very fair oriental Agate In this Treasury are kept a great many Swords that of Charlemain that which St. Loüis brought with him at his first Voyage from the Holy Land that of the Pucelle of Orleans Joanne d' Arc and also the Sword of Turpin who having been made Archbishop of Rheims afterwards bore Arms against the Infidels There are seen there many other Pieces of Antiquity So much for a Sample of this Treasury He that desires to see more may go to St. Denis where a Religious man shews it every day at two of the clock in the afternoon Those that cannot come to see it may read a little Book in 12º entitul'd Inventaire du Tresor de S. Denis where all the Pieces are briefly describ'd according to the Order of the eight Presses where they are shewn This little Book is printed at Paris by Pierre de Bost Rue S. Jacques at the signe of St. Francis near St. Severin The Tombs of the Kings of France DAgobert the First eleventh King of France and St. Loüis the forty fourth have their Tombs in the Quire of the Church and many other Kings and Queens In the common Vault of Rites repose Henry the Fourth Mary de Medicis his Wife Loüis the Thirteenth Anne of Austria his Spouse The Duke of Orleans the Kings Uncle Madam de Montpensier his first Wife Henriette-Marie Queen of England Henriette-Anne her Daughter the first Wife of Monsieur the Kings Brother and others The Monument of Francis the First is out of the Quire on the side of the Cloister in a rais'd Monument They count five Kings out of the Quire on the Gospel-side Marshal de Turenne is in a Chappel near the high Altar Loüis the 14th has caus'd a Monument to be rais'd in his memory and in acknowledgment of the great Services he did to France After his death many Services and Funeral Prayers were said for him in the principal Churches of Paris Bertrand du Quesclin Sancerre a Gentleman of Britany Constable of France has his Tomb for his Fidelity and Valour amongst those of the Kings by the order of Charles the Fifth called the Wise Clouis the first of the name the fifth King of France and Clotilde his Spouse have their Mausolea at Paris in the Abbey of St. Genevieve in the Quire Other famous places of Devotion and Pilgrimages greatly frequented in the Kingdom and favour'd with the kindest Aspect of Heaven THe Church of Nostre-Dame at Paris in the Isle of France that of the Abbey of St. Genevieve and the Chappel of the Hospital of the Holy Ghost Nostre-dame de Grace near Gallion in the Diocess of Roüen Nostre-Dame de Chartres in Beausse Nostre-Dame de L' Epine near Chalons in Champagne Nostre-Dame de Liesse in Picardy Nostre-Dame de Bologne on the Sea Nostre-Dame de la Deliverance and Mount S. Michel in Normandy Sainte-Reine in Burgundy Nostre-Dame d' Alizor near Lyons Nostre-Dame de Loisiere and la Chartreuse of Grenoble in Daulphine St. Maximin Saint Baume and St. Martha in Provence Nostre-Dame de Rochefort in Languedoc les Avignon Nostre-Dame de Grau called la Grenoüillade at half a league from Agde Nostre-Dame de Consolation half a league from
Grand-child of Messire Michel le Tellier Chancellour of France Anjou has for Governour Count d' Armagnac the Kings Master of the Horse Touraine the Marquess de Dangeau Le Maine Laval and le Perche the Marquess de Fervaques Poitou the upper and lower the Duke of Vieville Xaintonge and Angoumois the Duke de Crussol The Country of Aunis and Broüage the Duke de Navailles Nivernois the Duke of Nevers The Country of Foix the Marquess de Mirepoix Navarre and Bearn Duke Anthony Charles de Grammont Soveraign of Bidache his Father Duke and Earl Marshal of France Knight of the Kings Orders died at Bayonne the 83 year of his age the 12th of July 1678. Conquer'd Countries THe upper and lower Alsatia have for Governours the Duke de Mazarin Duke of Mielleraye and Mayenne Peer of France and particular Governour of the Towns Citadels and Castles of Brisac la Fere Vitre Vincennes Port-Loüis and other places Lorrain the Marshal de Crequy The Town and Citadel of Metz and Vic the Marshal Duke de la Ferte-Seneterre Toul the Count de Pas de Feuquieres The Duke de Noailles Peer of France Captain of the first Company of the Life-guard is Governour of Roussillon and Lieutenant-General in upper Auvergne The Duke and Marshal de Duras Knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost has the Government of Franche Comté Marshal d' Humieres is Governour and Lieutenant-General of Flanders and particular Governour of Lille Count de Monthron Governour of Arras and Lieutenant-General in the Country of Artois These Provinces have Lieutenant-Generals some more some fewer The particular Governours of Towns Citadels and other places are in a very great number The Fertility of France ITs Provinces are worth Kingdoms it 's in France where we see the level Fields fertile in all sorts of Grain the Hills cover'd with Vines pleasant Meadows beautiful Forrests fair Olive-trees and Orange-trees and all sorts of Fruits It may be said that this is the Land whereof the Scripture speaks which flows with Milk and Honey which includes within it all that is necessary for life without having recourse to strangers who stand in need of its Corn and famous Wines Salt and Iron are there common Mines of Gold and Silver might be discover'd there if men would go to the charge If Egypt glories in its Fertility and Fruits Italy in its beautiful Gardens England in its fair Parks Poland in its vast Meadows France possesses all these advantages in an eminent degree Its Sea-coasts have secure Harbours and Ports full of all sorts of Merchandise and its Rivers are navigable If it does not bring forth Cloves Nutmegs and Cinnamon as the Molucca Islands Ginger and Pepper as Calecut Perfumes as Arabia Diamonds as the Isle of Ceilan Emeralds as China Rubies as Peru Topases and Pearls as India it has men able to conquer all this and do not fail to do it An Historiographer of Brandenburg relates in his Researches that on consideration of the power of this Monarch an Emperour of the West call'd Maximilian said once by way of discourse that if it were possible and just to wish it he would that he had three Children whereof the eldest should be God the second King of France and the third Emperour The Channel of Languedoc THere has been made of late years in this Province a great Channel for the communication of the Mediterranean Sea with the Ocean by joyning the River Aude which enters into the Mediterranean Sea to the River Garone which discharges it self into the Ocean by the means of many Rivers whose waters are kept with Sluces in this great Channel capable of conveying Barks for transporting Merchandise and other things from the Town of Narbonne to that of Tolose and thence to Bourdeaux The designe of this great Work was projected by Henry the Fourth examin'd and approv'd by Loüis the 13th and put in execution by Loüis the Fourteenth to whom we must give the glory This incomparable Monarch for this effect made use of the conduct of Sieur Paul de Riquet Native of Beziers and Baron of Bonerepos This Channel is about thirty five leagues in length from Cape Sette which is four leagues from Montpellier to Tâ—â—se The Rigole which contains the Waters of the Mountain Moire to the point where the Waters part called Naurouse contains five leagues The place where the Waters part or the Reserver is as large as the Place Royal at Paris The Waters are kept by two strong and thick Walls in which are great Cocks that are open'd with wickets to give a passage to the great Cestern made of an octangular figure Pursuant to this Enterprize there are made ten Bridges thirty five Mills and a hundred and fourteen Sluces The new Port made under Cape Sette is scituate in the Diocess of Agde two Moles will incompass it which issue from the firm Land viz. the Isthmus which separates the Pond Tau from the Mediterranean Sea Though the performance of this Master-piece has seem'd impossible to many persons it will be perfected in much less time than the new Discovery of the North-East-passage to China and Japan by the Hollanders who have been about it above eight hundred years This passage is betwixt Spïstzberg and Nova Zembla Julius Caesar Caligula and Nero undertook to cut the Isthmus of Corinth and to make navigable Morea or Peloponnesus by the communication of the Ægaean and Ionian Seas Their Enterprize came to nothing To facilitate the Commerce of the Ocean Mediterranean and Caspian Seas it was formerly propos'd at the Court of the Great Duke of Muscovy to joyn these great Rivers together the Volge the Duinus and the Dom for the communication of the chief Seas of our Continent This designe also fail'd of success but this here will not prove abortive and though nine or ten years have been employ'd already to do what is done we must make use of the Proverb Sat citò si sat benè Things are soon enough done that are well done The Mother of Hercules was a whole night in bringing him forth They go of late conveniently from Castelnaudary so far as Tolose which are two Towns distant from each other ten leagues of Province which equal twenty of the Isle of France When we go by land at Bastide we begin to find the great Channel of the communication of the two Seas This Work has not been carried on without interruption This joyning of the two Seas will serve moreover for the conveniency of conveying the Merchandise of the Levant and of all the Mediterranean into the Ocean not to run a risk with them by the Strait nor expose them to the pyracies of those of Algiers and other Towns of Barbary The Sieur de Riquet who drew the designe of the Channel for the two Seas and who has always had the direction of it died the first of October 1680. in his house of Frescati at Tolose He has rendred himself famous by his Enterprize which no
very deep it is large and very full of Sand wherefore Vessels often run a ground there It passes through the midst of the Kingdom and divides it almost into two equal parts The source of this and of Alliers are near each other Alliers le Cher Auron Lindre the Saudre the Huine the Loire the Sarthe the Mayenne the Vienne the Clein and other Rivers discharge themselves into this River which has its beginning and end in France The Seine comes from the Mountain Vogesus in the Dutchy of Burgundy S. Seine gave it its name it being the nearest place of note to its source This River passes at Chatillon Nogent Montereau Melun Corbeil Paris Mantes Vernon Roüen and at Pont de Larche Its Rivers are the Marne Yonne the Oyse the Ayne the Eure and others The Ayne enters into the Oyse the River call'd the Loire passes at Montargis and receives the Channel of Briare for the communication of the Loin and the Seine for Paris This Channel was made under Henry the Fourth The Garonne issues from the Pyrenean Mountains near a place call'd Gadeloup Its source is affirm'd to be in the little Valley of Aran. It passes at Tolose at Moissac Agen Marmande Cadillac and at Bourdeaux Its Rivers are the Taru the Lot and the Pordogne The Epithetes of these four Rivers are RHodanus rapidus Ligoris latus Sequanus profundus Garumna obliquus Rhone the rapid Loire the large Seine the profound Garonne the oblique because it wrests in and out The Poets call the Rhone by reason of its rapidity the hasty the swift the precipitate The principal small Rivers are THe Charente the Somme the Saonne Alliers the Tarn the Lot the Dordogne The Somme is famous in Picardy it begins by a Saint and ends by another which are S. Quentin and S. Valery Hau Peronne Amiens and Abbeville are water'd with it The Charente passes through Angoumois and Xaintonge waters the Towns of Angoulesm and and Xaintes The Saône coasts along Burgundy passes at Châlon and Mascon and goes to Lyons It s source is near Lorrain Its Waters are stagnating and dull The Poets have call'd it the Tardy the Slow the Sluggish Bouche Larroux and others are of Burgondy Allier waters Bourbonnois and goes to Moulins The Tar crosses Rovergne and Albigeois passes at Millain Albi and at Montaubon The Aveiron renders its Waters at Rhodes the Agout at Castres Puilaurens and Lavoir the Lot at Cahors divides Quercy and Agenois The Dordogne waters Limosin and Perigord its source is at the foot of Mount Or in Auvergne it passes at Bretenoux Sarlac Bergerac Sainte Foy and at Libourne It 's the fullest of Fish of any in the Kingdom and particularly fertile in Salmons The Gave and the Gave water Bearn The Vilaine and others Britany Aremorick Vien and Tarion Limosin The Dour in Gascogne passes at Tarbes Aire Dax and at Bayonne the Bidouze enters into the Dour The Vienne the Chein and the Vouzelle are in Poictou The Auron the Cher and the Indre in Berry The Orbe the Brille and Drome in Normandy The Sarthe the Huine and others in le Maine The Loir the Dive and others in Anjou The Eure in Beausse The Doux which was once bitter in Franche Comté The Marne and the Vesle in Champagne The Isaire and the Drac in Daulphine The Izaire rises in Savoy passes at Grenoble enters with the Drac into the Rhône near Valence and not at Vienne as an Author has written If he never was at Valence he ought to have had a good Geographical Map which would have kept him from committing this oversight To the Izaire has been given the name of Serpent because it torns and wrests very much It 's by way of allusion that it 's said Draco Serpens evertunt Gratianopolin Those are two scurvy Rivers very rapid Some years since the Serpent overthrew the Stone-bridge of Grenoble which has since been rebuilt The Durance and the Varthe are in Provence the first waters Sisteron and Cavaillon it 's very rapid and apt to do mischief being of the nature of certain persons full of gall and bitterness Fish cannot live in it The Varthe is pronounc'd the Val. The Ardeche and the Cetze water Vivarez The Aude and the Eraut are in Languedock the first passes at Aleth and at Carassome An arm of this River waters Narbonne by a great Channel which divides it into two parts The Eraut breeds a great number of Trouts descends from Sevenes joyns it self to the River Are passes at Ganges at la Roque at S. Basil and goes to Agde One of the Barons de la Roque has preserv'd the Catholick Religion in his place of residency which is very strongly seated and which has been the Sanctuary of the Catholicks of the Country in the times of the Wars of Religion It is known by tradition that Beza being come thither from Ganges to preach his new Doctrine he was expelled by that Lord. The Lady of the place was seduc'd before and the Inhabitants passionately desir'd to hear him preach because it had been represented to them that he preacht nought but the pure Word of God and the Reformation of the Age and that he was an extraordinary Preacher Beza was already got into the Church de la Madelein when the Baron came from his Castle accompanied with his Domesticks and with Partisans and Halberds This River Eraut before it reaches Ganges coasts along by the Baronny of Sumene The present Baron formerly one of the Kings Counsellours in his Court of Accounts Tributes and Finances of Montpellier has a very fair Castle at Roger by le Causse against the Mountain Esperou where there are Simples of a very great vertue The Physitians of Montpellier go ordinarily there every year a simpling a man is perfumed when he passes through its Meadows all deckt with Flowers There has been found there sometime an Herb which pull off Horses shoes and which creates hunger in persons that tread on it The ancient Castle of Roger during the Wars of Religion was a place of Refuge for the Catholicks thereabout The Pretenders to Religion laid a heavie hand on it by demolishing a part of it two several times If we nam'd in Bearn the Gave and the Gave it 's because there are two of them we may also say the Gandon and the Gandon in Sevenes and in Languedoc compos'd of many Streams and Rivers One passes at St. Jean de Gardonenque at Mialet and at Auduze The Marquisate of this Town is in the ancient House of Aire-Baudouze and has given the Church three or four Bishops the Town has also given some they are found all nam'd in the Book intituled Gallia Christiana The present Marquess commands a Regiment bearing his name The Barony of Ganges which is not far from Auduze is made a Marquisate of late years in the House of Tude Its Marquesses have had Regiments and some particular Governments The Chevalier de Ganges was chosen to
command the Regiment which the Estates of Languedoc granted the King An. 1677. The other Gandon passes at Alez a pleasant Town for its fair and vast Meadow-ground We see there yet some Reliques of the most beautiful Garden which the Constable Montmorency caus'd to be made there This Gandon passes before the ancient Castle of S. Martin de la Fare The Family of this Marquess is originally of lower Languedoc the Frontier of Sevenes near Alez It 's an Illustrious and ancient House of which the late high and mighty Lord Messire Jacques de la Fare Marquess de la Fare Vicount de Montclar Baron de la Salle Lord of Bastide S. Martin Soudorgne Paupidor and other places has had many Children He married the Daughter of Comte de Lussan from which Marriage are issued nine Sons and four Daughters Of the males there are eight who long time serv'd his Majesty in his Armies and have had considerable Employs Let us make an of end our Gardons they descend from Serenes and meet under the Village Ners three or four leagues from Nismes and pass under the famous Pont du Gard to go find the impetuous Rhône Pont du Gard. FRance is oblig'd to the Romans for having built for it on two Mountains this famous Bridge which contains three the one on the other The building is of Free-stone of a surprizing breadth and length the stones are without Linâ—-mortar or ought else to bind them Thâ— highest Bridge was built to uphold an Aqueduct for conveying waters to Nismes for its embellishment and for a perpetual memory Some persons think that it was in order to make some Sea-fights alledging that Nismes did not want water for its ordinary use The first Bridge contains six Arches the second eleven the third thirty six The first is a hundred and fifty paces in length the second two hundred seventy five and the third three hundred They say that that person has not seen Pont du Gard who has not seen the Hare because the figure of it is seen there in Relief on the second Bridge against the top of the Pillar of the third Arch. Louis the Thirteenth and Loüis the Fourteenth Kings of France went to see this curious Piece of Roman Antiquity when they were in Languedoc This Bridge was call'd Pont du Gard because it is scituated on the River Gardon and retains its name even to this present time The Marquess of S. Privat Baron of Fournez and Lord of other places has a Castle by the side of the Bridge and resides there ordinarily when he is in his dominions Cardinal de Richelieu and Cardinal Mazarin have lodged there This ancient House has always been well allyed and with the chief of Daulphiné These great Springs of Water that boil forth the Fountain of Vigan and of Sauve in Sevenes and that of Nan in Roüergue which equal Rivers deserve to be mentioned with that of Nismes at the foot of Tournemagne adorn'd with a great Cestern and which drives six or seven Mills The Fountain of Vaucleuse is likewise famous If that of Nismes be considerable for the opening of a Rock whence issues a great Spring of very clear water the bottom of which is not to be perceiv'd Its Amphitheater there is remarkable for its great and large Stones A modern Author has committed on this subject a great Anacronism or a supposition of a time far distant from another when he said that these Stones clove asunder at the death of Jesus Christ not considering that the Amphitheater was not then in being and that it was not built till a long time afterwards It is thought that it was begun under the Emperour Adrian and ended under Antonius Pius Native of Nismes a long time after the Ascension of the Son of God The same Author did not also observe that the Goths Enemies of the Works of the Romans put sire to this Amphitheater which has caus'd the cleaving and blackness You may see what is writ thereon by the ancient Counsellor Guiran of Nismes he is the last who has spoken of it The square House which serv'd for the Praetorium or the place where Justice was administred and the Temple of Diana are moreover ancient Monuments of this Town formerly a Colony of the Romans Arles and Xaintes have also Amphitheaters where many sports were celebrated and where men were made to sight with wild Beasts If the Fountains of which I spake even now are publickly known those of Main and Monfrin in bas Languedoc of Vic in Auvergne at the Fonsanche half a league above Sauve are extreamly frequented for their Medicinal and Purgative vertue they are as good as those of the Spaw and of Ems in Germany The goodness of the Fountain of Vic was discover'd by a Cow which being the leanest of the Herd became the fairest and fattest because she alone drank of that water Amongst the Medicinal Fountains of Vals we see four that issue from the same Rock and pass through divers Minerals producing different effects That of Fonsanche ebbs and flows men drink at one place there and bathe at another the Mud of this Fountain is good against sore Eyes The Waters of Camarez in Roüergne are also esteemed A value also is set on the Waters of Sainte Reine in Burgundy and on those of Forges The Baths of Baleruc four leagues from Montpellier those of Bagnols in Givodan those of Moulins Alchambaut in Bourbonnois and of Barege at the Pyreneans are singular they strengthen comfort and cure many infirm persons There is seen in the season a great concourse of people In the year of the World 2218. Ana the Son of Sebeon Prince of Seir found first of all Springs of hot Water he is the Inventor of Hot Baths according as Torniel and the greatest part of the Interpreters of Scripture affirm A Catalogue of the Archbishopricks of France and the Suffragan Bishopricks containing the number and the name of the first and last Bishop of each Diocess to the year 1680. The Archbishoprick of Rheims RHeims has had ninety four Bishops and Archbishops from S. Sixtus to Messire Charles-Maurice le Tellier first Ecclesiastical Duke and Peer of France Legat of course to the Holy See and Primate of the Belgick Gauls Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbon and Great Master of the Kings Chappel of Musick He succeeds Cardinal Antony Barbarin whose Epitaph which denotes a profound Humility is coucht in these terms by the order of his late Eminency Hic jacet pulvis cinis nihil The Archbishop of Rheims at the Royal Consecration and Coronation Anoints and Crowns the King It s Suffragans are eight Amiens Beauvais Boulogne Châlons on Marne Laon Noyon Senlis and Soissons Cambray and Tournay belong'd formerly to the Archbishoprick of Rheims wherefore the Archbishops of Rheims signified their Protestation against the erection of the Archbishoprick of Cambray Messire Charles le Tellier caus'd his to be signified to Messire Christopher de Brias
there is a fair House of Pleasure belonging to the Dukes of Lorain Mausoleums of the Dukes of Lorain THeir Tombs are in divers Abbeys to wit in that of Clairlieu Clairfountain Beaupre and since these three hundred years at Nancy at S. Georges and at the Cordeliers There are in Lorain four famous Abbeys of Ladies Canonesses to wit of Remiremont EpÃnal Poussai and Boussiere these Ladies may marry themselves excepting the Abbesses and others of the chief they are of Noble extraction Lorain is very fertile both in Corn Wine and Pasturage it brings forth good Horses and divers Animals Venison is almost as common as Beef in a great many Butchers stalls Fish abound there by reason of the River Maes and other Rivers very full of them as the Moselle the Sare the Meurte and the Selle This issues from the Pond Indre of which the Carps alone bring its Master once in three years 16000 Livres of Rent as it has been attested to me by some of the chief Officers of the late Prince Charles the Fourth The other Ponds are considerable there are four or five of this greatness If Switzerland has great Lakes Lorain has Ponds very full of Fish A Lake is distinguisht from a Pond or Marsh that the first is a deep water and has Springs which never dry and a Pond is a gathering together of waters more subject to diminish Ponds are emptied but not Lakes This Country has Salt-works of a great revenue Rosieres Dieuze Marsal Moyenvic Salone and Chasteau are places of Salt-works and excellent Baths particularly those of a place call'd Plombieres whose warm waters are of a great vertue it 's a work of the Romans The Salt-work of Dieuse furnishes Salt to Alsatia that of Rosieres to the three Bishopricks They make no farther use of Marsal and Salone because the others supply abundantly The Switzers take their Salt in Franche Comte The Mountains are fill'd with Mines of Brass Lead Silver Alabaster and particularly of Iron The Forests are full of Game We see there Glass-houses the Sieur de Rochefort says in his Book of Voyages T. 4. p. 374. That there is sometimes danger in seeing them alone when they are in a retired place in the Woods because the Workmen may throw a man into the Furnace to make their Glass as clear and beautiful as Crystal wherefore in regard he would not that they try'd it on him he contented himself with seeing that of Venice and went on his way The Lorainers will not grant this Article The Soyl is so dispos'd to bring forth Trees that if it were not till'd it would all run up to a Forest All Lorain is forty leagues in length and thirty in breadth An. 1220. one of its Dukes Matthew the Second caus'd an evil Justice to be slea'd by reason of the Thefts he had committed and his Skin to be put on the Judicial Seat for his Son to sit on to whom he gave the Office and the terrour of being us'd after the like manner This Prince followed the Example of Cambyses King of Persia with this difference that he caus'd the Judge Chunrad to be slea'd after his death but the other caus'd Sisames to be slea'd alive The House of Lorain has yielded many Saints The Marriage of Prince Charles of Lorain PRince Charles the Fifth is married with the Queen Dowager of Poland the Sister of the Emperour Leopold the Bishop Count Kalonitz gave them the Nuptial Benediction assisted with two other Bishops in the presence of their Imperial Majesties and of all the Court in the Church of Loretta of Neustad The Marriage was consummated the sixth of February 1678. The tenth of February the King of Spain honour'd Prince Charles the Fifth above-mention'd with the Coller of the Order of the Golden Fleece GERMANY LEopold the First of the name of the House of Austria Emperour of Germany was born the 9th of June 1640. was chosen King of Hungary An. 1655. King of Bohemia An. 1656. elected King of the Romans An. 1658. and crown'd Emperour at Francfort on the Main An. 1659. where the three Ecclesiastical Electors and the Elector Palatine repair'd the others sent thither their Embassadours as also the King of France the King of Spain and others The Emperours of Germany are Catholicks The Empire bears Or an Eagle displayed sable membred langued becked and adorn'd with a Diadem Gules It has for Device Vno avulso non desicit alter The Livery of the Emperours of the House of Austria is yellow The 14th of October 1676. the Emperour Leopold some time after the death of the Empress Margaret of Austria Daughter of Philip the Fourth King of Spain and Sister of the Queen of France declar'd for his future Spouse the Princess Mary Magdalen-Therese-Eleonor of Newburg The Marriage was consummated at Passau the 14th of December following The Bishop of that Town bless'd it assisted with two Prelates he of Aicstad was of the number Their Imperial Majesties made their solemn Entries at Vienna the 20th of January 1677. The Canons of the Arsenal were carried on the Ramparts and all the Citizens put themselves in Arms by the order of the Magistrate Count Montecuâ—uâ—â— was declar'd Prince of Amalfo the 31th of March 1678. The 26th of July of the same year on the day of S. Anne the Empress was brought to bed of a Prince who is call'd the Archduke of Austria He was given at the Font of Baptism the names of Joseph James John Ignatius Antony and Eutache The Dutchess of Newburg presented to the Empress her Daugher a Bed and a Cradle of silver Vienna in Austria on the Danubins is the Capital City and the ordinary place of residence of the Emperour His Palace is August though it appears very ancient It has four Pavilions The chief Imperial Houses of Pleasure in the Country LVxembourg Favorites Neustad Kanisburg Ebersdorf and others The Church of the Capucins of Vienna is the ordinary bural place of the Emperors of the House of Austria in a Vault and many Obsequies are solemniz'd for three days in the Church of the little discalceated Augustins The Cathedral-Church is dedicated to S. Steven The Coronation of the Emperour with the signification of the three Crowns THe Emperour is crown'd ordinarily with three sorts of Corwns the first is of Iron the second of Silver the third of Gold The Crown of Iron denotes the Strength which an Emperour ought to have that of Silver signifies the Pureness that of Gold the Charity The Emperours formerly went to Milan to receive the Crown of Silver and to Rome for that of Gold at present they go no longer the Pope confirms the Election and Coronation Since Charles the Fifth no Emperour has been crown'd by the hands of his Holiness At Aix la Chappelle is kept the Crown of Iron with one of Silver and at Nuremberg many Ornaments which are made use of at the Coronation of the Emperours There are to be seen there the Dalmatica of
speak elsewhere Presburg is the Capital of that part of the Kingdom of Hungary which the Emperour of Germany possesses there since the loss of Ofen or Buda occupied by the Great Turk Komorre and Javarrin are two Bulwarks of Christendom on that side This Kingdom contain'd formerly Transylvania Valachia and Moldavia thence it is that the two Emperours of the West and East pretend each that the Princes of these three Estates receive from them the Investiture Attila King of the Huns and Hongarians is very famous in History for using Fire and Sword where-ever he came He stil'd himself Son of Mundizic of the Race of the Great Nimrod Native of Engad and through the divine bounty King of the Huns Goths Medes and Danes the Terrour of the World and the Scourge of God This Enemy of Mankind march'd with an Army of five hundred thousand men France forc'd him to retreat and kill'd him a hundred and fifty thousand men at Arms under Merovius being seconded by Ætius a Roman Patricius and with Theodoric King of the Westergoths An. 454. In Hongary they call the Horse-men Hussars and the Foot-Souldiers Heiduques Aix la Chappelle has the first place in the Diets of the Empire Charlemagne made it the head of his Empire on this side the Alpes he was there born and there died There are seen without the Town hot and cold Baths which are famed as being Medicinal Its Inhabitants pay no Toll in any place of the Empire Marshal de Crequi made himself Master of this place for his most Christian Majesty An. 1678. By order of the Magistrate the Physitians there An. 1680. Anatomiz'd of a Fountain which is in the Town they examin'd its nature and qualities and found by the taste and by the places where it passes that it comes from Iron and that the use of this Water which is cold is a specifick Remedy for curing a Dropsie arising through an inflammation of the Liver the obstructions of that part and those of the Spleen and Reins as also the Hypochondriack affects the Gravel the Jaundise the Green-sickness and other Distempers Ratisbonne is the place prefixt for the Diets which render it one of the most famous and pleasant Towns of Germany a great many Persons of Quality live there that they may see the Diets that are there held of the whole Empire and for this reason many Palaces and beautiful Edifices are there built It s Bridge over the Danubius is admirable in its Architecture in the greatness of the stones whereof it is made and in its length It s entrance and passage forth are fenc'd with two Towers whose Gates are guarded with a Corps du Guard Strangers are there examin'd strictly concerning the cause of their coming before they enter the City The Germans call this Town Regensburg it is scituated in the lower Bavaria Erfort is the first of the Landgraviat of Thuringia which appertains to the House of Saxony as also Dresden There is another Town call'd Erfort which the late Archbishop of Mayence reduc'd under his obedience some years since assisted by the French Forces and by the Sieur de Pradel Governour of S. Quentin Munic belongs to the Elector of Bavaria This Town is in the upper Bavaria it 's very pleasant and finely fortified with high Ramparts large Trenches full of flowing waters strong Walls great Bastions and many Draw-bridges Strasbourg a Free and Imperial Town in lower Alsatia is famous throughout all Germany the two Rivers Ill and Brusche water it it is half a league from the Rhine and has the title of Vniversity the Emperour gave it great Priviledges An. 1622. There is seen there a pyramidial Tower of stone hollowed open to the day which is esteem'd by many persons the highest of all Europe It is 574 foot high and some say has 630 steps by which men ascend inwardly to the top where the Inhabitants always keep a man Centry who sees above four leagues distance all round the Town It s Clock passes for the finest and most admirable of the whole World in the esteem of many persons the great number of its Wheels and Machines gives a motion to all the Constellations There are seen the periods of the Planets and their middle stations every hour the Eclipses the Days of the Month the Moveable Feasts a Child who strikes the first quarter of an hour with one stroke on a Bell a Youth the second with two a Man full grown the third with three an old Man the last with four then Death issues forth and rings the hour with his little Bell and the Son of God who passes before the Figures which represent the four Ages of Life the little Bells chime there and the Cock crows all the hours of the day and night The Cathedral-Church is adorn'd with this high Tower and this famous Clock Persons who go to Strasbourg see out of curiosity a Tree of a prodigious bigness on the top of which a Tavern is kept Travellers go to see its Bridge on the Rhine half a league from the Town which is said to be above twelve hundred paces in length it is kept strictly since three of its Arches were burnt This caution hindred not Marshal de Crequi from making himself Master of it It is of Wood and cover'd with the same matter it seems to me dangerous because it has no side-Rail and that it cannot be pass'd over on Horse-back without shaking This Town is govern'd as a Republick it is very strong and has a good Arsenal Its Canons are fam'd throughout all Germany It is all Lutheran except a Convent of Religious Women where Catholicks may hear Mass According to what Selden reports L. 1. De Statu Religionis Carolo V. Imperante Strasbourg continued without any Mass one and twenty years it was re-establisht An. 1550. The Episcopal See is transferr'd to Molsheim four leagues thence not by a Bull of some Pope but through necessity It s Bishop who is Prince of the Empire resides ordinarily in the Town of Saverne whereof he is Lord spiritual and temporal The Ceremony observ'd in the Electioa of the Bishop THe Bishop is chosen by its Chapter The time of Election being come the Chapter goes three solemn Processions the first for the Election the second for the Consecration of him that is chosen the third for the Preservation of his Person The Canons appear on these days of Ceremony with splendour in splendoribus Sanctorum Each in an orderly distance has following him in emulation of his fellow-Brothers great number of Persons of Quality Officers Domesticks and Attendants They have Train-bearers to carry the Train of their Gowns which are extraordinary long being of Crimson-Velvet and they have a Cap of the same Stuff The number of the Canons THe Chapter is compos'd of twenty four Canons Princes or Counts of the Empire There are moreover Protestant Canons who have their Revenue apart and who are not capitulary These reside at Strasbourg Four Protestant
Nismes in bigness Spire in the Country of Austrasia is the Imperial Chamber which is as the constant sitting Parliament of the Empire The Imperial and Hans-Towns THe Free or Franc-Towns to the number of about eighty four are Imperial because they owe Homage to the Empire and have in their Arms an Eagle entire or divided their Body has two Voices at the Diets of the Empire The four Capital Hans-Towns are Lubec Cologne Brunswic and Dantzic They are call'd Hans because they are divided into four Anses or Corporations and that they are particularly associated for Commerce The Maritime Towns of Germany and those which were on the Rivers trading with them made a League to oppose themselves against the Incursions of the Huns and other barbarous Nations for rendring their Commerce free and secure The chief Towns from the Gulf of Finland which is at one end of the Baltick Sea to the mouth of the Rhine entred into this League and call'd themselves Hans taking their name either from the Theutonick Sea because they were scituated on this Sea the word Ansee signifying on the Sea or from the Oath made of joyning hands for affording each other a mutual assistance the Germans calling the hand Han or else from the Assembly which is held for deliberating together call'd in the old German Tongue Hanza and in that passage of the Evangelists where it 's said that the Jews held an Assembly against the Son of God the German Bible renders the word Assembly by Hanza There were receiv'd in this Confederation but the Maritime Towns of Germany which had right of shutting and opening their Gates be it that they were subject to a Prince or that they were free some Kings have authoriz'd them Sixty six Towns are call'd Hans because they are associated and confederated with the four Capital Hans-Towns The Archives of the League are at Lubec which is the Capital of all the Hans League it has right of assembling all the others with the advice of five confederate Towns that are next it Lubec has for its confederate Towns Hambourg Rostoc Wismarc Strasbourg and Lunebourg Sâ—etin Anclan Golnous Gripswal Colberg Ptargard and Stolp Cologne Brunswic and Dantzic include the others You may see thereon the great Atlas and particularly the Books on this subject of the four Capital Hans-Towns Archbishopricks of Germany THe Archbishopricks of Germany are Mayence Treves Cologne Magdeburg Saltzbourg Breme and Prague Chief Bishopricks VIsbourg Bamberg Strasbourg Spire Liege Munster Paderborn Minden Hildesheim Onasbruc Verden Halberstat Brelau the Cardinal Landgrave of Hesse occupies this last which is in Silesia The Abbey of Fulde is famous throughout all Europe for its Antiquity and for its great Riches it is certainly affirm'd to be worth a million of Livres of Rent It is in Buchow betwixt Hesse Franconia and Thuringia Cardinal de Bade has possess'd it a long time The three chief Abbeys of the low Countries are Saint Vaast of Arras Saint Berlin at St. Omer and St. Pierre of Mont Albin at Gand. Cardinal de Boüillon has the first Germany has few Archbishops and few Bishops in comparison of France some Authors have counted thirty nine others thirty six Principalities and Lordships of the Empire and its Division THis Empire contains above three hundred Principalities or Lordships It is divided into ten Circles Austria Bavaria Soüabia Alsatia or the upper Rhine the Electorate of the lower Rhine Westphalia upper Saxony lower Saxony Franconia and Burgundy compose the ten Circles Alsatia and Burgundy belong to France These Circles compose the General Diets of the Empire where all Affairs are transacted The first Body is that of the Electors The second the other Princes be they Lay or Ecclesiastick The third is that of the Free or Franc otherwise Imperial Towns The most usual division of Germany is into Vpper and Lower in the Upper are put the Switzers Alsatia Soüabia the Dutchy of Witemberg Bavaria Franconia the Palatinate of the Rhine Bohemia Moravia Silesia Austria Stiria Carinthia Carniola and Tirol In the Lower the seventeen Provinces of the Low Countries Liege Lorain Cleves Juliers the three Electoral Archbishopricks Westphalia Hesse Saxony Thuringia Misnia Lusacia Silesia the Marquisate of Brandenburg Pomerania Mekelbourg Holsacia or the Country of Holstein The chief Rivers DAnubius the Rhine the Elbe the Oder and the Veser Danubius arises in Soüabia a great Map very exact of Samson Geographer in Ordinary to the King shews us its rise in the Principality and County of Furstemberg This River contains above sixty Rivers some say a hundred whereof there are about thirty capable of bearing Vessels It has this particular with the Po that it runs from West to East even to its mouth It is the greatest and longest of all Europe excepting the Volga according to a Geographer which flows in Muscovy Men give Danubius above seven hundred leagues in its course it waters above fifty great Towns without counting an infinite number of Castles and Burroughs passes through the Eastern Empire which the Great Tuâ—k possesses in Europe and that of the West which belongs to the Emperour of Germany After having flow'd a long while it discharges it seâ— into the Euxine Sea which is call'd the Blacâ— Sea or Mar Magiore This River and the Rhine are not far the one from the other at Constaâ—ce and Schashuysen The Rhine comes from the Alps of the Grisons it has two sources which make each a stream the one is near a Village call'd Fort-Rhen and the other is not far from Mount S. Gothard These two Sources after having flow'd separately some leagues some say ten unite themselves together This River passes at Croire and other places before it enters the Lake of Constance here losing it self for a while it issues forth again with violence and receives the River Aar which much enlarges it because it contains the Waters of great Lakes and Rivers in Switzerland The Nekar the Mosele the Main the Lippe and a great many others give a great addition to it An Author says that sixty two Rivers enter this It waters Bâle Brisac Philipsbourg Spire Wormes Mayence Cologne and other Towns It parts it self into two Channels at Thdus where is the famous Fort Schenk The left Channel is call'd the Wahal and joyns it self with the Meuse near its mouth The Rhine disgorges it self in Holland into the Ocean its course is above two hundred and fifty leagues They say that the Rhine was plac'd as a bound betwixt France and Germany but Monarchs do not tye themselves to Rules of Geographers and their Sword does not always agree with the Compass The Elb begins in Bohemia in the Mountains near Schimidberg passes at Cogingretz Toschen Dresde Meissen or Mesen Torgan Witemberg Dessau or Dessan Magdeburg Hizaker Lavembourg Harbor Hambourg and at Glucstid Stade is near the Elbe Elster Cadburgz Moldave Sale joyn with this River The Oder takes its Origine in Moravia near Dolmutz which is the Capital of it flows at
An. 1360. Bartholomew le Noir was at Venice to cast Cannon to the end that the Venetians should make use of them to recover from the Genoeses Fossa Claudia about the year 1378. according to Sabellicus Blondus and others The use was receiv'd in France Anno 1425. at the time that an English Earl call'd Thomas of Montigni besieg'd the Town of Mans. Petrarch falsely believ'd that the famous Archimedes of the Town of Syracuse was the Inventer of Cannon because he conveyed great Rocks by Mathematical Springs into the near Vessels of the Enemies and burnt them with Burning-glasses The Chineses boast that a Demon shew'd the Invention to their first King above a thousand years before the Nativity of the Son of God SPAIN CHarles the Second of the House of Austria King of Spain was born the sixth of November An. 1661. He is Catholick and even so call'd It 's a Title given by Pope Alexander the Sixth to Ferdinand the Fifth and in his person to his Successors for having destroy'd in Spain the Moors and Sarasins He bears quarterly the Arms of Castille which are Gules a Castle triple tower'd Or and those of Leon which are Argent a Lion Gules and within an Escotcheon the Arms of his principal Realms which we should call in France Provinces The Kings Livery is of a yellow colour The ordinary Devise of some Kings of Spain is this Omnes contra me ego contra omnes Since Philip the Second the Town of Madrid scituated in new Castille is the ordinary place of Residency of this Court. There is a great Bridge and a little River under it call'd Manzanarez on the occasion of which an Embassadour said to the Emperour Charles the Fifth Less Bridge or more Water The Kings Palace is call'd Pallasso del Rey otherwise Palasso Real The eldest Sons of the King of Spain are called Princes of Austria as in France Dolphins in England Princes of Wales in Portugal Princes of Algarves and in Savoy Princes of Piedmont A relation whereof I could quote the Author tells us that a man must be clad in black to speak to his Catholick Majesty I know the contrary by Spaniards who have had the honour to speak to him in grey Clothes I may believe that a man must appear before him in black Clothes when he is in Mourning and be in a decent habit The Coach-men sit on one of the horses which go at the Draught-tree since the time that the Coach-man of Count Alvarez who sate before the Coach reveal'd a Secret of his Master which he had overheard The same thing is practis'd in Germany The chief Houses of Pleasure belonging to the King and out of Madrid are IL Campo il Retiro Aranjues le Pardo the Escurial and Jarzuela The Spaniards make of this last save one the eighth Wonder of the World Philip the Second laid out twenty Millions in building it he caus'd the Escurial to be built both in memory of the Victory which he gain'd over the French An. 1557. at S. Quentin in Picardy on the Somme the tenth of August being S. Laurence's day and for having caus'd the Church of S. Laurence of S. Quentin to be beaten down whereupon he made a Promise to God to cause a finer to be built in Spain in the honour of the same Saint and a Monastery where the Monks of S. Hierome are magnificently seated The King has a Seat in the Refectuary and a great Palace without the Convent After the Library of the Vatican which is the first of the World that of these Monks has been greatly valued There is seen at il Campo a great Park for the divertisement of Hunting great Ponds and Gardens At il Retiro otherwise call'd Buen Retiro there is seen Philip the Fourth on a Horse of cast Copper The King passes there the greatest heats of the Summer by reason of its Waters and fine Grotto's of different kinds The fine Walks are there as green in the Summer as in the Spring-time There is a strange Figure there standing in the midst of a great Cistern casting forth water from all the parts of its body which is made use of for watering in a moment a Garden of the Palace full of all sorts of Flowers There is also seen there Gardens full of Fruit-trees At il Pardo are the Pictures of all the Kings of Spain The ancient Palace of one of the Kings of the Moors call'd Halambra is remarkable for being flankt with thirty Towers it is on one of the little Hills of the Town of Grenada The chief places of Devotion IN Madrid the Church of our Lady Almudena and that of Athoca are very famous Our Lady of Athoca call'd according to the Language of the Country Nostra Senora d' Athoca is at Madrid as the Church of our Lady at Paris for Piety and the concourse of People It 's there where the Te Deum is sung Saint James of Compostella in Galicia is a very famous place of Pilgrimage the French Pilgrims that go thither pass over the Trembling Bridge It is thought that this Bridge is so call'd by reason of the flowing of the Sea which coming to press against it makes it tremble It 's a roguish Bridge of wood a little River passes under it The Apostle S. James the Greater is the Patron of all Spain His Relicks are under the great Altar of the Metropolitan Church of Compostella his Figure representing half his body is over it his Pilgrims Staff is on the side of the Quire and his Head at Toulouse in the Church of S. Sernin It 's there where the Pilgrims begin their Pilgrimage S. James has been seen to fight for the Spaniards against the Sarasins holding in his hand a white Standart with a red Cross in it in the time of King Ramires who being assisted with his Apostle charg'd so briskly the Enemies that he cut in pieces 60000 on the place Charlemagne King of France was at Compostella to honour St. James and caus'd his Church to be built Since the Kings of Spain have been Catholicks they have always honour'd him I have read a Relation of divers Voyages in which the Author says that St. James suffered Martyrdom at Compostella It 's a roguish Memoire which has been given him I remit him to the Books of the Acts of the Apostles to the Ecclesiastical History and to the holy Martyrology and he will find that it was at Hierusalem that Herod caus'd him to be beheaded This Apostle having continued some time in Spain return'd to Judaea his Disciples after his death carried him from the Port of Joppe presently to Fa where they embarkt for Spain and after having sail'd all along the Mediterranean Sea and pass'd the Straight of Gibralter they took on the Ocean the course of Galicia where they landed and disembarkt the body of the Saint in the Town of Irisflavia where he continued hidden and unknown till it was miraculously discover'd by a Star which appear'd there
and Academy with many great Houses for the reception of Coaches lying in the street Mazarin and others The Library was judged very curious by the Kings of England and Denmark these two Princes saw it in the Palace Mazarin whence it was transported into the Colledge His Majesty of Denmark caused his to be built after the model of that it is long wide and very high and admits a great deal of light and has the prospect of the Louvre and the Seine it will be open twice a week to all persons of Learning on such days as shall be thought fit as that of the Abbey of St. Victor which is publick on Mundays Wednesdays and Saturdays and which is famous The Library Mazarin contains 30000 Volumes there are in it the chief Books of the Protestants Cardinal Mazarin made this pious and grand Foundation for many reasons amongst others for rendring the Inhabitants of the Conquered Countries before-mentioned as well French in their Heart as by Nation Divine Providence having prescribed â—â—mits to the life of all men the Founder of this Colledge dyed at Vincennes the ninth of March 1661 in the fifty one year of his age His Heart reposes in the Church of the Theatins his Body will be transferred from the Church of Vincennes into the Church of the said Colledge when Mass comes to be celebrated in it and it will be placed in a magnificent Mausoloeum there to wait the general Resurrection In the Month of May of the year 1677 on the Porch of the Church of Colledge Mazarin were placed on the Pedestals of the Body of it advanced from the front over square Pillars Pilasters the four Evangelists St. Matthew St. Mark St. Luke and St. John with their Attributes On the right hand backward on the like Pedestals the four Doctors of the Greek Church according to their place St. Basil St. Athanasius St. John Chrysostome and St. Gregory of Nazianze and on the left hand the four Doctors of the Latin Church St. Gregory the Great St. Ambrose St. Austin and St. Hierome According to the Order of time in which they lived we range the Greeks thus St. Athanasius St. Basil St. Gregory of Nazianze and St. John Chrysostom in the Latine Church St. Ambrose St. Hierome St. Austin and St. Gregory In placing the figures they have gone according to dignity They say that the Effigies of Loüis the Great will be placed before this Colledge in a great Place which will be called Dukal This Colledge is incorporated to the University with all its rights and priviledges The Sieurs Foucaut le Foüyn and Mariage have taken much pains for perfecting this Colledge Some persons of Quality having assured me of the satisfaction they received in the relation I made them of the House of President Perrot near the Colledge I shall set down the particularities that I observed in it An. 1677. The House of President Perrot THis House which faces the Louvre has five Balconies on the Seine besides its Scituation uniformity neatness and conveniency it 's esteemed curious for its Ancient Pieces and for large Pictures made by Apelles's They are expos'd in the great room of Paintings which has windows on both sides We see there Anthony de Bourbon King of Nâ—varre Henry the Fourth Loüis the Thirteenth vested with the Royal Mantle and with the great Collar of the Order and Loüis the Fourteenth clad like a Roman and M. the Dolphin betwixt the late King and the present in a round or oval over the door of the entrance and Philip of France Duke of Orleans standing by Loüis de Bourbon Prince of Condé with his Father and his Grandfather and the Duke d'Enguien with his Children the Queens and Princesses are by the sides of their Spouses In the midst of this Gallery is plac'd a large sheet of Velam in Miniature set in a frame which contains the Genealogy of the Bourbons from St. Loüis to the year 1679 and on the back part of the Velam are represented the Combats Rencounters Sieges Battels and Victories gain'd by the Prince of Condé Loüis de Bourbon Amongst some Pictures that adorn the Chappel that which is against the Altar is accomplisht and to express the thing better it 's a consummated piece of work or a Master-piece representing the seven Sacraments of the Church the Archduke Leopold admiring this Piece would have given a thousand Pistols for it if the Master would have sold it him It was permitted his Highness to cause a Copy to be taken of it Neer the Chappel-door we see the present Prince of Condé mounted on a War-horse represented to the life In some Chambers we find many other Pictures that of 〈◊〉 Nativity of the Son of God that of Lot having drank to excess before his two Daughters to which nothing can be added The rowling Desk composed of divers Tables which is in the Library is of a very rare structure and convenient for those that compose some laborious Piece all the edges of it are gilded and the Boards or Planks hold a great many Books in folio When you are near it without changing place with one of your fingers you make the Desk turn and bring before your eyes the Books that lead to your designe but you must first place them Atabalipa one of the Incas of Peru would not have esteemed it much for his use for he threw on the ground a very excellent Book presented to him alleadging for a reason that it spoke not a word to him though they made him believe it would teach him a great many things he could not make it speak I believe he would have soon imitated a King of Congo to whom Emanuel King of Portugal having once sent Lawyers with good Law-books he sent back the Doctors and caused the Books to be burnt thinking they would serve but to introduce Cavilling and put Confusion in the Understandings of his Subjects whereas he said they had need but of Reason and a good common Sence which is related in a History of Portugal This Prince added that he should still continue a Friend to him that had sent them him taking the good will for the deed In the Garden of the same House I saw a tryal made of a great Burning-glass in the presence of M. the Prince which burnt a great Block set opposite to the Sun and which wonderfully magnifies and multiplies Objects The two Gladiators and other Figures of massie cast Copper which are Ornaments of the Garden are Pieces artificially made Each Gladiator holds his Buckler with one hand and his Sword with the other whose postures are much esteem'd The Venus is highly priz'd as also another Figure drawing a Thorn out of its foot The great Iron Arbour is very beautiful and very high rais'd under which persons breath the cool Air and fragrant Smells during the Summer-heats On the side of it are the Grotto's and Waters The Dido striking a Dagger into her breast is represented to the
life the Vrns are considerable The Master of this House considering that good ought to be communicative has for some years past made his Garden common to the Publick for walking and has sometime given to some great Lords and others the satisfaction of seeing the Cormorant-fishing which is a Royal Divertisement I think it not strange that the Emperour and other crown'd heads divert themselves with it In this Capital City of the Kingdom there are many Houses whereof Wonders may be said which I pass by because to run them over it would take up a Volume I shall onely adde that persons curious in wonderful and transcendent things should see the Rooms of Anticks of the Louvre and the Tuilleries the King and Queens Closets their Apartments and Furniture the Kings Library which contains above 40000 Volumes an infinite number of Manuscripts in Hebrew Arabick Greek Latin and many of History and Policy the remarkable Medals the curious Shells a famous Burning-glass known throughout all the Earth many Books of Migniature and other Curiosities the two Galleries oâ— Palace Mazarin that of the Palace of Luxembourg containing in great and various Pictures the Adventures of Queen Mary de Medicis we see there her Birth her Life and her Death The Palace Royal belonging to Monsieur merits to be visited as also the Royol Academy of Painting and Carvings the Galeries of M. le Prince and others Houses of Pleasure about Paris THe fair and delightful houses next the King 's are these Saint Cloud and Viliers Cotteret which belong to Monsieur Châ—â—tilly to M. le Prince there is seen even at thâ— day in his Menagery a Pelican 150 years old having a bill of Ivory The Isle Adam belongs to M. the Prince of Conti Reinci to the Princess Palatine Annet to the Duke of Vandôme the Palace of Ecoüan to the Dutchess of Angouleme Gros-bois to the Marquess of Pienee Ruel to the Duke de Richlieu Verneuil to the Duke of this name Liancour to the Prince of Marcillac Villeroy to the Duke of this name Chaville to M. the Chancellour le Tellier Sceaux to M. Colbert la Cheurette to M. de la Vrilliere Berni to the Marquess de Lionne Chilly to the Marquess d'Effiat Conflans Les-Charenton to M de Harlay Archbishop of Paris Maisons Vaux Saint Mandé Meudon are also places very agreeable Chassan is another House of Pleasure joyning to Harcueil it belongs to the Abbot of S. Germain des Prez Cardinal Francis de Tournon first Commendatory Abbot of the Abbey of the said S. Germain caused it to be put in order we see there his Arms which are Seme of Flower-de-luces Mademoiselle de Montpensier increases the number of delightful Houses by that which she purchased of late years at Choisy This Princess causes a beautiful Palace to be there built The House of the Dean of Pontoise seven leagues from Paris has one of the fairest Prospects and Terrasses of the Country the Terras is entirely on Rocks Messire Steven de Burtio de la Tour Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbone and formerly Priour and Prosessour of the said House Knight of the Order of the King under the Title and List of Saint Michael Count of the holy Apostolical Palace and Preacher is Dean When the general Assembly of the Clergy is held at Pontoise the President lodges at his house We see at the entry of this Town as we come from Paris a famous Abbey of Religious Ladyes called de Maubuisson I omit to name many other Ornaments because it would be too tedious to number them Houses and Places of Devotion neer Paris THe pious places about Paris that are most frequented are Mount-Valerian the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis Nostre Dame des Anges otherwise des Bois against the Hermitage of Coubron Nanterre in memory of St. Genevieve Nostre Dame des Vertues S. Prix Nostre Dame in the Forrest and Hermitage of Senar Saint Roch is very famous at Pont-carré they come thither the day of its Festival from all parts Saint Spire is visited for the Falling Sickness We must say something here of Mount-Valerian If Mount-Valerian vulgarly called le Tertre be not rich it is nevertheless frequented We see there represented to the life the whole History of the Death and Passion of Jesus Christ Round about the top of the Mountain there are seven Chappels or Oratories representing the seven Stations and on the top Calvary on which Jesus Christ is beheld crucified on a tall Cross betwixt two Thieves that the representation of the Order of the Crucisixion should be more lively and plain and also that after the faithful have plung'd themselves by all these exteriour and sensible Objects in the meditation of the Death of Jesus Christ they may die to the World and then rise again with him in a newness of a spiritual life They preach there every Sunday and Festival day and every first Friday of each month there being a great concourse of people that comes from all parts On the day and Feast of the place which is that of the Exaltation of the holy Cross the 14th of September there have been sometimes 30 or 40000 persons either on the Mountain or in the Way The fraternity of the Penitents of Paris goes thither in a Procession yearly some days of the year On Good-friday three different Preachers preach there the Passion successively The Queen who is a Pattern of Piety and Devotion visits this holy place from time to time The Church is serv'd by Priests who live in a Society Messire Michel de Bougi Abbot of St. Vrbain a person of Birth and Merit is Purveyor and the Abbot Hardy Doctor of Sorbone is Superiour The Office of Purveyor is for perpetuity and that of Superiour triennial Under Anne of Austria Queen of France there was a great Law-suit for the possession of this place betwixt the Secular Priests and the Dominicans This business gave much trouble to the Abbot de Bougi and to Master Lafont in his life-time Principal of the Colledge of Narbone The Congregation of the Priests of Calvary on Mount-Valerian was establisht An. 1633. by Letters-Patents of Louis the Thirteenth who sent for a Priest expresly for this effect a man of a holy life called Charpenter who had already instituted it on the Mountain of Betharan in Bearn which resembles Mount-Valerian The Hermites have been in possession of Mount-Valerian for these 800 years according to an humble Remonstrance made An. 1622. to Cardinal des Retz by the Priests of Calvary There was seen there for some time a recluded Hermite The Treasure which is in the Church of the Abbey of St. Denis and the Tombs of the Kings of France deserve that we should say something of them The Treasury of St. Denis THe Church of the Abbey of St. Denis is extreamly visited both by reason of its Patron and for its Treasure and for being the Burial-place of the Kings of France King Dagobert the First