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A34769	The life of John Baptist Colbert, late minister and secretary of state to Lewis XIV, the present French king done into English from a French copy printed at Cologne this present year, 1695.; Vie de Jean-Baptiste Colbert. English	Courtilz de Sandras, Gatien, 1644-1712.	1695 (1695)	Wing C6599; ESTC R8430	128,103	270

carry on considerable Adventures with more Ease and Security Colbert caus'd a Company for a General Ensuring-Office with Common Stock and Seals to be incorporated and settled in St. Martin's-Street which being in the Middle of the City was the most convenient place for all Parties concern'd There a House was hir'd and Meetings held to treat of the Affairs of the Society with a Permission to the Merchants Adventurers and others of the Cities of Rohan Nantes St. Malo Rochel and other Places who were already engag'd in a like Project to continue the same as before The Edict requires that there be a Principal Stock or Fund of 300000 Livres and that the Company shall consist of Thirty Officers Five of 'em to be elected by Plurality of Voices to execute the Office of Directors for a limited Time Two of the Five to be remov'd six Months after their Election Three more after other six Months and so every six Months successively a like Number being always chosen to succeed 'em so that there are still two or three Directors who cannot be continu'd for above two successive Elections and in that Number there must always be three Traders The Contract of the Society containing 43 Articles was presented to the King by the thirty Associates whose Names are here inserted de Lagni Director-General of Trade Soulete Desvieus le Fevre Rousseau le Javiel Matry de Vitri la Ville T. de Lile Charles le Brun Chauvin Tardif Poquelin Hebert P. Chauvin Cl. le Brun Pasquier Paignon A. Pelletier Molliere Barry Cousinet N. Soullet Gaillart de Loubert Franchepin Herson de la Rivoire de Meur and Ceberet Amidst such a vast multiplicity of Business Colbert was still mindful of his being a Parent of Children as well as a Minister of State On the 21th of January 1671. he marry'd his Daughter Henrietta to Paul de Beauvilliers Duke of S. Aignan Peer of France Knight of the King's Orders first Gentleman of his Majesty's Bed-Chamber Governour and Lieutenant-General of the Town and Cittadel of Havre de Grace Camp-Master of the Regiment of S. Aignan Son of Francis de Beauvilliers Count and afterwards Duke of S. Aignan and of Antoinette de Servien Daughter of Nicholas Servien Counsellour of State and of Mary Groulard The Country of S. Aignan fell to the House of Beauvilliers by the Marriage of Emeri de Beauvilliers Bayliff and Governour of Berry with Loüise de Husson-Tonnere Hitherto Colbert seem'd to have made it a main part of his Care to ease Pleaders by abridging the tedious and wrangling Forms of Law and preventing Abuses but the bringing in of Mark'd Paper and Parchment rais'd the Charge of Suits to so prodigious a heighth that it ruin'd most of those who were engag'd in ' em If it had been only appointed to be us'd for writing the Instruments or Deeds of Notaries and Sentences it might have been look'd upon as an Invention to prevent Ante-dates since by reason of the frequent Alteration of the Marks 't wou'd be hard to find immediately any Paper or Parchment that was in use at the time of the false Date But to what purpose shou'd Petitions Inventories and Replications be written on Mark'd Paper And why shou'd the Grievance be made still more intolerable by obliging Attorneys not to exceed a certain Number of Lines in every Page and even fixing the Number of Words that are to be contain'd in each Line Colbert who was desirous to obtain the Reversion of the Office of Secretary of State for his Eldest Son the Marquess de Seignelay sent him abroad to visit the principal Courts of Europe under the Inspection of Isarn who was recommended to him by Pelisson The Young Traveller took a View of Italy Germany and England and on his Father's Account was receiv'd every where with extraordinary Respect His Tutor Isarn had the Misfortune to die in an Inn at his Return to Paris for the Door of his Chamber being double-lock'd and the Key carry'd away by the Marquess's Servants he was suddenly taken ill and having in vain attempted to come forth he fell down dead as he was endeavouring to call out for Assistance The Marquess at his Return from his Travels eas'd his Father of part of that prodigious Load of Business he was oblig'd to sustain as being entrusted with the Care of all the Home-Affairs of the State The earnest Desire he had to compleat the Reformation of Abuses made him perswade the King to suppress the Courts of Justice that were kept by several Lords in Paris because of the Contests that usually happen'd between the Chastelet and the Judges of those Courts about their Authority and Jurisdiction and besides those Judges were apt to be corrupted as knowing that they were only to execute their Office during the Life of their Masters The Archbishop of Paris had his Bayliff and King's Attorney at Fort l' Evêque the Abbot of S. Germain in his Abbey the Grand Prior of France at the Temple and the Abbess of Montmartre at Ville-Neuve The Chastelet being over-crowded with Affairs after the Suppression of these Courts was divided into two Parts their Jurisdictions being separated by the River The Lieutenant-Civil Lieutenant-Criminal Lieutenant-Particular and King's Attorney of the new Chastelet were to serve by turns from Year to Year in the in the Old and those of the Old to remove to their respective Places in the New Peter Girardin was made Lieutenant-Civil of the New Antony le Ferron Lieutenant-Criminal Lewis de Vienne Lieutenant-Particular Claude Robert King's Attorney James Brichard and Nicholas Meraut Advocates-General The New Chastelet sate at the Abbey of S. Germain in the Hall of the Bailiwick till the Building began at the Old was finish'd after which both Courts sitting in one Place the Advocates and Attorneys cou'd with more Ease and Conveniency go from one Audience to plead at the other While Colbert was busi'd in regulating the State at home a War broke out between France and the House of Austria occasion'd by several Actions of the Dutch to the Prejudice of the Kings of France and England A League was concluded between those two Monarchs by the Mediation of the Dutchess of Orleans and by Virtue of the Treaty which they sign'd the United Provinces were to be divided between ' em But the King of England growing jealous of his most Christian Majesty's Victories who in 40 Days conquer'd 4 Provinces and took 40 Cities withdrew from the League and became the Mediator of a Peace The Conferences were begun at Cologn and interrupted by the carrying away of William Egon of Furstemberg Plenipotentiary of the Elector of that Name the Marquess de Grana having arrested him by the Emperour's Order But the Treaty was again set on foot by the Pope's Mediation and all the Potentates concern'd in the War sent their Plenipotentiaries to Nimmegen the Place appointed for the New Conferences Charles Colbert went thither for France with the Marechal d' Estrade and the Count

Draperies of Brass gilt after the manner of Busts to twelve Heads of Porphyry that represent the Twelve Caesars and to four others of Touchstone or Jett which are the Heads of Illustrious Men. Colbert took care not only of the Building of this Gallery but of all its Ornaments and Furniture as Vessels Boxes of Orange-Trees Cisterns Rows of Stands for Tapers Silver Stands garnish'd with Branches and Candle-sticks of the same Metal Vessels of Porphyry plac'd above and under Tables full of precious Stones which are multiplied by the Glasses that surround the Place And he caus'd all those Pieces of Silver-Work to be wrought and carv'd with inconceivable Care and Exactness From this Gallery the Way to the King's Apartment lies through the Hall of Mars which is full of Pictures representing Battles and Sieges of Towns under Allegorical Figures The Apartment contains a long Row of Pieces and in the first Place the Throne which is Silver and eight Foot high The Seat and Back are supported by Children carrying Baskets of Flowers and on the highest Part of the Seat which forms the Back stands Apollo holding his Lyre and crown'd with Laurel On each side are Justice and Strength sitting and below two Silver Stools with Cushions at the two Angles are Stands for Tapers eight Foot high and four branch'd Candle-sticks supported by Silver Stands six Foot high adorn the four Corners of the Room The next Chamber is that of Mercury then those of Mars and Diana and the Halls of Venus and Abundance The last leads into the Cabinet of Knacks or little Curiosities so call●d because 't is full of 'em 't is of an octangular Figure with Niches in the Angles the Vault is fram'd Dome-wise and the Light is in the Middle All the Work in this Cabinet is of Sculpture of which a great part is of Brass gilt 't is surrounded with Glasses and there are Degrees in the Niches before the Glasses The rest of the Cabinet is full of Brackets which as well as the degrees in the Niches are full of Curiosities as Agats of all sorts and fram'd into a thousand different Figures Crystals of great value for the Fashion in which they are cut little antique Figures of Brass Figures of Gold cover'd with Jewels and a great number of curious works and precious Stones of several Figures There is a very fine Ship of Gold for a device to cover the King's Meat on the Chimney and a large and rich Chest of Drawers in the Middle full of an infinite number of ancient and modern Medals There is also a Table eight Foot and a half long and two and a half broad the Ground is of White Marble on which there is a Map of France compos'd of inlaid Pieces of Marble according to the exactest and latest Astronomical Observations Each Province is distinguish'd by a Piece of Marble of a peculiar Colour and cut exactly according to the irregular Figure which the Frontiers of the Provinces make by entering into one another The Names of the Provinces are mark'd in Capital Letters of Gold and those of the Principal Towns in Italick Characters The most contrary Colours are plac'd next each other to heighten their Lustre thus the Isle of France is of a clear blue Champaigne of red Porphyry Orleanois of Opal and Beauce of a Fueille-mort Colour But the Curiousness of the Workman appears particularly in the Intersections which the Earth makes with the Sea where all the Capes and Bays are observ'd with an unconceivable Exactness and in the Lakes and Rivers that are preserv'd out of the Ground of the Table notwithstanding the Smallness of the Lines which frequently exceed not the breadth of a Thread near the beginning of the Rivers and their winding Course In the Space of white Marble that denotes the Mediterranean there is a Mariner's Compass of different Pieces of Marble curiously wrought and in the other Space that stands for the Ocean there are two Cartridges in one of which is written Carte de la France with those words borrow'd from Virgil which make a kind of Devise of which France is the Body Has tibi exerit Artes The other Cartridge contains the Name of the Person who gave this Map to the King The Ocean is bounded on the North with the nearest Parts of the Coast of England The Border is compos'd of two Fillets of blue Marble one of which is accompany'd with a Moulding or Edging and one of black mark'd with the Degrees of Longitude and Latitude by little oblong Squares of white Marble preserv'd out of the Ground of the Table Above the King's Apartment is that call'd the Marble Apartment which is furnish'd with Ornaments and embellish'd with several Columns all of precious Marble At the End of this is the Cabinet of Baths where nothing appears but Gold Marble and very fine Pictures with all the Ornaments and Conveniencies suitable to such a Place The Dauphin's Apartment is on the left hand opposite to the King 's and compos'd of a like number of Chambers which are all lin'd and overcast with the same sorts of Marble but variously join'd and inlaid The Cabinet of Knacks or little Curiosities that belongs to this Apartment contains three Rooms and a Half-Room and the Floor is inlaid The Painting of the Cieling is by Mignard and there is such a prodigious number of Rarities in this Place that the astonish'd Spectatour can hardly forbear concluding that all the Kingdoms of the East were drain'd to adorn it The Porch that fronts the Middle of the little Court leads into the Park and passing under vaulted Galleries you come to the great Terrass at the Entry of the Garden And here it was that Colbert display'd and even exhausted all the most pleasant and magnificent Productions both of Nature and Art The vast Extent of this stately Edifice comprehending the Front and returning Wing on that side alone which faces the Garden contains above three hundred Toises and more than four hundred and twenty large cross-barr'd Windows twenty outer Buildings with Columns surmounted with Figures and over these Trophies intermixt with Vessels plac'd along the Balisters that surround the whole Structure The Figures that adorn the side which faces the Garden are Apollo and Diana the four Seasons and twelve Months of the Year along the Gallery there are twelve Figures of Rivers and Nymphs of Fountains the Nymph Echo Narcissus Thetis and Galataea with Hebe and Ganymede in two Niches on the Front of the King 's great Apartment on that side where the Grotto was formerly which faces the Northern Parterre are Pomona Vertumnus one of the Nymphs Hesperides the Nymph Amalthaea Thalia Momus Terpsichore Pan Flora Zephyrus Hyacinthus Clitia and in two Niches Musick and Dancing These Figures are on the Wing that belongs to the Dauphin and that call'd the Prince's Wing is adorn'd with Deities and the Virtues which are very numerous by reason of the Length of that Wing over-against which there is another