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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A70100	Voyages and travels over all Europe Containing all that is most curious in that part of the world. In eight tomes. Done out of French.	Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720.	1693 (1693)	Wing F726; ESTC R216771	137,558	320

Atchievements that Fame upon other occasions accustom'd to multiply proves deficient in this not being able should she lessen 'em to render your Great Actions credible to Posterity Prerogatives so sublime that they enforce all States to look upon 'em with a most profound Obsequiousness and have particularly induc'd my Republick to distinguish her self above all others to manifest it in such a manner that all the World may be apparently convinc'd of it And the most terrible and fatal Accident that ever befel her is this of incurring your Majesties high displeasure I cannot therefore proportionably display her extream Sorrow to have offended your Majesty though she is apt to flatter her self that this is befallen through an effect of pure Misfortune nevertheless she is desirous that whatever may have dissatisfy'd your Majesty may be cancell'd at any rate not only from your Memory but from the Remembrance of all Men she not knowing any way to alleviate her Afflictions till she beholds her self restor'd to your Majesties inestimable Favour Therefore that she may become worthy of obtaining it she assures your Majesty that all her most intent Applications and most sollicitous Cares shall be imploy'd to procure not only the preservation of it but also to habituate her self to increase it In order to which not content with expressions the most proper and most obsequious she resolv'd to make use of unusual and singular forms sending her Duke and four Senators in hopes that by such special Demonstrations your Majesty will be fully convinc'd of the most high esteem which my Republick has of your Favour and Good Will As for my own part Sir I acknowledge it for my greatest good fortune to have the Honour of declaring these my most sincere and most respectful Sentiments and prize above all things this Opportunity of appearing in the presence of so great a Monarch who invincible for his Valour and reverenc'd for his unparallel'd Magnanimity and Grandeur as you have surmounted all others in Ages Past so you secure the same Prosperity to your Progeny From so happy an Augury I assume the Confidence that your Majesty to make known to the Universe the singularity of your most Generous Soul will incline your Heart to look upon these Remonstrances no less just then sincere as Testimonies not only of the Integrity of my Heart as of the Minds of these Illustrious Senators and Citizens of my Country who with Impatience attend the reciprocal Marks that your Majesty will vouchsafe to grant 'em of your Benignity and Kindness CHAP. V. Of the States of the Dukes of Parma and Modena THE Duke of Parma is a Vassal to the Holy See to which he pays a Tribute of Ten Thousand Crowns for his Dutchies of Parma and Piacenza This State has undergone several Revolutions since the Decay of the Empire till the Church being in peaceable Possession of it Alexander Farneze being advanc'd to the Pontificate under the name of Paul III. erected Parma into a Dukedom and gave it his Son Peter Farneze in the year 1545. But the Emperor Charles V. disputed the Possession of it with him till the death of the said Duke who died Two years after However Octavio Farneze his Son being powerfully protected by the King of France secur'd that State to his Successors by the Marriage of Margaret of Austria natural Daughter of the same Emperor The Country adjoyning is very Ferril in Corn Wine Fruit but more especially in Cheese the excellency of which is sufficiently known 'T is sufficient to say that they make some of these Cheeses that weigh a Hundred and fifty pound and that they are esteem'd for so great Delicacies among the Turks that they are usually serv'd up to the Great Turk and his Visiers at their Banquets There are likewise several Wells of Salt Water in the adjacent parts out of which they draw White Salt and some Iron and Copper Mines The Revenue of the Duke of Parma amounts to Five hundred thousand Roman Crowns a year which make Seventeen hundred and fifty Livres of France and at a pinch of necessity he is able to bring into the Field Eighteen thousand Foot of his own Subjects The City of Parma Capital of the Dntchy and where the Duke keeps his Court is divided into three Parts by the River Parma over which are built Three Bridges that joyn the whole together It is adorn'd with a Bishoprick under the Arch-Bishop of Bologna and a Famous University Founded in the year 1599 by Ranuccio Farneze The Citadel consisting of Five Bastions is one of the strongest and best fortifi'd in Italy Foreigners always visit the Dukes Palace which is a most Magnificent Structure wherein there was no spare made of Marble Jasper or Porphyrie The Gardens belonging to the Palace and the Cathedral Church are the Rarities which next the Palace are worthy Observation Piacenza is the Second City in the Duke of Parma's Territories bearing the Title of a a Dutchy with a Bishoprick Suffragan to Bologna 'T is thought that it deriv'd the name of it from the Situation which is in a Plain extreamly Fertile It stands not far from the River Po being about Five Miles in circuit Near the City to the West they shew ye the Place where St. Anthony call'd down Fire from Heaven upon the Soldiers that derided his Name Thô what is more considerable is the Fountain in the great Piazza of Piacenza which Augustus caus'd to be brought to the City and the Statue of Alexander Farneze the First a Horseback in Brass MOdenois or the State of Medena lies to the East of Parma It was erected into a Dukedom by the Emperor Frederick III. in 1452. in favour of Borso d'Este The Country abounds with Plenty of all things As for the Dutchy it self it holds of the Emperor to whom the Duke of Modena pays a yearly Tribute of 4000 Crowns The Revenue of it amounts to about a Million of Italian Livres which make Seven hundred and fifty thousand Livres of France and in a time of Need the Duke is able to Arm Five and twenty thousand Men. Modena the Capital of the Dutchy is the usual Residence of the Duke It is seated between the Rivers of Sechia and Panaro and altho the Streets are somewhat narrow yet it is a very pleasant Habitation Foreigners go to see the Duke's and the Bishop's Palaces the Cathedral and the Citadel where there is nothing however very remarkable History informs us that Modena was formerly a Roman Colony and that after the death of Julius Caesar Brutus was there in vain Besieg'd by Marc Antonie in the year of Rome 710. That the City was afterwards ruin'd by the Goths and Lombards and rebuilt under the Reign of the Sons Charlemain and that it was near Modena that in the year of Rome 711 Hirtius and Pansa were defeated by Marc Antonie The Steeple of Modena is one of the Highest Towers in Italy CHAP. VI. Of the Territories of the Duke of Mantua THE Duke

Eighteen to Thirty Years of Age. The Bastille is a Castle built near St. Anthony's Gate for the Security of the Arsenal which is one of the best provided in Europe This Fortress is flank'd with Four Towers surrounded with Moats and furnish'd with Good Artillery and is the Place where many times Prisoners of State are secur'd The Royal Hospital for the Infirm is a House which Lewis XIV caus'd to be built for the Entertainment of Officers and Souldiers who are not in a Condition to bear Arms as having been Maim'd in the King's Service And there may be conveniently Lodg'd in this Hospital Four Thousand Men who keep as exact Guard within the Place as if they were in a Garrison Now in regard that Paris lyes in the Heart of the Kingdom there is no need of keeping any Garrison in it But because it is the general Concourse of all sorts of People and for that it frequently happens that Rogues and Night-Robbers wait their Opportunities and generally practise their Villanies in Places of great resort the City therefore keeps a standing Watch of Two hundred and fifty Men part Horse and part Foot which are divided into several Quarters to walk the Rounds and ride the Patroule But in regard the Criminals make it their Business to avoid 'em the Citizens and others are frequently set upon after the Watch is past not being able to help themselves 'T is true that in my Opinion it were an easie thing to secure Paris against the Robberies and Murthers which are too frequently there committed with little Charge to the City but it would be a rashness in me to go about to instruct the most understanding Magistrates in the World I have already mention'd that in Paris there are Seventy and three Publick Piazza's or Market-Places I shall only speak of those three which are the most Modern and which are also the most considerable The first is call'd the Royal Place which is in that part where formerly stood the Palais des Tournelles or of the Parlamental Court for Criminal Causes near St. Antonies-Street 'T is very regular and environ'd with Thirty six Pavillions no less proportionable and rail'd quite round with Iron Spikes on all the four sides All the foreparts of the Houses round the Piazza are supported with Pillars that make a kind of a Gallery or Portico under which People may walk at all times shelter'd from the Sun and the Rain Hen. IV. began it but in regard it was not finish'd till in the Reign of Lewis XIII they set up a Brass Statue of King Lewis omitting his Predecessor Erected the 27th of Septemb. 1639. upon a Pedestal of white Marble with Inscriptions on the four Sides The Second is the Place de Victoires in the Parish of St. Eustachius at the End of the Street des Petits Champs which some People know better by Mazarin's Quarter Messire Francois d'Aubusson Duke de Fueillade built this Piazza as an Eternal Monument of his Fidelity and Zeal for the Honour of Lewis XIV in the Year 1686. and in his Memory Erected in the Middle of it the King's Statue of Gilt Brass The Groupe of this Statue is compos'd of three Figures The one represents the King standing upright in his Royal Robes The other Victory which stands behind having one foot upon a Globe from whence she raises her self and puts a Crown upon the King's Head The Third is a Cerberus which the King tramples under foot alluding to the Triple Alliance which the King made a shift to break by the help of a Kind Neighbour The King's Statue is Thirteen foot high and the Groupe with a Hercules's Club a Lions Skin and a Helmet weighs above Thirty thousand weight The whole is very neatly Gilt and rais'd upon a Pedestal of vein'd Marble two and twenty foot high adorn'd with four Bodies of Brass in Chains with Inscriptions denoting the Subjection to which the King has reduc'd his Enemies At the four Entrances into the Place stands a Brass Lanthorn Gilt into which there are Candles put every Night to enlighten the Place Which Lanthorns are sustain'd by three Columns of Marble adorn'd with Base Reliefs of Brass which represent the King's Victories Monsieur de la Fueillade foreseeing that Time brings all things to ruin and defaces the noblest Structures and being desirous to preserve this Monument entire to perpetuity made a Deed of Conveyance of all his Estate to the present Duke of Fueillade the Male Heirs of his Body and for want of such Issue to the next of Kin that bore the Name and Arms of Aubusson and for want of such to the City of Paris upon Condition that whoever inherit shall every Five and twenty Years reguild the Statue Lanthorns and Ornaments at their own Costs and Charges keep all the several Pieces of Workmanship in repair and find Candles for the Lanthorns to enlighten the Piazza The Third is a very fair and large Piazza very like the Royal Piazza only that it has not Arches round about in form of a Portico It joyns to St. Honor's Street facing the Convents of the Brown Mendicants and the Capuchins and runs as far as the New Street of the Little Fields M. de Louvois began it but since his Death the Buildings have been discontinu'd 'T is call'd the Piazza of the Conquests and was design'd for the setting up the King's Statue on Horseback which is already finish'd and the Ornaments that are to accompany it are to set forth the Glorious Actions of that Monarch And since I am speaking of the Publick Places where the Statues of our Kings are to be seen I must not omit the Statue of Henry the Great erected upon Pont Neuf just against the Dauphin Piazza It is of Brass upon a Horse of the same Metal rais'd upon a Pedestal of Marble and Jasper adorn'd with Base Reliefs and Inscriptions in Letters of Gold denoting the Principal Victories of that Great Monarch Pont Neuf standing over the Point of the Island of the Palace was begun in 1578. under the Reign of Henry III. but was not finish'd till 1604. when Henry IV. was come to the Crown and had in part appeas'd the Troubles of his Kingdom It consists of two Bridges which the Point of the Island joyns together supported by Twelve Arches On both sides of this Bridge upon an Elevation of about three foot stand a great Number of Brokers Shops which do not hinder but that four Coaches may go a-breast in the middle It is also adorn'd with a House that stands upon Piles which is commonly call'd La Samaritaine because of the Figure of the Samaritan Woman which is there to be seen together with that of Christ who instructs her that there is a Water more wholesom then that which she seeks for Within these few Years there was another Bridge built much after the fashion of Pont Neuf over against the Palace of the Tuilleries which is now call'd Pont Royal the Royal