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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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Church of the holy Sepulchre which was first built for the Pilgrims of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem who were here entertained for some days At present it is a Collegiate-Church the Collation of whose Chanons belongs to the Chapter of Nôtre-Dame The Altar is very handsomly wrought and the Picture over it was Monsieur Colberts gift and Painted by Monsieur le Brun. The Church of St. Leu and St. Giles is a little further In one of the Chappels here is interred the Mother of Monsieur the first President de Lamoignon whose Tomb of Marble is a well wrought thing and designed by Monsieur Girardon on it is a Bas-relief much esteemed The Picture over the great Altar is also highly valued it being the work of one Porbus a famous Painter A little higher is the Hospital of St. Jacques on the other side of the way It was founded by the Alms of certain Citizens who obtained a Licence of Lewis Hutin in the year 1315. It was formerly appointed for the entertainment and lodging of those who passed this way in their Journey to St. James in Galicia At present the Revenue is annexed to the Invalides We say nothing of the Hospital of the Trinity nor of the Church of St. Saviour there being nothing curious in them no more than there is in the Houses of the Penitent Nuns and of those called Filles-Pieu which were built and endowed by St. Lewis yet at the Church of these last you may observe the great Altar which they have built of late after the same manner with that of St. Martin des Champs The Kings Statue In the Hôtel de St. Chaumont where dwells Monsieur the Mareschal de la Feüillade we ought to see the Kings Statue which that illustrious Mareschal hath caused to be made at a great expence representing the King in a Roman Habit Crowned with Lawrel It is about eleven or twelve foot high and but of one block of Marble the greatest that was ever yet seen at Paris The Pedestal on which it must be placed will be very high and on the four sides will be several Bas-reliefs in Brass representing the History of divers great Actions in this Kings Reign as the taking of Bezanzon the famous Passage of the Rhine the general Peace of Nuneguen and the satisfaction which Spain made to the King in the year 1661. in relation to what passed at London about Monsieur the Mareschal de Estrade at that time Ambassador from France into England Four Captives loaden with Chains lie at the bottom on a heap of ancient Arms. But of late the design of the Statue it self hath been changed it will be of Brass and in that habit which he wore at his Coronation and which is always preserved in the Treasury of St. Denis with Immortality behind him Crowning him with Laurel This Monument is of a design most magnifick and the Sieur des Jardins hath continually been employed about it for above three years past It is not yet known in what place this curious Statue will be fixed where it may best be exposed to the publick view and such a place is now under consideration It is said however that Monsieur the Mareschal de la Feüillade who hath been at all this expence to demonstrate to Posterity the Gratitude he hath for the Kings Favours hath very lately for the sum of fourscore thousand Crowns purchased the Hôtel de la Ferte-Senoterre to make a Square in the midst of which he intends to place this Statue Monsieur de Santeüil Chanon of St. Victor one of the ablest Wits of this Age for Inscriptions in Verse is now composing an Inscription for this piece which will acquaint Posterity with the Wonders of the present Reign A little higher you will see a Fountain lately built with these verses engraven upon it Qui fontes aperit Qui slumina dividit Vrbi Ille est quem domitis Rhenus adorat aquis At whose command Rivers to Fountains turn To him doth Rhine submit his Captive Urn. The Gate of St. Denis Of all the new Gates which the Eschevins have built since they first undertook by the Kings Order to beautifie the City of Paris this is the most magnificent It is built upon the same Foundation where the old Gate stood which was very inconvenient This new building is threescore and eleven foot high and of the same wideness The overture of the Gate it self is four and twenty on each side This overture is accompanied on each side with Pyramids charged with Trophies of War under their Pedestals on each hand they have contrived a lesser Gate as an additiâ—n to the great one in the middle overwhose Arch â— a Bass relief representing on the town side the â—assage over the Rhine and on that side next the Fauxbourg the taking of Maestricht and lastly to render the whole more intelligible under each Pyramid these inscriptions are engraven upon Tables of white Marble on the side next the City EMENDATA MALE MEMORI BATAVORUM GENTE PRAEF ET AEDIL. PONI CC. ANN. R. S. H. M. DCLXXII The Dutch being Corrected The Praefect and Aediles caused this to be set up in the year from the Redemption of the World 1672. Quod Diebus vix Sexaginta Rhenum Vahalim Mosam Isolam Superavit Subegit Provincias tres Cepit Vrbes munitas Quadraginta That in scarce sixty days he pass'd the Rhine the Wael the Maes and the Issel That he conquered three Provinces and took forty Walled Towns On the side next the Faux-bourg as follows QUOD TRAJECTUM AD MOSAM XIII DIEBUS CEIPT PRAEâ— ET AEDIL. PONI CC. ANNO R. S. H. M. DCLXXIII In Memory of the taking of Maestricht in thirteen days The Praefect and Aediles caused this to be set up in the year from the Redemption of the World 1673. The Freese on each side hath this Inscription in Letters of Gold LVDOVICO MAGNO To Lewis the Great This Gate is of a most magnificent appearance and is in its kind one of the fairest Works of the World The Top is uncovered after the manner of the old Triumphal Arches which are seen at Rome Monsieur Blondel designed all the new Gates and also all the other Imbellishments that are raised in Paris of late years the Inscriptions also are his which make that Learned Persons ability appear extraordinary in all things In the Faux-burg we ought to see The House of the Fathers of the Mission of St. Lazarus Of late years these Fathers have raised much building for the entertainment of their numerous Society Formerly this was a Maladrery that is an Hospital for Leprous People But that Disease being ceased in this last Age these Lazer houses have been converted to other uses and this here being fallen into the hands of Father Vincent de Paul Institutor of the Mission it is become the head or principal Seat of all his Congregation Whose Institution is to go abroad into remote Villages and there to instruct the poor Peasants and
Painted by Stella an excellent Master This Church was formerly dedicated to St. John Baptist before they brought hither the Reliques of St. Germain in the Reign of King Pepin for fear they should be plundered by the Barbarians if they remained in the Abby of his name which at that time stood without the Town That King himself assisting in carrying the Shrine upon his own Shoulders from the Abby to this place In memory of the Miracle which then happened as they past by the little Châtelet he gave to St. Germains the Estate at Palaiseau six Leagues from Paris Lower in the Street near the Palais are the Barnabites These Religious have been in the Possession of this Priory but since the beginning of this Age before that time it belonged to the Order of St. Benet under the name of St. Eloy And the Revenues are re-united to the Arch-Bishoprick of Paris Their Church is unfinisht The House which they have erected here about four or five years since hath cost them more than 50000. Crowns but it was a very necessary building for before that they had hardly any Lodgings to lye in St. Bartholomew is also over against the Palais to which and to all this Quarter it belongs as the proper Parish Church This was formerly also a Priory of the Order of St. Benet dedicated to St. Magloire but the Monks left it to avoid the Tumult and Noise of the place and removed to the Faux-bourg Saint Jacques near the little Chapel of St. George belonging to them at that time This Translation was made as hath been already said in the Reign of Lewis the Young in the Year 1138. This Benefice was since reunited to the Arch-Bishoprick and the Church made Parochial the Extent of which Parish reaches to the Rüe St. Denis St. Zue St. Giles was once annext to this and we have known a Curate who was possest of both these Benefices but they have been since divided because of the great distance The Church is obscure and ill built The great Altar is of Wainscot Work and of a handsom design There is a Chapel on the right hand in which you may see two Pictures of M. Herault's Work one represents St. William and the other St. Charles Bâ—romeus That over the Altar is of M. Loir's hand and represents St. Catharine kneeling and receiving on her Finger a Ring which is put on by the Infant Jesus The rest is not much remarkable Missire Lewis Servin Advocate General in the Parliament of Paris is interr'd in St. Bartholomew's He was a person who had gain'd by his extraordinary Merit the Respect and Love of all those who knew him and his Reputation was so great throughout all Europe that the most Famous Men of Learning of his time made it their glory to hold a Commerce by Letters with him as we see in their Printed Works where are some Letters of his of wonderful Wit and Genius His inviolable Fidelity for the Right side gain'd him the Confidence of Henry III. who made him his Advocate-General after the dismission of Messire Jaques Faye Despesses which Office he perform'd with a most exemplary Integrity until the Year 1626. in which he died as he was making an Oration to Lewis XIII then sitting on his Throne of Justice in the Parliament The University to whom he had done great Service made him a solemn Funeral at the Mathurins where his Elogium was pronounced in Latin These two Verses may serve for his Epitaph Est satis in titulo Servinus prob jacet ingens In mundo scivit scibile quidquid erat Servin's enough for Epitaph here lies Who knew whatever Science did comprize THE PALAIS IF I had obliged my self in this Collection to speak of the Antiquities of those things which I treat of in Paris I should have had occasion here to mention many particulars but after all it had been only a repetition of what many Authors have already said Those who have the curiosity to be informed in these Affairs let them consult du Tillet Giles Corrozet Father du Breäil in his Theater of Antiquities at Paris M. du Chesne in his Antiquities of Towns and several others who have writ on the French History I will only say to the honour of those who compose this great Body that Pepin Father of Charlemagne did first Institute it and that it was ambulatory till the Reign of Philip the Fair who as Belforest reports was the first who made it Sedentary in quitting his own proper Palace to the Officers of Justice To make it the more spacious he caused to be built the greatest part of the Chambers and the whole work was finisht in the year 1313. Notwithstanding it is certain that there were in this place several great Buildings before that time in regard several Kings made this place their usual abode Clovis himself kept his Court here but St. Lewis dwelt here longer than any for finding the Situation commodious in the middle of Paris he made here several great Works especially the Holy Chapel of which more by and by The chief remarks in this great building is first the great Hall admired by the Cavalier Bernin as one of the handsomest things in France It is built upon the same Plan with another very old which was burnt down in the beginning of this Age in which the Statues of all our Kings were placed round about the Walls as big as the Life In this Hall the Kings did use to receive Embassadors and made publick Feasts on certain days in the year and also here they celebrated the Nuptials of the Sons and Daughters of France At the Marriage of Isabel of France with Richard the Second King of England there was in this place so great a Croud of People that many persons were stifled Charles the Sixth who Reign'd at that time was himself in danger of his Life This Hall is all Vaulted with Freestone with a row of Arches in the middle supported with great Pillars round which are several Shops employed by divers Tradesmen the Dorick Order of Pilasters run round the Hall At one end is a Chapel where Mass is said every day the Procureurs or Attorneys to whom this Chapel belongs have about a year since laid out 40000. Francs to beautifie it as we now see Above this is the Clock according to which the Hearings or Audiences in the several Courts are regulated At the bottom of the Dial you may read this neat Verse made by M. de Montmort one of the French Academicians SACRA THEMIS MORES UT PENDULA DIRIGIT HORAS Justice does guide us as the Ballance this The inside round about this Chapel is adorn'd with Gilding and painted like Marble of various Colours which makes the place very handsom You must not neglect to see the several Chambers where they plead The great Chamber is on one side of the great Hall it was built in the time of St. Lewis who used here to give his Publick Audiences