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A27526	The present state of France containing a general description of that kingdom corrected and purged from the many gross mistakes in the French copy, enriched with additional observations and remarks of the new compiler, and digested into a method conformable to that of the state of England / by R.W. ...	Wolley, Richard, fl. 1667-1694.; Besongne, Nicolas, d. 1697.	1687 (1687)	Wing B2052A; ESTC R1280	281,972	540

THE Present State OF FRANCE Containing A General Description OF THAT KINGDOM Corrected and purged from the many Gross Mistakes in the French Copy enriched with Additional Observations and Remarks of the New Compiler and digested into a Method Conformable to that of The State of ENGLAND By R. W. M. A. LONDON Printed for Gilbert Cownly at the Popes-Head in the Lower-Walk of the New-Exchange in the Strand 1687. TO THE Right Honourable RICHARD Lord Vicount Preston IN THE Kingdom of SCOTLAND And One of his Majesties Most Honourable Privy-Council MY LORD THis being my first Essay in Print I thought I could not but in duty present it to your Lordship as being a Description of that Renowned Court and Kingdom wherein your Lordship as upon a Most Illustrious Theater Signaliz'd your Self with so much Reputation to your Self and Country and Mutual Satisfaction to those great Princes between whom you were so successful an Instrument of that good Correspondence that has not a little Contributed to the Happiness of Both Monarchies the most Flourishing at present of Europe And indeed France my Lord being the Place too wherein I was honoured and made happy by so many of your Lordship's Favours what more Congruous Mark could I give you of the Lasting and deeply Impressed Sense I have of them than the Present I humbly make you of France it Self or at least of this small Prospect of so vast a Monarchy A Present which though perhaps inconsiderable on the account of the Imperfections it may have contracted from it's Author will I hope be grateful in respect of its noble Subject and by your accustomed Goodness be accepted as a Cordial Testimony of the real Gratitude and Profound Respect I have and shall ever preserve for your Honour of whom I am My Lord The most humble and most devoted Servant R. Wolley THE PREFACE TO THE READER Courteous Reader YOV have in this Treatise the Portraicture of a great and Flourishing Monarchy viz. The Present State of France as it now is under the Government of the Potent and Victorious Prince Lewis the Fourteenth Sirnamed the Great It is very different from that which formerly appeared under the same Title and though a great deal of the matter be taken out of the latest and best Edition of the French Author on that subject yet it is not altogether a Translation and for your better and clearer understanding of what is remarkable in a Country of the particularities of which our Nation above all others is most curious I have Explained all Passages needing Explication added many Observations of my own made during ten Years Travel and Converse in that Magnificent and splendid Court and digested the Whole into a Method as conformable as the matter would suffer to that observed by the Worthy and Ingenious Author of The Present State of England and consequently if I be not mistaken rendred both the Book and the Country much more intelligible to an English Reader than it was before when it was so far from being Illustrated that it was hardly half Translated and left in many of the most material Places almost as much French as in the Original and done in a very perplexed Method which allay'd much the Pleasure of the Reader who I hope will peruse this with more satisfaction and delight Farewel ☞ Note That l. after the several Summs signifies Livers which is something more in value than eighteen pence English and that d. signifies Deniers or Sols which is in value somewhat loss than a Penny English THE Present State OF FRANCE Of France in general CHAP. I. Of its Name Climate Dimensions Divisions Air Soil Commodities Riches Trade Moneys Weight Measures and Buildings THIS Famous Country has its present Name as by most Authors is agreed from the Franci or Franks a People of Germany who seized upon those parts of it nearest the Rhine in the time of Valentinian the Third and having afterward subdued Paris and made it the Seat-Royal of their growing Empire caused the Country thereabouts to be called FRANCE Which Name as they enlarged their Borders they communicated to the rest of the Country and those parts of Germany also that were Conquered by them The Ancient Name was Gallia or Gaul and the people were called Galli or Gauls and with those that write in Latin the ancient name is still in use It is scituated between the degrees of 15 and 29 of Longitude and between 42 and 51 of Latitude in the Northern Temperate Zone between the middle Parallel of the fifth Clime where the longest day is 15 hours and 12 Minutes and the middle Parallel of the Eighth Clime where the longest day is 16 hours and a half It is bounded on the North with the Brittish Ocean and some parts of the Netherlands on the South with part of the Pyrenean Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea on the East with a branch of the Alps and the Countries of Savoy Switzerland and some parts of Germany and the Rhine and on the West by the Aquitanian Sea and the rest of the Pyrenean Mountains The figure of it is according to most squarish and to others roundish or tending to an Oval but all agree that it is almost of equal extent every way and much about 200 Leagues or 600 Miles according to the common account of 3 Miles to a League which is an account by which most Geographers mightily inlarge the extent of other Countries and make England much less than it is for I have observed they reckon all by 3 Miles to a common League whereas I never could find that a common French League was more than 2 common Miles and if it be said that in some places they have much longer Leagues that is balanced by answering that in some parts of England there are likewise very long Miles An eminent Geographer reckons it 660 Italian Miles in length 570 in breadth and 2040 in compass and makes it contain 200 Millions of Arpens of Land which is a measure something more than an Acre The Ancient Gallia or Gaul was distinguisht by several Divisions but as not intending a History but only a short Description I shall take notice of but only two made by the Romans after they became Masters of this Country from the time of Julius Caesar by whom it was divided into these four parts viz. 1. Narbonensis is called so from the City of Narbon then a Roman Colony containing Languedoc Provence Dauphiny and some part of Savoy called also Braccata from the wild habit worn by the people 2. Aquitanica so called from the City of Aquae Augustae now D' Acqu's in Guienne lying upon the Pyrenees and the wide Ocean comprehending the Provinces of Gascoyn Guienne Xiantoygne Limosin Quercy Perigort Berry Bourbonnois and Auvergne extending from the Pyrenees to the River Loyre 3. Celtica so named from the valiant Nation of the Celtae also Lugdunensis from the City of Lyons and Comata from the long hair

before had but 14 d. a day have now 18 d. a day Of the Guards of the Gate Of these Guards there is a Captain who has a Salary of 3000 l. paid by the Treasurers of the Houshold and 4000 l. Board-Wages at the Chamber of Deniers He is sworn by the King himself and receives from him the Staff of Command Under him are Four Lieutenants quarterly Waiters who enjoy their Places by Patent from the King but are sworn by the Great Master of the Houshold and have each of them 500 l. Salary and 50 l. Gratuity and during the time of their Waiting eat at the Masters of the Housholds Table Fifty Guards of the Gate that serve by Quarters viz. Thirteen of them each of the two first Quarters and but twelve of each of the two last Quarters of the year They enjoy their Places too by Patent and are sworn by their Captain They are reckoned among the first and most ancient Guards of the Houshold which is the reason that this Company is yet to this day entred upon the Book of the General Establishment of the Houshold and accordingly receive their pay from the Treasurers of the Houshold and not from peculiar Treasurers of their own as do the other Companies of Guards Every day at six in the Morning the Guards of the Gate receive from the hands of the Life-Guard Men the Keys of the Gates of that Court where the Kings Lodgings or Apartments are within which they place Sentinels and at six at Night they return the said Keys again to the Life-Guards By the Court where the Kings Lodgings are I mean the principal Court of the Palace where he is as the Oval Court at Fountain-bleau He that stands Sentinel at the Gate holds a Carbine on his shoulder as do all the rest of this Company that are on the Guard who likewise stand to their Arms and place themselves in Ranks making a Lane near the Gate when his Majesty any other Royal Persons or any Ambassadours in going to or coming from their first and last Audiences are to pass by They also stand to their Arms in the same manner about the Gate within the Court of the Louvre or other Royal Palace where the King is exercising the Company of Gentlemen Musketeers during the whole time of the said Exercise in that Court The Guards of the Gate are to let none pass into the Palace with Arms but the Life-Guards only but are to stop all that offer to go in with Blunderbusses Firelocks Pikes Powder or any other Arms but Swords They all wear blue Coats laced with large gold and silver Galoon and trimmed with Buttons of Massy Silver Formerly they used to wear Jackets or Hoquetons like those worn at present by the Great Provosts Guards save only that upon the four great Skirts of them they had two Keys Embroidered Salter-wise and Swivels which are both of Buff. Their Belts at present are edged about with gold and silver Galoon and in the middle of their Swivels there is before and behind a golden Flower deluce and an L of the same for Lewis being the Kings Name and above them two Keys placed Salteir-wise and tied with a red Ribband all which is wrought in Embroidery enterlaced with Palms and Lawrels and Crowned with a Crown Royal. The Guards of the Gate in the time of their Waiting never take off their Swivels wherever he goes unless it be when he goes into the Kings Anti-Chamber or into the other Chambers Closets and Apartments of his Majesty At the end of their Quarters Waiting they receive 200 l. Wages from the General Treasurer of the Houshold and 40 l. Gratuity at the Treasure Royal. At Easter Whitsontide All-Saints Christmas Martlemas and on Shrove-Tuesday they have Portions of Bread Wine and Meat from the King which gives them the priviledge of Tablers or Commoners of the Kings Houshold they that are in Waiting at the like times on the Queen or the Dauphin have the same allowance from them At New-Years Tide the King gives them that are in Waiting that quarter 50 l. 5 d the Queen 32 l and the Parliament of Paris as much for which they give an Acquittance The other Sovereign Courts likewise and the Guildhall of Paris pay them some certain summs for they give also Acquittances Upon St. Lewis's Day which is his Majesties peculiar Festival the Kings allow them 40 l. out of the Privy-Purse of the Chamber Besides which they have a Fee of ten Crowns from the Treasurer of the Offrings every time the King touches for the Evil But however on the four great Festivals of the year they are paid the said allowance on that account whether the King touches or no. Those that are in Waiting share amongst them the Gifts and Liberalities made to them by the New Dukes and Peers and Marshals of France and other Officers of the Crown at their first Entry into the Kings Palace in their Coaches or Sedans by vertue of their new Dignity They have likewise Wax-Candles at Candlemas Torches on Corpus Christi Day and Prayer-Books in the Holy Week given them They are Exempt from Taxes and from the Imposition on Salt in those Provinces where it is established and from all Subsidies and Billeting of Souldiers They have the Priviledge of Committimus and take out Letters of State when they have need of them By an Order of the Privy-Council dated the 19th of November 1668. the King has confirmed the quality of Esquires to the Guards of the Gate and by a Declaration of the 17th of June 1659. and Letters Patents of the 3d of May 1675. registred in the Great Councel on the 27th of July following The King was pleased to Order that the Guards of the Gate should have the precedence in all honours done in the Church and in all other places and Assemblies before all the Officers of the Elections of the Granaries of Salt and Judges not Royal and in general before all others inferiour in degree to the Counsellers of Bayliwicks Seneschalsies and Presidial Seats or Courts of Judicature Now it being the Duty of the Guards of the Gate in the Day time and of the Life-Guard Men from six a Clock at Night to distinguish those to whom the King is pleased to permit the Honour of going into the Louvre or other of the Kings Palaces in their Coaches or Sedans and to keep all others from entring in that manner It will not be amiss to subjoin in this place The Order and Rank of Precedence observed in admitting and placing of those to whom the King permits the honour of entring into his Royal Palace in their Coaches or Sedans No Body is to enter into the Kings Palace in a Coach in the Morning before their Majesties be awake and at Night as soon as the King is in Bed all the Coaches within the Palace are to go out and Monsieurs is set up under the Gate or Porch of the Palace Next to the first Coaches