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A55353	A modern view of such parts of Europe that hath lately been and still are the places of great transactions, viz. Italy with all its principalities. France with all its provinces and bishopricks. Germany with the Dukedome of Lorrain, and all the electorates, and lordshops of the empire. Spain, with all its dominions, &c. Wherein is shewed the present state of all those countries, with curious remarks of antiquity interwoven.	Pontier, Gédéon, d. 1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing P2805; ESTC R217679	132,112	321

and has given him a meet Education and inspired into him that he must never be Absolute but in Reason and Justice These are the firm Pillars of a State. His Majesty considering that it is to infect the head of a publick Fountain to corrupt the Soul of a Prince that may one day be seated on the Throne for this reason removes from his company Flatterers and Libertines who might render obscure the precious gifts and rare qualities which Heaven pours with full hands on this Royal Soul which rejoyces France which increases every day more and more by the noble cares by the high lights and by the incomparable Conduct of the Illustrious Persons who have governed and instructed him This Prince in his Orient is the admiration of the whole Court of Ambassadors and of Forreign Ministers and will be one day the Model of the greatest Heroes We see this Divine Plant to grow and rise it self every day to the admiration and glory of France and of the Church Anno 1668 Pope Clement the Ninth sent into France Prince Loüis Cardinal Deacon Duke of Vendôme Legat a Latere to Loüis the Fourteenth for the Solemnity and Ceremony of the Baptism of Monsieur le Dauphin His Holiness was Godfather and he was named Loüis August This Prince has Married the Electoral Princess of Bavaria Mary-Ann-Victoir-Christian People admire her Perfections the excellency of her Understanding her Majestick Air the evenness of her Humour and generally all the excellent qualities that she possesses which yet as eminent as they are are much beneath the Christian Vertues wherewith her fair Soul is endowed This great Princess will give her Spouse Heirs to the Crown and he in exchange will Crown her with Palms and Laurels The Church and the State will gather the fruits of Glory and of Benediction The 7th of March 1680 Cardinal Boüillon great Almoner of France gave them the second Benediction of Marriage at Chalons on Marn Lilia florebunt the Lillies will flourish and diffuse their agreeable odour over all the earth I have spoken of the August Electoral House of Bavaria in the Tract of the Princes Electors of the Empire The Duke of Orleans MOnfieur the only Brother of the King did not fail to signalize his Courage before Lisle and Mastrich when they were reduced and to take Towns on other occasions Before he reduced St. Omer to the Kings Obedience he surpast himself on the eleventh of April of the year 1677. at the Battle which he fought a● Cassel being assisted by the Marshals d'Humieres and de Luxembourg where he gained a very great and very famous Victory o'er the Spanish and Dutch Troops commanded by the Prince of Orange The Chevalier de Lorain was always near his person in the Fight and his Brother the Chevalier d'Harcourt may be lookt upon as a second David after having killed at the Battle of Raab the Turkish Goliah who insolently insulted over the Christian Army Cassel is known in History to have been the field of Battle of three Sons of France all called Philip the first was overcome the other two were Conquerers This last and glorious day was remarkable for many singular actions the Cavalry contributed extreamly by their vigour to the gaining of this great Battle they had the advantage to give the beginning to the Victory overthrowing at first onset the left Wing of the Enemy We may say that the first Squadron composed of Scotch and English was not of those that signalized themselves least by the advantage it had to begin and almost to end this great day it was led by the Compt de Bröe more known by the name de la Guette His firmness was like to have cost him his life in the last Charge his sole Squadron which was well kept in order being attackt by five Squadrons of the Enemy This Count Captain-Lieutenant of the English Souldiery for his most Christian Majesty was very fortunate in that it cost him but his liberty ev'n his Enemies rendred Justice to his Merit by treating him with as much Civility as he could wish The Musketeers came very seasonably at the instant that the Victory hanged in doubt they made themselves Masters of the Barricado of Cassel The Commander de Fourbin whose Illustrious and Ancient House has furnisht great Captains and learned Politicians to the State whom our Kings have caressed and honoured with the greatest Employs of the Kingdom and so esteemed them that they have been pleased to have them for their safety as well as for their Councel near their Royal persons it 's the Elogy of their Family The Wise and Valiant Fourbins gave a testimony of both in this dangerous and important occasion and his Majesty shewed his generous acknowledgment by the reception he made him at his glorious return even to give him his Picture which he took from his arm and which the Sieur Commander Captain-Lieutenant of the first Company had more in his heart than all the Pictures that could be given him The Sieur de Hautfaye Lord of Jonvel Captain-Lieutenant of the second Company did his part well there The Chevalier de Lussan in this famous Battle lost one Arm by a Cannon-shot in the service of his King and Country The Count d' Avejan Captain of the Guards bestirred himself vigorously according to his wont The Prince of Condé and the Duke d'Enguien FRance has always been provided with great Men in all Ages and in all kinds It has not been at a loss 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 flyes 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 nu●●er 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

league is of 2500 paces Antonius Andrew Resendius Gretserus Merula Rabbi Benjamin Count de Brinne Peter de la Vallée a Roman Gentleman John Baptista de Rocole and others have made Itineraries Some Astrologers speaking of Leagues have taken occasion to say that the Sun goes in an hour 290921 leagues of the greatest of France According to this computation he must go as quick or swifter than an Arrow out of a Bow or as a Bullet shot out of a Musket by reason of the greatness of the way he passes day and night On this ground it has been asserted that in case a Carrier could go post from the Earth to Heaven he would not reach to the Starry Heaven in 1300 years if he went not more than 16 or 17 German leagues each day Hesiod says in his Theogonia that it would require nine days and nine nights for an Anvil of Iron to fall from the Heaven of the Moon to the Earth and that it would arrive on it the tenth Let us leave the consideration of these matters to Astrologers FRANCE LOVIS the Fourteenth King of France and Navarre surnamed the Great came into the World the Fifth of September An. 1638. was declared of Age the Seventh of September 1651. Crowned at Rheims the Seventh of June 1654. was Married at St. Johns de Luz An. 1660. the Ninth of June to Mary Theresa of Austrich Infanta of Spain Daughter of Philip the Fourth and of Elizabeth of France This great Princess is a Mirrour of Piety and the Mother of the People Those that have the honour to behold her Countenance have the happiness to find there all the Graces which have taken pleasure to seat themselves in it The Twenty fourth of August of the same year their Majesties made their Royal Entry into Paris accompanyed with Princes Ambassadors and Forreign Ministers with all the Pomp and Magnificence imaginable Heaven has blest this Marriage by the Birth of Monseigneur le Dauphin Loüis is the Most Christian King and the Eldest Son of the Church He has for Motto Consiliis armisque potens And also this Nec pluribus Impar He bears Azure Three Flower-de-luces Or which formerly were Semè or without number and reduced to Three by Charles the Sixth The Scutcheon is Environed with the Collars of The Orders of S. Michael and of the Holy Ghost Ensigned with a Helmet Or entirely open thereon a Crown closed after the manner of ●n Imperial Crown with eight in arched Rayes topt with a double Flower-de-luce and this is the Crest for Supporters two Angels habited as Levites the whole under a Pavilion Royal Semè of France Lined Ermines with these words Ex omnibus floribus elegi mihi Lilium Lilia non laborant neque nent These terms The Lillies do not spin import That the Flower-de-luces which represent the Crown of France never fall to the Distaff that the Female Sex cannot inherit according to the Salick Law as it is amongst the Chaldeans Egyptians Persians Chineses Turks Tartars and Parthians Women have sometimes succeeded in Spain England Sicily and in Sweden but never in France The Arms of Navarre are Gules Chains of Gold interlaced parted into Orles Pales Fesses Counterbands or Saltiers The Livery of the most Christian King is of a Blew colour This Monarch has a Physiognomy more Divine than Humane which moves a most profound respect and we perceive in his Countenance a sweetness which tempers his Majesty he is gifted with the Sublime Science of Governing he is another Solomon in rendring the Oracles of his Judgments Mounting on Horfeback he puts himself in the head of his Armies which he conducts as another David or as another Alexander the Great whose presence imports more than Millions of Captains and an entire Army He takes whole Provinces in all seasons and in a day Four Towns together there is little difference with him betwixt the Design and the Execution what has he not done before these important places Lille Mastrich Valenciennes Cambray Gaunt Ipres and others for their reducement He has performed the Office of a General and of a Captain and has toyled as a simple Souldier He has been all at once King General of an Army Marshal of the Camp Sergeant of the Battel Captain Souldier Engineer and Cannoneer He holds all his Enemies play and the more he has the more he puts to the Rout. He has gotten so many Palms and Laurels that the fires of joy and publick rejoycings have shewn themselves throughout the whole Kingdom His Adventures are a Concatenation of Victories Triumphs and Prodigies He is worthy the Empire of the whole Earth the great Armies which he keeps on foot and his yearly Revenue above one hundred Millions render him formidable to the opposers of his glory We are sheltered under his Royal Mantle seme de lis which is so long and large that it is capable of giving shelter and security not only to his own State but also to Forreigners If the Kings of Spain glory in the Title of Catholick the Kings of France merited it before them Philip de Valois was honoured with it An. 1329. for having upheld the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Its Loüs the Great particularly who extends Christianity even into the new world by his care in maintaining Evangelical Labourers where they cry Vive le Roy de France We shall observe here that this custom of crying Vive le Roy comes from the Hebrews when Solomon was proclaimed King by the sound of the Trumpet the people cry'd often Let the King live On this occasion the Romans cryed at the Proclamation of their Emperours The Gods protect and keep you for ever Froissard and Enguerand de Monstrelet cited by Peter de Romuald say that it is not yet 200 years since that in France instead of crying Vive le Roy they cryed Noël Noël that is as though they said Hosanna which signifies Salus Gloria Blessed be him that comes in the Name of the Lord. It 's to the Kings of France that Heaven sent the Holy Vial for their Consecration in the person of Clovis An ancient Poet made these Verses on this Subject Remigius sacris Regem dum lavit in undis Attulit è sacro Chrisma Columba polo. It is those who have the power and vertue of curing the Kings Evil by the touch of their Royal hands and making the sign of the Cross on the Patient and saying The King touches and God cures How redoubtable to Infidels has been the Royal Standart or Banner which some think to have been sent from Heaven to Clovis I shall say no more the splendour of the Majesty of Loüis the Great dazles me I have not the Eyes of an Eagle to look fixtly on the Sun. I shall onely add something concerning the Education of Monsieur le Dauphin The Dolphin of France and his Marriage THis Prince came into the world the first day of November 1661. The King has enlightned the steps of his youth