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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29361	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	Brice, Germain, 1652-1727.	1687 (1687)	Wing B4440; ESTC R3651	187,591	388

great Minister hath undertaken Here is a great number of Workmen who are continually employed some in polishing the Glasses with Sand others with Emery and other in making the Bessil They use no others at present at Paris And these which they make here are as beautiful as those which formerly came from Venice with infinite greater Charges These Workmen are placed in long Galleries round a great square Court. Which Buildings have all the Conveniencies that are requisite being raised on purpose for this Manufacture The Triumphal Arch. Near the place where you see the Triumphal Arch was a magnisick Throne erected for the Queen when she made her Entry in the year 1660. And in regard this place is the highest of all this Quarter this beautiful Structure is placed here though it is not yet raised much higher than the Pedestal One may judge from the Model which is only of Plaster that it will be when finished one of the most Illustrious Monuments of all Europe It is a great Work consisting of two Fronts and three open thorow-Passages between each of which are placed two Corinthian Pillars in all eight on each side and two at the ends or thickness of the Work Over the Entablements or Cornish are placed great Tro●hies of Arms with Slaves in Chains The top of all the Work is flat in the middle of which is placed a great Pedestal and thereupon the Kings Statue on Horseback is to be erected Posterity will learn from the several Ornaments of this Beautiful Structure the glorious Actions of this Kings Life which are represented in Medaillons placed in the spaces between the Pillars This Triumphal Arch will without doubt surpass all those which are to be seen at Rome and other parts of Italy the Remains of Antiquity and we shall see in this more regularity more design and more grandeur The Solidity of the Work will answer the beauty They make use of the hardest and greatest Stones that can be got which are joyned in such manner that you cannot perceive where unless you look very closely and this without cement or any thing like it In fine they have forgot nothing whereby to make it one of the Noblest Monuments of this Age. The Chateau or Royal House of Vincennes Tho we did not intend in this Description to speak of any of the beautiful houses about Paris yet we must not neglect to say something of Vincennes in regard of its near neighbourhood It is at the further end of that great Ally of Trees which has been continued from the Triumphal Arch to this place to serve for a passage hither and makes a pleasing prospect The Building is exactly square compassed about with a Moat very deep It has several Towers of great heighth but one higher than the re●t called the Donjon The first Founder of this House was Philip Augustus who also made the Park about it in which he put a great number of Deer sent him by Henry King of England from Normandy which he then possessed Philip of Valois and King John his Son continued the Work but it was not finished till the Reign of Charles V. called the Wise which put it into the condition as it now is There have been several very considerable additions made and the Court hath often resided here for a long time together The two great Wings of Modern Building on the Park side are of Dorick Pilasters and were designed by Monsieur du Vau. They are Magnificent both without and within and shew very great but that which is most remarkable is the great Gate that leads to the Park of the same Order together with the Statues that stand on each side which are very beautiful The Chappel was founded by Charles V. and the Body of Monsieur the Cardinal Mazarin who died here is reposited in this Chappel till that of the Colledge of the four Nations be finished in which will be raised a Monument for him as he has ordered in his Will You ought to take particular notice of the curious Windows in this Chappel they being highly esteemed in regard neither Italy nor any other parts elsewhere can equal them Many Kings have made their abode here St. Lewis who used oftentimes to devest himself of the State and press of his Attendants at Court that he might have the greater freedom to exercise his Piety would here pass his days of retreat It is said that not long ago there was remaining in the Park a great old Oak under which this good Prince was used to hear their Complaints who resorted to him for Justice and that he himself would use to send abroad his Heralds about the Country to call in all such who had any need of his Authority against the oppression of great men And thus much hath been already well observed by a learned Preacher in an Eloquent Panegyrick which he made on the Feast day of this Saint in the Church of the Grands Jestures dedicated to him At the entrance into the Park is the Menagerie or place where they keep several sorts of Wild Beasts which oftentimes they cause to fight together in a Court in which are Galleries that serve the Spectators to stand in and see without danger Behind the Menagerie over against one of the Park Gates are the Nuns of S. Maud which Nuns were formerly at la Saussaïe beyond the Ville-Juif This House did once belong to Monsieur Fouquet This is all you can see on this side as you return into the Faux-bourg you may take a walk in the Garden of the Piq●epuces which is among the first Houses you come at Here are some Grottoes of Shell-work ●ot ill wrought In their Refectory you will see some Pictures of Monsieur le Brun. This Convent is one of the most pleasing and neatest of Paris tho it be but of this last Age. On the same side as you go on towards the Town you pass before Rambouïllet whose Gardens are extreme pleasant composed of several Walks of C●momil● and a great Parterre in the midst of which is a Fountain Near Reüill● stands the house of Monsieur de Chantelou M●istre d'Hôtel to the King who has the best Pieces of Poussin that are to be seen among others the seven Sacraments of which there are so many Copies and which the Sieun Pesne hath etc●t All knowing men agree without contradiction that these Pieces are the best Paintings and the best designed things of the whole World if we except the Works of some Italian Masters On the other side of the Faux-bourg you ought to view the house of the Sieur Titen the Kings Secretary in the Rüe de Montreüil It is one of the finest you can see whose Master being rich and of a delicate Gust one cannot but imagine that nothing can be there wanting and in truth it is very pleasant Both on the Court-side and that next the Garden the Fronts are very Beautiful In the Rüe de Charonne you will see also an