An. 1679. in the month of June the King gave in his Council to the Archbishop Duke of Rheims a place of Counsellor of State in Ordinary who seats himself as first Duke and Peer above the Dean of the Council immediately after the Chancellor of France Amiens has had seventy six Bishops from St. Firmin to Messire Francois Faure he was Preacher in Ordinary to the late Queen Mother Ann of Austria Beauvais eighty nine from St. Lucien to Messire Toussaint Fourbin de Janson Count and Peer of France and Vidame of Gerbroi This Prelate carries the Mantle Royal at the Kings Consecration and Coronation He was Bishop of Dignes and afterward of Marseilles and a long time Embassadour in Poland I speak of it in the Tract of the Sarmathians he was propos'd by the Pope in his Consistory for the Bishoprick of Beauvais though he had not been precogniz'd because a Precognization is not necessary when his Holiness proposes a Subject The Cardinals with a common voice gave him gratis a half of the Bulls The 27th of November 1679. he was received in the Grand Chamber of the Parliament with the usual Ceremonies and took there his place betwixt the Bishop Duke of Langres and the Bishop Count de Noyon in the presence of the Duke d'Enguien of the Prince of Conti of the Prince de la Roche-sur-Yon and of seventeen Dukes and Peers whereof three were Ecclesiasticks He gave afterward a Dinner to the Princes of the Bloud and to the Dukes and Peers Boulogne has had sixty six Bishops comprizing those of Teroüanne to Messire Nicolas Lavocat Billard sixth Bishop of Boulogne formerly Canon of the Church of Paris The first Prelate of Teroüanne was call'd Antimondus or Aumondus the first of Boulogne Antoine de Crequy Three Bishopricks have been made of that of Teroüanne that of Boulogne that of St. Omer and that of Ypres Châlons eighty nine from St. Mamet to Messire Loüis-Antoine de Noailles Count and Peer of France He carries the Ring at the Consecration and Coronation of his Majesty Laon seventy seven from St. Genebaud or Genebal to Cardinal Caesar d'Estrées Duke and Peer of France he carries the holy Vial at the Kings Consecration and Coronation This Eminency holds his Hat from the Crown of Portugal whereof he is Protector His most Christian Majesty gave him An. 1679. the Abbey of St. Claude in Franche-Comte vacant by the death of Dom John of Austria Noyon ninty two from Hilary to Messire Francois de Clairmont de Yonnere Count and Peer of France He carries the Wast-belt at the Kings Coronation Senlis eighty nine from St. Regulus to Messire Denis Sanguin Soissons eighty one from St. Sixtus to Messire Charles Bourlon The Archbishoprick of Narbonne NArbonne seventy one both Bishops and Archbishops from St. Paul the Proconsul to Cardinal Pierre de Bonzi the Queens Grand Almoner formerly Embassadour of France at Venice in Poland and in Spain He was Bishop of Beziers sometime afterward Archbishop of Tolose and for some great good is made Archbishop of Norbanne which of course constitutes him President of the Estates of Languedoc who look upon him as their Protector and the King considers him at the same time as a faithful Support of his Authority His promotion to the Cardinalship happen'd the 22d of February 1672. and his late great Uncle Jean de Bonzi who was grand Almoner of Queen Marie de Medicis was made Cardinal at the nomination of France and this by that of Poland His Embassies have gain'd him very great lights The Suffragans of Narbonne are Agde Aleth Beziers Carcassonne Lodeve Montpellier Nismes S. Pons de Tomires and Vzez Agde sixty five Bishops from Beticus to Messire Loüis Foucquet Lord and Count of the Town of Agde Heaven makes known to this Prelate by experience that the Felicities of the Earth are mixt with bitterness Aleth twenty one from St. Bartholmew to Messire Loüis Alphonse de Valbelle He succeeds Nicholas Pavilion who wisht that Superiours were infallible in their Sentiments impeccable in their Conduct and far from all surprize Beziers seventy two from St. Afrodisius to Messire Armand Jean de Rotondis de Biscara This Prelate pass'd from the Bishoprick of Dignes to that of Lodeve and from Lodeve to Beziers He is arrived from degree to degree to one of the most considerable of Languedoc by his merit and by the services which himself and his have rendred the State The Organs of his Cathedral-Church have the reputation of being the fairest of France Carassonne seventy three from St. Guimera to Messire Loüis de Bourlemon Auditor of the Rota Lodeve a hundred and seven from St. Florus vulgarly St. Flour to Messire Claude Antoine de Chambonas Montpellier sixty three to Messire Charles de Pradel comprizing those of Maguelone which was transferr'd to Montpellier under Pope Paul the Third An. 1536. The first Bishop of Maguelone was call'd Ether or Ethere and the first fixt at Montpellier was Pellicie the Seventh of the name Messire Charles de Pardel was nominated Anno 1675. Coadjutor of his Uncle whose great services rendred to the Church and State even to the exposal of his life once while he was Intendant of Justice helpt to recompence the science and desert of him who occupies the See at present Nismes ninty six from Crocus to Messire Jaques Seguier formerly Bishop of Lombez before Canon and Theologal of the Church of Paris The King considering that Heresie had laid very deep roots for a long time in the Diocess of Nismes and that it was a thing of importance to establish there a Pastor of an extraordinary Zeal nominated him to this Bishoprick an 1671. where this Prelate incessantly pursues the wild Beast which has spoil'd in divers places the Vineyard of the Lord. St. Tomieres nineteen from Raymond to Messire Pierre-Jean-Francois de Montgaillard Vzez sixty from Constance to Messire Michel Poncet de la Riviere Doctor of the House and Society of Sorbonne Bishop and Count of Vzez As soon as he entred into this Diocess infected with Heresie he began with the reformation of his Clergy and afterward cast the Apostolical Net and drew up into the Vessel of the Church many Fish I mean men according to the promise which the Son of God made to his Apostles that they should be fishers of men instead of fish Faciam vos fieri piscatores hominum The Town of St. Ambrose whereof he is Pryor and Lord knows it by experience where after having put the last hand to a very fair Church and having consecrated in an 1679. he gave in one day the Absolution of Heresie to forty seven persons The Archbishoprick of Bourges BOurges a hundred and two Prelates from St. Vrsin to Messire Phelipeaux de la Vrilliere St. Rodulphe forty fourth Bishop of Bourges was declared Archbishop Primate and Patriarch The ordinary Suffragans were eleven Albi Cahors Castres Clermont in Auvergne Limoges Mande le Puy Rhodez St. Flour Tulles and Vabres Since
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
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
for great Captains men of Brain and execution good for War and for Peace for Battles and for Treaties such as have not been like the Emperour Domitian who amus'd himself in running through slyes with a Golden Bodkin or Aropas King of Macedon who made Lanterns or Hartabus King of the Hircans who caught Moles or Biantes King of the Lydians who ran Frogs through It has in this Age Loüis de Bourbon Prince of Condé and the Duke d'Enguien Sons of Mars and Bellona to whom the number of Enemies does but add courage bloody occasions being their divertisements and for this reason they have done actions that might better be imagined than written Their Swords have painted them much more lively with the blood of the Spaniards and other Nations than they may be represented with a Quill The most intelligent know well that these are not chance-blows but ordinary effects of their dexterity and courage The famous and bloody Battle of Senef Crowns their Military Exploits They have joyned Learning with Arms and have an excellent Library where there are rare Greek and Latine Manuscripts The Father and the Son are living Libraries Prince Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne Vicount de Turenne FRance has its Marshals and its Captains and an infinite number of valiant and flesht Souldiers the greatest part of them capable of commanding and he that has commanded them so long time and so gloriously Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne Vicount de Turenne Marshal-General of the Kings Camps and Armies and Colonel-General of the French Cavalry is recommendable for his famous Exploits and for the important Victories that he has gained over the Enemies of the State and more in this happy day that renouncing the Errour in which he was born and in which he had lived he embraced with a sincere heart the Catholick Faith which leads to Eternal Salvation the Church Militant has not had less joy than the Triumphant Though Learning was familiar to this Prince and that he has been heard to say very convincing things for the proof and maintaining of Catholick Truths the Church is obliged to Cardinal de Boüillon his Nephew for having contributed to so illustrious a Conquest Italian Princes were heard to say to his Highness at his promotion to the Cardinalship La promotion di vestra Altezza al Cardinalato Colmo d'honore il Sacro Collegio I shall not omit that if the said Henry de la Tour left the Earth the Twenty first of July 1675. to rest from his labours being killed by a Cannon-shot near Satzbach as he went to take a view of a Post of the Imperial Army to the end to give it Battle after the loss of so great a Man the King to comfort himself made Nine Marshals of France the Count d'Estrade the Duke de Navailles the Count de Schomberg the Duke de Duras the Duke de Vivonne the Duke de la Feüillade the Duke de Luxembourg the Marquess de Rochefort and the Count de Lorge His Majesty honour'd them with the dignity of the Marshals staff the Thirtieth of July of the same year of Vicount Turenne's death The Ancientest Marshals of France living Anno 1680. are these THe Marshal Duke de Villeroy the Marshal Duke de la Ferte-Seneterre the Marshal de Crequi the Marshal de Bellefond and the Marshal d'Humieres these three last are of the penultimate Promotion The Marshal de Rochefort dyed An. 1676. he quitted the life Military for the glorious The Ministers and Secretaries of State IF the King be the Soul of the Monarchy his Ministers are the Organs by which he works His Majesty has carried the glory of France to so high a point that it may hope all things and its Enemies fear all Its Ministers and Secretaries of State are indefatigable in their pretious vigilancy and in the cares they take for the rest of the Kingdom They have all signalized themselves their spirit is filled with lights so shining that there is no cloud that they do not pierce nor no Forreign or Domestick Factions which they do not dissipate and subvert their experience is universal A very famous Preacher who is an Archbishop Preaching in Sorbon on the day of St Vrsula the Patroness Feast of that Colledge in the presence of Anne of Austriche Queen of France said that Cardinal Richlieu had the Spirit of the Prophet Elias and Cardinal Mazarine that of the Prophet Elizeas I believe that these have the Spirit of Elias and Elizeas Richlieu and Mazarine Nor is it to be wondred at all their lights being but necessary and favourable emanations of the great splendour of the Sun who animates and enlightens them The Chancellour MEssire Michael de Tellier Chevalier Chancellour and Keeper of the Seals of France Commander of the Kings Orders Lord of Chavilles Barbezieux and other places excels in Councel Understanding and Integrity he is consummated in the decision of affairs of greatest difficulty Italy has been the Theater of his great Actions as well as France For this reason Loüis the Thirteenth made him Secretary of State and Loüis the Fourteenth Created him Chancellour and Keeper of the Seals for the faithful and important Services that he has rendred his Majesty for above thirty six years in the functions of Minister and Secretary of State He has the esteem of all great persons and the applause of the people his Memory will be preserved eternally in the Chronicles of France The Arms of his House are Three Lizards which are friendly to Man That which renders particularly eminent the Office of Chancellour which this person possesses is that he is Chief Minister of the Kings Justice and of his Councel it is he who like another Legislatour Moses ascends into the Mountain he enters into the Cloud which environs the Throne of his Prince where the Rayes and Lightning of Royal Majesty display themselves and where he receives the Laws and Ordinances which he afterwards pronounces to all the people He never wears Mourning because in some sort he deposes his own person to represent for the future nought but Justice it being not decent for this vertue which is wholly Divine to shew a feeling of humane infirmities He has for exteriour mark of his high dignity on his Scutcheon a Cap of Honour of Cloth of Gold faced with Ermines topt with the figure of a Queen the Hieroglyphick of France with the Scepter in the right hand and the Seals of the Kingdom in the left behind the Scutcheon two great Maces of Silver gilt plac'd in Saltier with a Mantle like those of the Dukes and Peers of France adorned with rayes of Gold towards the top and lined with Ermins which encompass all the Scutcheon The door-keepers of the Chancery-Court carrying a Mace of Silver gilt on their Shoulders march before him and the other door-keepers in order In the Book entituled l'Estat de la France Printed An. 1678. pag. 199. I found these following Lords ranged in this following
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
than the Military Art Minerva and Mars are both Children of Jupiter Alexander the Great read Homer's Iliads and Odysses Julius Caesar has left us his Commentaries Alexander Severus read Plato's Republick Tulliee Offices and Horace The great Captain Scipio studied the Institution of Cyrus Tiberius and Adrian the Works of Ovid. Charlemagne King of France and Emperour read the Scripture the Fathers and particularly the Works of St. Austin made Rules for the Reformation of the Church entituled Capitula Caroli Magni Charles the Fifth King of France nam'd the Wise caus'd the Latin Bible to be translated into French and caus'd other Versions to be made S. Loüis Francis the First and other Kings of France have lov'd Learning and learned persons Alphonsus the Tenth King of Castile compos'd Books on the Civil Law fine Astronomical Tables and even the General History of Spain it has been observ'd that he read the Bible fourteen times St. Bruno in his Book entituled the present state of the Affairs of Germany with the Interests and Genealogies of the Princes of the Empire reduces the Estates of the Prince Palatine to ten Bailiwicks and notes his Revenue he has inherited five hundred thousand Livres of Rent since the death of the Palatine of Simmeren Uncle of Charles Loüis and formerly his Tutor The Elector Palatine and he of Bavaria are of the same Family The House Palatine is the eldest Frederick the Fifth Count Palatine elected King of Bohemia had the Electoral Dignity taken from him An. 1623. at the Diet of Ratisbone which gave it to Maximilian Duke of Bavaria The Elector Palatine of the Rhine was restor'd to the possession of the lower Palatinate and invested with an eighth Electorate which was erected at the Treaty of Peace of Westphalia at the instance of the most Christian King When the Emperour is not in Germany or that the Empire is vacant the Electors Palatines and of Saxony are Vicegerents or Regents Bavaria contests it at present with one of them The King of the Romans is perpetual Vicegerent of the Emperour The House Palatine has given Emperours to Germany one King to Denmark and two or three to Sweden and of late years a very worthy Spouse the Princess Elizabeth Charlotte to Philip of France Duke of Orleans onely Brother of the King of France and Navarre This Marriage was concluded and the Articles sign'd the sixth of November 1671. The Marriage was made at Metz the 26th of the same month and of the same year Philip Count Palatine of the Rhine and his Brother Frederick the Second signaliz'd themselves at the Siege of Vienna against Solyman they commanded in the Town and so vigorously repell'd the Turks in their Assaults that they kill'd 40000. These two Princes besides the danger of their Life engag'd all their Estates for the support of this War The Emperour Charles the Fifth was about Vienna keeping the Field The Palatinate of the Rhine furnishes all things necessary for humane life a great deal of Corn and good Wines In the great Tower of Heidelberg is seen a remarkable Vessel which contains forty Pipes of Wine it deserves Iron Hoops There was seen at Heidelberg before the year 1623. the curious Palatine Library which was transported to the Vatican at Rome The River Necar is very full of Fish and serves as well for bringing Wood from the Otthonick Forest as for the transportation of Merchandize Near this Forest appear'd An. 1476. a Shepherd called Nicolas Hausen who quitting the charge of his Flock forg'd a Religion and turn'd Preacher He preach'd first against the life of Church-men and said that they ought not to have Titles given them He attacht also the Secular powers maintaining that there must be no paying of Tolls nor Tributes nor any Imposition or Subsidy that all was common and said in his Sermons that he had a Revelation from the holy Virgin The People who are lovers of Novelties flockt to heâ—r him from all parts He had as great a concourse of People as the Mason that preacht at Paris in the Fauxbourg S. Germain An. 1672 or 1673. At length Nicolas Hausen was indicted and condemn'd to be burnt as an Heretick The Mason who preacht but moral things was interdicted preaching having neither Order nor Mission A Relation tells us that his Electoral Highness Charles Loüis made an end of building An. 1680. at Frederickbourg near Manshein one of the fairest Churches of Germany and that he dedicated it to holy Concord or Vnion which now he makes it bear and caus'd it to be mention'd in a Sermon preacht there the first day for its dedication The Ceremony began with a sine Concert of Musick which was followed with an inaugural Oration very learned and a learned Sermon of Doctor Fabritius his first Minister in the afternoon he caus'd to preach there a Lutheran Doctor and in the evening a Catholick Priest of the Church of Mayence and all three freely heard each other on the laudable designe of his Electoral Highness You must not admire at this diversity of Preachers because in some places of Germany the same Church is common to Catholicks and Lutherans Of the number of the Electors and other Circumstances THe Electors were formerly seven in number three belonging to the Church and four Lay-men They are at present eight since the Peace of Germany concluded at Munster An. 1648. The Lay-Electors who are Minors in the Election of an Emperour may be present there accompanied with their Guardians who are their nearest Relations They have no need of them if they have attain'd the age of eighteen years compleat because then they come out of Guardianship The Princes Electors have the power of chusing the Emperour to the end that none attributes to himself the Imperial Dignity as hereditary Though the Electors pretend to be equal with Kings their Embassadours have not their Seats but after those of Crown'd heads The youngest Sons of the Electoral Houses take place in Germany of other Princes The Confusion which arose formerly from the great number of Electors was the reason that they were reduc'd to so few The Emperour Charles the Fourth confirm'd them in the possession of this Right mention'd in the Golden Bull. The Great Turk calls them the Kings of Germany Before we leave Germany we will observe that Powder and Cannon were there invented The Invention of Powder and Cannon POwder was invented by chance An. 1354. by Berthold Schuartz a German Cordelier This great Naturalist making an Experiment of Rarefaction shewing that there was no Vacuum in Nature made use of a Pot well cover'd wherein he had put Sulphur and the powder of Saltpeter and laid fire to it whereof he saw the effect Some hold him to be the Inventer both of Powder and Cannon Others say that it was Bartholomew le Noir a Monk of Cologne a great Alchymist who found out the Secret of making Cannon according to Nauclerus in the same year 1354. and according to Baronius