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A51200	The characters or pourtraicts of the present court of France wherein is described the king, the princes, the generals and the principal ministers of state &c. / written originally in French ; made English by J.B., Gent.; Divers portraits. English	Montpensier, Anne-Marie-Louise d'Orléans, duchesse de, 1627-1693.; Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.	1668 (1668)	Wing M2507; ESTC R18747	32,064	144

make us repeat that passage in Scripture Verily I say unto you That Solomon in all his glory was never equal to this Triumphant Monarch The Design or Model of the Louvre is to make four spacious Courts where six thousand men may be drawn up in Battalia and besides the regularity of the Buildings and their ingenious Architecture which is supposed shall surpass all that the height of Art or Greatness hath yet produced in the rest of the World They are contriving Apartments convenient and sufficient to lodge the whole Royal Family besides all the Principal Officers of the Crown Thus the Grandeur and Magnificence of the Court will be more conspicuous in such an Assemblage then now as it is divided In the mean while till that Work be compleated I shall trace out a slight draught of it for the benefit of such as desire the knowledge of it This numerous and pompous Train belonging to his Majesty may be comprehended under these three Heads The multiplicity of the Princes or such as the necessary Offices require or those whom for his Majesties pleasure and for the Ornament of the Court are constantly attending Those that are most fixed like some brighter Stars still following the Sun are the Queen the Princes of the Blood and some other forraign Princes who prefer the Honour of being under this Empire above the Command of other Dominions or the subjection of other Monarchs and so highly do our Princes value their condition though but Subjects in this Court that those of the Blood Royal never did nor ever will give precedency to any other Subject Prince on Earth nor to any of his Ambassadours only to a Soveraign when present We have a Cloud of Examples and one very fresh between Monsieur and the Duke of Savoy to whom his Royal Highness would not give the right hand even when he came to his own Lodgings which absolutely hindred the interview betwixt those two Princes It is true that Monsieur yielded to an Equality with the Prince of Denmark but it was in respect of the infallible pretences he hath to be king of his Native Country which is reckoned a Soveraignty But this must be noted that he would not however yield to any more then an Equality and for this cause they never came together This preeminence of the Princes of the Blood shines brighter now after the long contest betwixt the Princes of the House of Lorraine and ours which but a few days since was setled after this manner During the former Reigns of Henry the II Charles the IX and Henry the III the House of Guise had acquired so much credit in the Court of France that besides that they were become the absolute Masters of all Affairs under the Regency of Catharine of Medices they had flatter'd themselves with some pretensions to the Crown a certain Canon of Verdun published in a Printed Book of his that they were descended from Charles of Lorrain who was deprived by the Estates of the right of Succession to the Crown of France and Hugh Capett was substituted in his stead And though this Genealogy was false as divers Authors have demonstrated in clearing out their descent from the Counts of Alsatia Nevertheless the Guises who were very potent in the Kingdom made use of this advantage for the necessity of affairs and the fear of their Authority having obliged Henry the III. to condescend that the Princes of the Blood should yield the right hand to the Chief of the house of Lorrain and that the younger Sons of the House of Lorrain should in the same manner give the upper hand to the Princes of the Blood of France Our Princes have never observed this order but opposed it very vigorously till such time as the King by full Power and Authority and knowing the Justice of their Cause hath ordained That ever hereafter all the Lorrain Princes and even the Head of that Family should give place to the Princes of the Blood and to this purpose he sent an Order by Monsieur Tellier to Monsieur de Guise who is here the Chief or Head of that Family to go and give a visit to the Prince and to give place to him upon all occasions yea even in his own House and to observe the very same towards all the rest of the Princes of the Blood Which order was immediately executed by Monsieur de Guise and afterwards by all the rest of that Family There was another contest of Precedency between Strangers or Forraign Princes and the Dukes and Pairs These pretended a Right as well as the Princes of the Blood to go before forraign Princes especially at great Solemnities where they pretend to represent Soveraign Persons by vertue of their Dignities which are undoubtedly the first and highest in the Kingdom 'T is true they have heretofore been Soveraigns and yet always Subjects or Vassals to the King being obliged to render homage for what they held of the Crown Their rise is attributed to Hugh Capett for that Prince to make himself King agreed to bestow his Dutchies and Pairies to those great Lords who were most able to oppose him in his advancement to the Throne This made them so potent that having once declared to the Duke of Aquitaine that he could not approve of his intents of making War upon the Duke of Anjou and the Duke little regarding his resentment the King bidding some body ask him Who it was had made him Duke of Aquitain He replied with much haughtiness Those that made him King And although they are now perfectly submitted to Regal Authority yet they are careful of preserving the remainders of their Grandeur towards forraign Princes whereupon many of them would not appear at the entrance of the King and Queen into Paris after their Marriage because the Count de Soissons of the House of Savoy would not yield them the precedency and rank they claim in all Royal Ceremonies by vertue of their Dignities But what greatness soever these Nobles of France do attribute to themselves yet there are others that do contend with them for precedency and go already in equal rank having no less Authority in the Kingdom then they Our Kings to maintain an equal poise and temperament in the State have always equally considered Valour and Justice and for this respect have made Gentlemen of the Robe as well as of the Sword having allowed them the same priviledges advantages and immunities without any distinction it being indubitable that a State consists equally of Power and Justice the Sword-men however have still attributed something of preeminence to themselves but those of the long Robe have wisely taken the Superiority on their parts of which they do not vaunt though in effect they dispose absolutely of the Estates Lives and Honour of the other by an Authority of the Crown wherewith they shelter themselves sitting upon the Royal Lillies as Judges of the greatest Peers and Princes of the Blood who are bound to

ill will of any to do his Master service relying wholly upon the justice and power of a Monarch able to protect him against all his adversaries It is reported that he hath assured his Majestie that in three years time he will redeem and clear all his Demesnes which when accomplished will make him the richest Potentate of Christendom which he is indeed already in the reputation of all stranger-Nations THE Character or Pourtraict OF Monsieur Tellier HE is descended of a Family of the Long Robe and raised himself to the height he is now at as much by his own diligence and conduct as by the favour of the Cardinal Richelieu who made him chief Master of Requests He is of a friendly discreet and prudent temper and one that understands Military affairs better then any man in the Kingdom I mean as to the manner how to keep up and maintain an Army what the charge will amount to according to the numbers raised and the like which knowledge he hath acquired by a very long experience He hath maintained himself unblameable in his Office and was but feignedly disgraced or set aside during the Intestine Troubles For the Prince complaining that the Cardinal though banished still ruled at Court by means of his Creatures amongst whom Monsieur Tellier Monsieur de Lionne were counted the principal the Queen to take away all cause of jealousie caused them to be sent out of Paris and promised to admit no more of them to her Council which Order within a month was again reversed and the policie of this Court-turn apparent He is a person nothing tainted with the vanities of the times having no ambitious thoughts but performing his duty meerly out of a principle of honour and honesty not minding either concurrences nor enmities not aiming at higher preferments or greater profits being already in a condition indeed so good in these respects that there is little left him to wish for He hath a son the Marquis de Louvais very much in favour with the King to whom his Majestie has granted the reversion of his Fathers Office of Secretary of State for Military affairs THE Character or Pourtraict Of Monsieur de Lionne HE is of a Noble Family and was formerly chief Secretary to the Queen-mother and when she was Regent he was employed in State-affairs and the Cardinal a while before his death recommended him to his Majestie in particular as a man fit for the employments he holds He is one of the most prudent men in Europe one that hath the most flegme and reservedness of temper as the Italians themselves confessed when he was amongst them they endeavoured by all the ways imaginable to make him discover himself but with all their subtilty they could not make themselves Masters of the least of his secrets The Great Duke and the whole House of Medices treated him to that very end and laid all the plots snares they could but all their diligence and cunning could not entice him to utter one sillable but what was meerly indifferent He went since joynt Ambassadour with the Marshal de Gramont into Germany at the Election of the Emperour and we may truly say that the two subtillest and wisest Politicians of France did then share together in that Illustrious Negotiation He is a person of much honesty and conscience and one that will not make use of any one that is not good and vertuous though it were his misfortune a while since to have a person in his Family who was a Traytor both to him the King and the State but this was a fellow taken in by his other servants not of his chusing and having found that his Secrets were divulged to Forraign Ambassadours by his infidelity he caused him to be chastised according to his deserts having made him confess that he had never spoken so much as one word to him He is a lover of Vertue and Arts is milde affable of a good presence and exactly faithful in the Kings concerns and though he be Secretary of State for all Forraign affairs which he understands incomparably well yet in the Cardinals Will he is preferred before all others to inform the King of all the concerns of Lorraine and whatever is to be transacted with the Duke Charles who is one of the subtillest and wary Princes of this Age of whom the Duke said that he was a fit man to be treated with but it must be onely for three days Which words he taking hold of did indeed finish his Negotiation within that space of time as is apparent by the Treaty mutually Signed to by each of them THE Character or Pourtraict OF Monsieur Foucquet HE is the son of a Citizen and pretends the original of his Family is Noble He rose to his Fortune by his Brother the Abbot Foucquet's means who was much in favor with Cardinal Mazarine He borrowed a sum of money to buy the Office of Attorney-General and in that quality did the Cardinal many good Offices in the Parliament and the Government of Paris He was very exact in prosecuting any that wrote against that Minister Yet all these Services could not exempt him from being suspected which obliged him to draw up that Project found amongst his rifled Papers to defend himself in case he were attaqu'd The Cardinals favour procured him the employment of Superintendant which he managed alone after the decease of Monsieur Servien who during a time shared it with him He hath a vast and lofty spirit and was the profusest and most magnificent man in the Kingdom His ambitious minde made him chuse this Motto for his Devise Quo non ascendam Whither shall I not climb And it is believed his thoughts aspired at being Chief Minister but the King by no means enduring to have any Subject raise himself to that Authority in his Reign reserving that power most justly for himself caused him to be arrested some years since in his journey to Brittany and sent him to Vincennes and from thence to the Bastille He was liberal with profusion being accused of having squandred away infinite sums of money upon his Pleasures and Mistresses He is likewise accused of allowing several large Pensions to the Grandees at Court to be his creatures it being his Opinion and Maxime that no mans Faith could be of proof against Fifty thousand Crowns His Buildings do also shew his excessive Prodigality together with the Furniture Conches Attendance Rarities and unparallel'd Banquets as for example the Collation he gave his Majestie at Veau de Vicomte where he expended Fourty thousand Crowns by all computation He bestowed great Largesses likewise upon the Jesuites viz. a Library a Thousand livres of annual Rent to maintain it and Fourscore thousand livres for a Building within their Colledge THE Character or Pourtraict Of The First President of PARLIAMENT MOnsieur de la Mignon issued from a Family of the Long Robe enjoys this considerable Office which is onely attained unto by