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A61936	A Succinct description of France wherein is a character of the people, customs, &c. of that kingdom : sent by a gentleman now travelling there, to his friend in England : dedicated to that eminent and learned physician, Dr. Martin Lister, and may serve as a supplement to his Journey to Paris.	Philo-Patriae, Eugenius.	1700 (1700)	Wing S6114A; ESTC R17433	42,222	80

is a much Sweeter so it would be a more Magnificent and better City than that of Paris It lies Commodiously in a Plain flat and level where are no Hills to annoy it and therefore might be made impregnable As for the Fort near St. Austin's Gate The Bastile called the Bastile said to be built by the English when they were Lords of Paris 't is too little to Protect the Town and too low to Command it and serves only for a Prison to the better Sort that have no more Wit than to be Taken Paris is no strong Place and if Henry IV. lay so long before it with his Army it was not because he could not take it but because he would not He was loth as the Lord Biron advised him to receive the Bird naked which he expected ere long with all its Feathers and this Answer he gave the Lord Willoughby who undertook to force an Entry into it The Streets are of a competent breadth The Streets of Paris well Pitch'd under Foot with fair large Pebbles by Philip Augustus Anno 1223. before which time it was miserable Dirty and almost unpassable and as it is now every little Rain makes it very stippery and dangerous and a continuance of warm Weather makes it stink horribly and becomes very Poisonous but whether it proceeds from the nature of the Ground the Sluttishness of the People in their Houses or the neglect of the Scavengers or from all of them I will not determine This I am confident of that the nastiest Lane in London or Westminster is Frankencense and Juniper to the sweetest Streets in Paris The ancient By-word was It stains like the Dirt of Paris but had I power to make a Proverb I would change it into It stinks like the Dirt of Paris and then the By word would be ten times more Orthodox for though I have said something of the strength of the Town and its Fortification without doubt the Venom of the Streets and the Sluttery of the People is a greater security to the Town than all the Ditches Forts Towers and Bulwarks that belong to it 'T was therefore not injudiciously said of an English Gentleman in Railery The strongest City in Europe that Paris was the strongest Town in Europe alluding to the noisom smells for it is a Place of such strange Qualities that you can't live in it in Summer without danger of being Suffocated with stink nor in Winter without myring The Buildings The Houses and Signs in Paris I confess are Handsom and Uniform to the Streetward but London is much finer and the Houses better furnish'd and contriv'd Their Houses are distinguished by Signs as with us and under every Sign is written in Capitals what Sign it is nor is it more than needs for to tell that this is a Cock and this a Bull was never more requisite in the Infancy of Painting than now in this City for so hideously and without Resemblance to the thing signified are most of their Signs that I may without danger say if a Hen would not scratch better Pictures on a Dunghill than they hang out before their Doors I would send her to my Hostess at Tostes to be Executed The chief Artists in Paris The Artificers in Paris are a slovenly Generation in their Trades as well as in their Houses and Barbers Fidlers Dancers and Taylors are the only fine Fellows among them Their most curious Artists are Makers of Combs Tweezers Tooth-Picks and Comb-Brushes Their Mercers are but one degree above Pedlers and Lumbard-street has more Goldsmiths in it than this whole City and Suburbs Merchants they have not many nor wealthy and that one should give twenty thousand Pound with a Daughter as in England was never heard of in this Kingdom The Town subsists by the King's Court How the Town subsists and the great Resort of Advocates and Clients to the Chambers of Parliament and without these two Crutches Paris would get such a vile Halting 't would scarce be able to stand If you credit their Apparel Their Riches and judge of their Estates by their Cloths you would think them worth Millions but alass you don't know them for when a French-man has his best Cloths on he is in the middle of his Estate and carries his Lands and Tenements about him Paris is divided into four parts La Ville Paris consists of four Parts the City lying on this side the River Seine La Universite and that which they call the Cite situate between both the Streams in a little Island and the Suburbs which they call the Faux Bourgs severed a pretty distance from the City and are distinct Bodies from it The greatest part of the Houses in them are Old and without Uniformity The Faux Bourg of St. Jaques is indifferent and excelled by that of St. Germain The Faux Bourg of St. Martin is commended for the great Pest-House in it built by Henry IV. Quadrangularly 'T is large and capacious and at a distance for it is not safe venturing nigh or within it It looks more like a King's Palace than the King's Palace it self The best of all the Suburbs is St. Germain's and has a good Abby in it that maintains 120 Monks 'T was built by Childerick Anno 542. and Dedicated to St. Vincent but since has chang'd its Name to St. Germain from a Bishop of Paris who was buryed in it besides this there is in it a Magnificent Palace scarce to be fellow'd in Europe 't is called Luxenbourg Palace and another call'd the Prince of Conde's Palace In the Ville The Government of Paris or Town of Paris are Thirteen Parish Churches Seven Gates and is Govern'd by two Provosts The Provost de Paris and le Provost des Merchands and the place of Judicature is the Grand Castolet and l' Hostelle de Ville The Provost of Paris has to his Assistance three Lieutenants the Criminal the Civil and the Particuleir which supplies in the absence of the other besides other Officers more than a good many The Provost of the Merchands whose business is to preserve the Privileges of the Citizens is assisted by the two Eschevins as Sheriffs twenty four Counsellors and a Procurator like the Common-Council and Recorder of London whose Habits are half Red and half Sky-Colour'd This Provost is generally belov'd by the Citizens as the Conservator of their Liberties and the others fear'd and hated as the Judges of their Lives and the Tyrants of their Estates In this Ville is also the Kings Arsenal The Arsenal or Magazine of War begun by Henry II. and finish'd by Charles IX to which has been many considerable Additions since Here is also the Place Royal The Place Royal. built in form of a Quadrangle every Square being seventy two Fathoms long the Materials Brick of divers Colours which makes it very pleasant but less durable It is Cloister'd round like the Royal Exchange of London It is situate

in the old Tilt Yard a place famous and fatal for the Death of Henry II. who was slain there with the Splinter of a Launce as he was Tilting with the Earl of Montgomery a Scotchman The University of Paris is seated on the furthermost Branch of the Seine The University is little inferiour to the Ville in bigness but all its Learning is not able to free it from the Noisomness of the other It has but six Parish Churches and eight Gates but many Religious Houses It was Founded by Charles the Great Anno 792. at the perswasion of Alivine an Oxford man Scholar of Venerable Bede who brought with him Rabanus Maurus John Duns Sirnamed Scotus and Claudus who was also called Clement three of his Con-disciples who were the first Readers there and to these four does the University of Paris owe its Original and first Rudiments of Learning Nor was this the first time that England was the Schoolmaster of France for we lent them not only their first Doctors in Divinity and Philosophy but from us also did they receive the Mysteries of their Religion when they were Heathens as you may read in Julius Caesar Com. 6. which is an unquestionable Authority and it had been well for them if they had writ after the same Copy to this Day Colleges they had none Their Colleges till Joan Queen of Navarre Wife to Philip the Fair Built that 1034. which is still call'd the College of Navarre and is the fairest and largest of all the rest This good Example invited French Kings and Subjects to erect more till they had increased the number to fifty two Colleges which it still enjoyeth tho' the odd forty are little serviceable to Learning for in twelve of them only is there any publick Reading either in Divinity or Philosophy Every College has its Rector but his Maintenance is very scanty arising only out of Chamber-Rents like the Principal of a Hall in Oxford and the Building of the Colleges are as mean as their Revenues are poor and indeed all France labours under the want of Encouragements to Learning The College of Sorbonne is the Glory of this University The Sorbonne built by Robert de Sorbonne of the Chamber of Lewis IX None can be admitted into this College but Divines nor none under the Degree of Doctors Their number is about Seventy their Allowance is a Pint of Wine which is almost our Quart and a Quantity of Bread daily Meat they have none allow'd them unless they pay for it These Doctors confer Degrees and in their several turns read six times a day three in the Forenoon and as many in the Afternoon Three Doctors with the Parliament of Paris are the Pillars of the French Liberties and indeed are very jealous of the least Circumstances in which the Privileges of their Nation might be endanger'd and on all occasions will shew they disapprove what they can't remedy This University is Governed by a Rector a Vice-Chancellor four Proctors as many Intranta and the Regent Masters In publick exercises of Learning Precedence the Rector of Sorbonne takes place next the Princes of the Blood before the Cardinals but at other times gives them Precedence but at no time will give it to Archbishops or Bishops of which there was some time a remarkable Instance The King having summon'd an Assembly of twenty five Bishops to consult about Church Affairs they chose the College of Sorbonne for their Senate-house and the Doctor that was to Preach before them beginning his Oration with Reverendissimi Rector vos Amplissimi Praesules the Archbishop of Rouen interrupted him and commanded him to invert his Style which he no sooner obey'd but the Rector presently rises up with Impono tibi silentium which is an Injunction within the compass of his Power Upon this the Preacher being Tongue ty'd the Controversy grew hot between the Bishops and the Rector both Parties eagerly contending for Priority till a Cardinal wiser than the rest desired the Question might be laid aside for that time and that the Rector would permit the Doctor to deliver his Sermon without a Praeludium To which the Rector consented and the Dispute for that time was ended But Salus Academiae non vertitur in istis The Students in this Unisity It would be more for the Honour and Advantage of the University if the Rector would be less mindful of his Dignity and more careful in the Discharge of his Office for certainly the Eye and utmost Diligence of a Magistrate was never more wanting than in this University Penelope's Suitors never behaved themselves so Insolently in the House of Ulysles as the Academicks do in the Streets and Houses of Paris For an Angel given them to Drink they will Arrest whom you please double the Sum and they will break open his House and run him into a Jayle I never heard they could be hired to commit a Murder tho' nothing is more common among them than Killing except it be Stealing in which they have their Captains who command them in their Night-walks and dispose of their Purchases To be a Gipsie and a Student of Paris In what time they take Degrees are almost Synonymous an Ungovernable Rabble whom to call Scholars were to prophane the Title for they omit no Out-rages which possibly can be committed in a Place which consists meerly of Privilege and nothing of Statute Two Years sees them both Novices in the Arts and Masters of them So that by their Degrees they enjoying an absolute Freedom before the Follies and Violences of Youth are subdued they become so Unruly and Insolent as I have told you These Degrees are conferred by the Chancellor who seldom asks any other Questions than his Fees Those being paid he presents the Rakes to the Rector from whom they receive their Letters Patents which is the main part of the Creation in this ill managed University The Isle of Paris seated between the University and the Town The City commonly call'd la Cite is the lesser but much the sweeter and the Richer part of Paris It contains thirteen Churches it is joined to the main Land and the other parts of this Metropolis by six Bridges The Principal Church is Nostre Dame Nostre Dame Church adorn'd with a beautiful Front and two Towers seventy yards higher than the rest of the Church which is an hundred seventy four long and sixty broad At your first entrance on the right hand is the Effigies of St. Christopher with our Saviour on his Shoulders and the Mason as well as the Legend has made him of a Gigantick Stature tho' of the two the Mason's Workmanship is the more admirable his being cut out of one fair Stone and that of the Legendary being patch'd up of many Fabulous and Ridiculous Stories It hath four Ranks of Pillars thirty in a Rank and forty five little Chappels or Mass-Closets built between the outermost Range and the Walls This Church