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A new description of Paris containing a particular account of all the churches, palaces, monasteries ... with all other remarkable matters in that great and famous city / translated out of French.; Nouvelle description de la ville de Paris. English
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Brice, Germain, 1652-1727.
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did heretofore bear the title of S. Clement But the Body of S. Marcel Bishop of Paris being found here it took his name which it hath kept ever since The famous Peter Lombard surnamed the Master of the Sentences is here interred And this is his Epitaph Hic jacet Magister Petrus Lombardus Parisiensis Episcopus qui composuit Librum Sententiarum Glossas Psalmorum Epistolarum cujus obitus lies est 13. Cal. Augusti Anno 1164. Here lies Master Peter Lombard Bishop of Paris who composed the Book of Sentences Glosses upon the Psalms and Epistles the day of his death is the 13 th of the Calends of August In the year 1164. There are also in this Fauxbourg the Cordelier Nuns Whose Convent was first built at Troyes by Thibaut VII Earl of Champagne and of Brie but they were removed to Paris soon after because of the inconveniency of the place where they were first founded Margaret de Provence Wife to St. Lewis caused the Church to be begun as we now see it and Blanch her Daughter Widow of the King of Castile became a Nun there and gave a considerable Augmentation to the Estate of this House She built the Cloister where are yet remaining her Arms in several places These Nuns observe the Rule of St. Francis somewhat nearer than the Cordelier Friers of the great Convent in Paris there is nothing of singular note in their Church no more than in that of St. Medard the Parish-Church of this Quarter where there hapned in the last Age a furious Tumult raised by the Calvinists who came flocking with Arms in hand to Massacre the Catholicks being then at Vespers the cause pretended was that the noise of the Bells of this Church did disturb them in hearing their Sermon which at that time was in a house close by But they were punished for their Rashness for the Citizens taking Arms killed all those that fell in their power This was the first occasion of that hatred which the Parisians bear to those of the pretended Reformed Religion and the Historians observe that from that time the Calvinists threw off their Mask and went arm'd in the Streets of Paris but the Catholicks not being able to endure this it was the occasion of many Disorders which hapned afterwards Monsieur Patru from whom we have a Volume of Pleadings extremely fine is interred in this Church Monsieur d'Ablencour had so great an esteem for his Judgment that on his death-bed he recommended his Works to his Correction In this Quarter near the little Church of S. Hippolytus is an ancient house built in the time of St. Lewis which is not far from the River des Gobelins where that good King would sometimes use to pass his hours of Solitude in Prayer It is said that under Charles VI. there happened here a very unhappy accident which was partly the cause of the distraction with which that Prince was afflicted the greatest part of his Reign The Story is thus reported The Parisians who always made it their glory passionately to love their King being desirous to entertain Charles VI. with a Ball in this house upon his return from a great Victory which he had gained over the Revolted Flemings The King was at this Entertainment with many Lords disguised like Salvages and apparelled in Linnen pitcht over and covered with Flax like hair and so close fitted to the Body that it seemed to be the natural skin as he was dancing with the young Lords one of the Company approaching too near a Flambeau held by a Prince who was desirous to discover the King from the rest it hapned that the Flame caught the Flax and burnt furiously and they being all fastened to one another the King could find no security but by casting himself all covered with Flames as he was into the Arms of the Dutchess of Berry who very happily being then present extinguished the Flame by covering him all over with her great Gown The other Masquers were all either stifled or roasted alive and died within two days after the King and Mantoüillet only escaping which last cast himself headlong into a Tub of Water which he hapned to light of not far from the place After this sad accident Charles began to fall extreme Morose and Melancholy and the Idea of so great a peril prepared his brain for that madness which seized upon him near the Town of Mans in such manner as is recorded by Monsieur de Mezeray And this is all that is to be seen in this Fauxbourg The Gates by which you go into the Town are two that of St. Victor near the Abby of that name of which Abby we have already spoken This Gate was lately repaired but not with so great expence as the others There is only represented in Basse taille over the Arch a great Ship of War which are the Town Arms with this Inscription beneath it QUAE NON MARIA What Seas does she not Sail through The other Gate is that of St. Marcel behind St. Geneviéue du Mont. Near this on the Fosse between the two Gates lives Monsieur de Troyes whose Pictures you ought not to sail of seeing He was sent by the King into Bavaria to take the Picture of Madame the Dauphiness Few Painters have been more successful than he after the Life This hath attained him the Practice of most Persons of Quality who cause themselves to be drawn by his hand We shall say nothing of the Convent of English Nuns nor of the House of the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine which are also upon the same Fosse there being nothing curious about them to remark unless it be one of the best Prospects that we can see by reason of the high situation of the Place where these two houses stand The end of the first Part. A New DESCRIPTION OF THE Most Remarkable Things IN PARIS PART II. The Vniversity Quarter THIS Quarter is one of the antientest and best Peopled of all Paris It takes up a very great space of Ground almost the fourth part of the Town Philip Augustus at such time as he went to Palestine with Richard King of England against the Sarrazins gave order that during his Journey which lasted a whole Year this Quarter should be inclosed with Walls some Remains of which one may perceive at this Day The University of Paris is so antient that as some hold Charlemagne was its Founder This opinion is built upon certain old Titles which are preserved with great care Notwithstanding there are many Learned Men who are of a contrary opinion among others Monsieur Joli Grand Chanter of Nostre-Dame who has clearly proved his Sentiments in his Little Tract of the Episcopal Schools But if it be doubtful whether it were founded by that Great Emperor it is however most certain that it began to appear in a very little time after his Reign which was in France a Glorious one for Learning and Learned Men to whom this great Prince
without his care in thus shewing them to the light to these Volumes he hath added learned Prefaces which are a great help to the Curious But after the incomparable Book which Father Dom Jean Mabillon has publisht two Years ago nothing further can be wisht for it is Entituled De Re Diplomatica in Folio with a great number of Figures of antient Charters which this Learned Author has deciâ—er'd after the happiest way that can be and thereupon he hath made most learned Remarques to teach us how to know if they be Counterfeits which will appear an easie thing to him who has read this Book Those who have perused it can never sufficiently admire the Pains and Patience of the Author in making such Learned Discoveries as are in it and there is hardly any Work in which there appears more solid Judgment than in this which is the cause that of the small number of Authors which we can reckon among the Learned he is one of those who is most esteem'd and hath the greatest Reputation We have also from his hand several Volumes of Analects or Fragments in Octavo which he continues daily with much care There are also in this Society many other Learned Men who are continually employed upon divers subjects from whose hands we shall have in a little time the Works of St. Ambrose One may say further to their Commendation that there is not any Religious House where Idleness is more strictly avoided than in this We must know that this Abby hath been in former times often Ruin'd at the Incursions of Foreigners it then standing out of the Town The Normans and the Danes have Pillaged and Burnt it three or four times and it hath stood out some Sieges like a Fortified Town It was at that time enclosed about with deep Ditches and strong Walls which from one space to another were defended with round Towers most of which of later time have been pulled down to build the Houses round about it and there remain but two which are at the Gate on that side next the Rile St. Benoist In regard it is difficult to observe the course of the Streets in St. Germains Quarter as we have done in other parts of the Town because things are not here in a Row as elsewhere We shall therefore speak of the observable places severally endeavouring however as near as we can to describe them to the Curious in the 〈◊〉 course and thereby to spare their pains as 〈◊〉 as may be The Palace of ORLEANS OTherwise call'd The Palace of Luxembourg because it stands in the same place where formerly stood a Hôtel of that name Of all the Houses in Paris and even in the whole Kingdom there is none more regular better design'd for Architecture or more magnificent than this Palace Mary de Medicis Widow of Henry IV. caused it to be built and for that purpose made use of the ablest Artist of her time named Jacques de Brosse the same person who designed the Portal of St. Gervais of which I have already spoken That great Queen spared no Costs to leave Posterity a Monument of her magnificence All Foreign Travellers do agree that in all Italy there is nothing to be seen where Art hath been observed with more exactness and where more Grandeur and Majesty appears than in this building It is composed of a great Square Court at the further end of which is the main Body of the Building accompanied at the ends with four Pavillions and in the middle the Avant-corps which makes a fifth set off with Pillars On each side of the foresaid Court are two long Galleries a little lower than the rest of the Building each supported with 9 Arches under which one may walk dry round about the Court The Front of all this Palace is after the manner of an open Gallery with a kind of Dome in the middle supported with Pillars under which is the great Door butting upon the Ruë de Tournon at the upper part of which Street this Palace is situated which adds much to the beauty of its Avenuâ— At each end of the Galleries and also of the two Tarrasses which run along the fore-part of the Court are two other great Pavillions which stand in the same Line with the Face of the Building The Architecture of this Palace consists of Pilasters except about the great Portal and on the Garden side before a little Dome which serves for a Chapel where are some Pillars which stand off from the Work The Orders observed in this Work are the Tuscan and the Dorick with an Attique above and on the Garden side over the Tuscan and Dorick is an Ionick which makes a third Order compleat with Balustrades round about the top as also Frontons and Faces on which are great Statues in cumbent postures supporting Crowns This excellent Architecture is still more beautiful by reason of the Bossage that runs all over the Work no other Ornaments being necessary All that you see here is according to the plain and true Rules of Art which is the cause that all those who are any thing knowing in Architecture take more delight in considering this Palace and observe more beauties in it than those who regard only the things without knowing the true value This Palace is at present inhabited by two illustrious Princesses Daughters of the late Duke of Orleans only Brother of Lewis the XIII On the left hand as you come in are the Apartments of Mademoisell d'Orleans and on the right those of Madam the Dutchess of Guise her Sister In the first mentioned are several excellent Plasons and very rich Furniture in the last among other things you ought to see the Gallery painted by the Famous Rubens of Antwerp who was invited from Flanders on purpose to paint it These Paintings are great Pictures on the Pannels between the Divisions in which are represented the principal actions of Henry the IV his Life more especially those in which Mary of Medicis had any concern No Man can desire to see any thing more exactly designed or better perform'd but that which is most to be admired is the excellent Colouring which this famous Master used in his Works in which thing he surpast all others Often do the Young Painters come and study in this Gallery and in regard it is all throughout of his manner they may easily here learn the Ideas of Excellent Peinture The Garden was formerly very beautiful and full of little Groves and cover'd Walks but several hard Winters having killed many of the Trees it hath been thought necessary to cut up the rest to make room for others which they have already begun to plant at the end of the great Walk before the Parterre they designed to make a Fountain so much of it as is already made is of a very good kind of Architecture It is a kind of Niche adorn'd in the fore-part with four great Tuscan Pillars charg'd with Congelations on which are Sea-Gods holding