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A61210	A description of France in its several governments together with the most considerable cities, sea-ports, and rivers of that kingdom; as also the distances, with the longitudes, and latitudes of each place, &c. with many other remarks, necessary to the knowledge of that kingdom. By J.S. Gent. Illustrated with a map.	J. S.; Hove, Frederick Hendrick van, 1628?-1698, engraver.	1692 (1692)	Wing S51; ESTC R212956	41,764	137

A DESCRIPTION OF FRANCE IN ITS Several Governments TOGETHER With the most considerable Cities Sea-Ports and Rivers of that Kingdom as also the Distances with the Longitudes and Latitudes of each Place c. With many other Remarks necessary to the Knowledge of that Kingdom By J. S. Gent. Illustrated with a Map LONDON Printed for Tho. Minors in the Inner-Temple-Lane 1692. Licensed July the 18th 1692. R. M. To the Illustrious Mainard Duke of Leinster May it please your Grace THE following Treatise would not be so familiar as to presume upon so high a Patronage were not your Grace so immemediately interessed and concerned therein Neither was it without some serious Reslexion and Debate that I could resolve to make this Present to your Grace For though Dedications are lately grown so Epidemical that no Person of Quality either sooner or later can avoid the Infection yet methought your Grace was as much above the common disturbances that attend your Quality as you are exalted above the common Level of it But my Lord you are now going General of an Expedition in whose very Name encounter an admirable Policy and a certain Glory for the Service of which was principally intended this ensuing Description This it is which made me conclude I should have done a great Injustice had I put this Tract under any other Protection than yours And indeed at whose Feet can a Subject of this Nature be so fitly placed as at your Grace's You being so experienc'd a Commander and about to perform such vast important Actions My Lord it would but argue me of the meanest Impertinence to pretend here an Harangue of those Encomiums you deserve For he who acquaints the World whose Son you are has said enough to those who do not know you Your Grace being the best Panegyrick upon your self The Son of the Great the Immortal Schomberg whose stupendious Actions and invincible Courage together with his unspotted Zeal for the most rational Religion of the World at a time when the Thorns of Persecution forced him from his Estate and Dignities have rendred him even above the Turennee's the Montecuculli's and the Condees that is to say the Caesars of our Age. Go on my Lord and prosper And whilst your glorious Father's Blood inheres in you where 's the considering Man that questions Victory ordares dispute Success Methinks I hear the Men of Gaul declare amazed upon the Notice of your Landing He comes 't is Schomberg's Son why do we defer to yield We read in English History of the prodigious Actions of the Mighty Talbot whose very Name at last was of sufficient force to defeat whole Armies The Case being parallel to the great Exploits of your Renowned Father of whom your Grace is a compleat Resemblance how can it be that we should fear a Victory The Present that I make bold to send your Grace is a Geographical Description of France considered in its several Provinces the most considerable Cities and Sea Ports their Distances one from another their Longitudes and Latitudes what they are most remarkable for together with many other observable things that necessarily occur in a Treatise of this Nature But lest I prove tedious I will conclude this Epistle with assuring you that not only this Book but the Author of it are both Dedicated to your Grace's Service with hearty Prayers for the Success of your Expedition by him who in all imaginable Humility subscribes himself My Lord Your Grace's Most Obedient Servant J. S. ERRATA PAge 25. line 19. after Besanson read and Cambray p. 27. l. 15 for Boulonis r. Boulonois p. 35. l. 4. r. Vexin Normand p. 37. l. 23. before King r. the and l. 26. for Government r. Governour p. 47. l. 8. for Rhetelor r. Rhetelois p. 52. for Bree r. La Brie p. 57. l. 10. for more r. most p. 58. l. 19. r. Families p. 61. l. 10. r. Poitou p. 65. l. 11. r. Bretagne p. 66. l. 1. r. covered with Slat p. 83. l. 14. r. Charente and l. 26. after Guyenne r. is p. 90. l. 3. after Modern r. Authors p. 93. l. 2. r. advancing p. 101. l. 14. r. It should not be p. 108. l. 5. r. in one part p. 109. l. 18 after Ven●issin r. which encircles p. 112. l. 1 r. most p. 115. l. 9. r. Roman AN INTRODUCTION TO THE Geographical Description OF FRANCE THE Romans gave the Name of Gaul to that extent of Land which is between the Alpes and the Pyrenaeans the Mediterranean-Sea the Ocean and the Rhine At present with an exception of the Low-Countries and some other Parts which do as it were depend upon the Empire of Germany it is called France from the Name of the French who made it subject to their Power Julius Caesar had finished his Conquest of it about Forty Eight Years before the Nativity of Jesus Christ insomuch that when the French had absolutely established themselves therein it had been near Five Ages under the Laws of that Empire Now without reckoning the Country which the Gauls had subdued beyond the Alps from these Mountains as far as the little River of Rubicon and which was named Cisalpine Gaul in respect of the Romans It was first divided by Augustus into Four Parts Narbonoise Gaul which they called Province because they had subdued it first and reduced it into a Province Aquitanick Gaul Gaul Celtick and Gaul Belgick To these three last they gave the Name of Gaul Cheveliie and when Gaul was absolutely spoken Celtick was understood Then by Succession of time and under divers Emperors it was divided again into Seventeen Provinces to wit Five Viennoises in which number were computed the First and Second Narbonoise Three Aquitains Five Lyonnoises comprehending the Sequanoise Four Belgick Two of which were called German because some People of Germany had long since inhabited those parts and Two Belgick properly so called Each of these Provinces had its Metropolis to wit the Five Viennoise Vienna Narbonne Aix Tarentaise and Embrun the Three Aquitains Bourges Bourdeaux and Eaulse the Five Lyonnoises Lyon Rouën Tours Sens Besancon The Two German Mentz and Cologne the Two Belgick Triers and Rheims Under these Seventeen Metropolitans there was above a Hundred Cities or Towns Heads of People in which the Church has since constituted Episcopal Sees Under these Cities there was a much greater number of other Towns which they called Oppida When the Romans conquered Gaul there was no less computed than Twelve Hundred with Walls but they pulled down the Enclosures of the greatest part or let them fall to ruin As to the Governments of these Seventeen Provinces Six of them were Consular and Eleven under Presidents commissioned by the Emperor Constantine the Great put Counts into the Cities and Dukes into some of the Frontier Towns Judiciary matters were performed according to the Roman Law but some Municipal Customs it 's probable were kept up They were not much disturbed by the Soldiery because the Legions lived with sufficient

Thirteenth but we must now make an addition of Lorrain and the French-County which are in its dependance so that we will divide it in Fourteen principal parts Four of these Governments to wit Picardy Normandy the Isle of France and Champagne are Situated to the North of the Loire and about the Seine except the First which is more Northerly than the other Three Those of Bretagne Orleanois Bourgogne and Lyonois are about the Loire and the other Four are to the South of the same River to wit Guyenne and Languedoc about the Garomne Dauphine and Provence to the East of the Rhone one towards the North and the other towards the South Lorrain and the French-County are directly Scituated to the East of this Kingdom The Capital City of France is Paris Capital seated in the midst of the Isle of France upon the River Seine It passes for a Vast Rich and Populous City one of the Noblest in Christendom and a Parliament City subject to the king of France and his ordinary Seat It is an Archbishops See and is adorned with a Famous university and Three illustrious Academies embelished with a great number of Magni●cent Churches and Stately Buildings about Two Hun●●●● and Eight Miles almoit S. E. of 〈◊〉 The French are full of Spirit Manners active and ingenious enough in Arts and Sciences polite and agreeable in Convrsation complaisant to the Ladies and courteous to Strangers but withal very unconstant and very rash ut sunt subita Gallorum ingenia is one of the Remarks of Caesar A French Gentleman was one Day speaking advantagiously of the Free Genteel Humour of his Countrymen to an Italian and said that there was no Nation could deny but that the French were the most tractable and sincere People in the World to which the Italian answered that the thing from which he pretended to draw all his Advantages passed with them for a weakness and an effect of their imprudence I don't admire replied the French-man coldly that you make so disadvantagious a Judgment of our best Qualities because your Politicks believe that without being a Cunning Knave one can never make a Gallant Man As to the Persons of this People they are commonly of a Middle Stature and for the most part of a slight making their Complexion being generally hot and moist which makes them very subject to the heats of Lust and easily inclinable to those Diseases which are its Concomitants Their chief Exercises are Tennis and Dancing Exercise to the last of which they are so generally affected that were it no● so much exclaimed against by their rigid Ministers it is thought that many more of the French Catholicks had been of the Reformed Religion For so extreamly are they bent upon this Diversion that no interruption whatsoever neither Age Sickness nor even Poverty shall retain their Heels when they hear the Musick Their Language is very smooth and pleasant Language but rather Elegant than Copious and therefore much troubled for want of Words to find out Periphrases besides that a great deal of it is expressed in the Action the head and Shoulders move as significantly towards it as the Lips and Tongue and he that pretends to speak it with a good grace must have somewhat in him of the Buffoon It is enriched with variety of Proverbs which is a great help to the French Humour of Scoffing a Language so naturally disposed for Courtship as makes all the people Complemental The Laws of this Kingdom are either Temporary Laws and alterable at pleasure or Fundamental which neither King nor parliament as they say can alter Of this last fort the Principal are the Salick Law and the Law of Apennages By the Salick Law the Crown of France may not descend unto the Females or fall from the Launce to the Distaff as their Saying is which Law one undertaking to justify out of Holy Writ urged that Text of St. Matthew where it is said Mark the Lillies which are the Arms of France and see how they neither labour nor spin By that of the Apennage the younger Sons of the King are not to have a share in the Kingdom with their Elder brother which Law was made by Charles the Great before whose time we find the Children of the Kings stated in their several Thrones and the Realm divided amongst them into many Kingdoms But by this Law they are to be entituled to some Dutchy or County with all the Rights and pro●ts belonging thereto all matters of Regality as Levying Taxes Coynage and the like excepted only which upon the failing of the Masculine Line return again to the Crown The Name thereof derived from Abannage a German Word signifying a Portion The King of France has the Titl● of Most Christian King and Elde● Son of the Church the Eldest Son o● the king is called the Dauphin and i● the presumptive Heir of the Kingdom● The Dutchies of Orleans Anjou Alencon and Berry as also the Earldom o● Evreux have been the ordinary Titles of the other Sons of France The number of the Peers of France formerly consisted but of Twelve viz. The Archbishop and Duke of Rheims The Bishop and Duke of Lâon The Bishop and Duke of Langres The Bishop and Earl of Beauvais The Bishop and Earl of Noyon The Bishop and Earl of Chaalons The Duke of Burgundy The Duke of Guyenne The Duke of Normandy The Earl of Toulouse The Earl of Champagne The Earl of Flanders The Six First were Ecclesiasticks and the rest Laicks each with his particular Function The Institution of these Twelve peers is attributed by some to Charlemain by others to Hugues-Capet the Number of them is at present no more in use except on the Coronation-day and that of the Laick Peers is much greater than it was France is governed by an Absolute King Government The Crown is hereditary to his Family and is so far Particular that the Legitimate Males alone can pretend to it by the Institution of the Salick Law which absolutely excludes Females as we have intimated before One may reckon at present Twelve Paliaments in the States of France since the Conquest of the French County One may also reckon Twenty Three Generalties or Offices of the Exchequer Twenty Five Mints and Fourteen Universities Whose Seats I shall observe in the particular Discourse of each City where they are established It is pretended that the Parliament of Paris was Instituted by Pepin Paris Father of Charlemagne and that it was ambulatory till Philip the Fair made it fixt in 1302. The Courts of Justice of the Isle of France Champagne the whole Government of Orleanois and all Lyonois are under its Jurisdiction That of Toulouse Toulouse was Instituted b● the same Philip the Fair in the sam● Year and was not fixed till under Charle● the Seventh in 1443. That of Rouen Rouen was Instituted by th● same Charles the Seventh in the sam● Year and was fixed in 1503. unde●

Country and remarkable for the notable Resistance it made against the whole Forces of Lewis the Thirteenth in the last Civil Wars concerning Religion It is about 37 Miles from Arles 5● from Orange and 60 from Narbon Lon. 22.52 Lat. 43.8 Le Puy IS accounted the greatest City of Languedoc after Toulouse The Bishop who stiles himself Earl of Vellay where of it is Capital depends immediately o● the Pope and is subordinate to 〈◊〉 Archbishop It stands on the River Loyre about 30 Miles from Mende 56 from Viviers and 68 from Lyons Lon. 22.58 Lat. 44.33 Mende and Viviers in the Province of les Cevennes are remarkable for nothing but their Episcopal Sees the Bishops whereof are stiled Earls 11. Of the Government of DAUPHINE THis Province which made part of the ancient Allobroges was afterwards comprised in the Kingdom of Burgundy which Charlemagne joyned to the other Members of France The Emperor Henry the Fourth being at Variance with Pope Gregory the Seventh was so persecuted by his own Children that divers Lords taking the Advantage of their Divorce and deriding him as a deprived King carried away each a Piece of this Kingdom O●●o Earl of Flanders had Franche-County Berald of Saxo●y possessed himself of Savoy Provence fell to B●enger and Dauphiné to the Occupation of Guigue le Gras who gave to it this Name Name upon the account of Dauphin Earl of Viennois whose Daughter had espoused his Son It should be incongruous methinks Original of the Name of Dauphin to intimate here the original of the Name of Dauphin which has been the Title of the Eldest Son of France for above 300 Years Imbert or Humbert Earl Dauphin of Viennois having lost his Son in the faral Battel of Crecy and unhappily let his last Child fall out of a Window of which he dyed seeing himself insulted by Amedée Earl of Savoy his irreconcilable Foe and finding himself unable to resist him resolved to procure him a more powerful Neighbour For this effect he offered his Country to Philip of Valois King of France for him and his Successors upon condition that the Eldest Son of France should bear the Title of Dauphin and that his Arm● should be quartered with those o● France Which Proposal was accepted of by the King to the great Displeasure of the Savoyard So Charles the Fifth the Grand-Son of Philip was the first that bore the Name of Dauphin in the Year 1350. Dauphiné extends it self from East to West Extent about 129 English Miles from Pignerol to Valence And 111 from North to South from Lanieu upon the Rhône in Bresse to le Buis in las-Baronnies It is bounded in the North by Bresse and Savoy Bounds In the East by Piémont In the South by Provence And in the West 't is separated by the Rhône from Languedoc and Lyonnois The Soil Quality although very Mountainous produces excellent Wine and very good Corn in some Places as in those Parts about Greenoble and Die and along the Rhône but in general it brings forth Rye Oats Barley and a little Wine There is one thing here particular enough in respect of a certain Hol● which is in a great Rock near Nions There goes out a Wind which one is scarce sensible of when near it and even boisterous at 20 or 30 Paces distance It s greatest Rivers are the Isere Rivers which receives the Drac below Grenoble and the Durance which takes its Rise from hence and runs toward Provence Dauphine is divided into Upper and Lower The First Division which is towards the East comprehends Gresivaudan Diois lés-Baronies Gapensois Ambrunois and Briansonois The other which extends it self towards the West along the Rhône comprises Viennois Valentinois and Tricastin Grenoble UPon the River Isere in Gresivandan is the Capital City of the whole Country in Latin Gratianopolis the chief Seat heretofore of the Accusiani 'T is a very ancient populous and well-built City embellished by the Emperour Gratian who gave it its Name It is much resorted to by the Noblity upon the account of the Court of parliament erected here in the Year 1453. It has been an Episcopal See for above 1200 Years and has besides a Generality and a Mint Equally distant viz. abou 30 Miles from Vienné Die and Valence Lon. 25.4 Lat. 44.54 Ambrun THE Capital of Ambruncis an Arch-Bishops See seated upon a very high Rock in the midst of a pleasant Valley surrounded with Mountains under which runs the River Durance The Arch-Aishop here shares the Jurisdicton with the King insomuch that their Judges in the Bayliwick are alternative The hilly Country hereabouts is the highest of France About 48 Miles from Pignerol 46 from Susa c. Lon. 26.5 Lat. 44.10 Vienne SEated upon the Rhône is a famous and very ancient City as one may see by divers Monuments of Antiquity whose Vestigia are still in being It is honoured with an Archiepiscopal See and a Bayliwick It had a Bridge over the Rhône which is broken and whose Passage is very dangrrous for Boats It is situated in the lower Dauphiné and stands about 17 M. from Lyons 43 from Grenoble and 68 from Geneva Lon. 14.8 Lat. 45.7 Valence UPon the River Rhône is a handsome and populous City the Capital of Valentinois Its Bishoprick is united to that of Die The Bishop qualifies himself Bishop and Earl of Valence and Die and the Bayliwick is depending upon this Prelate It has given honorary Title to two Persons of more Fame than Honour The first of which was Caesar Borgia the Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth who was made Duke of Valentinois by Charles the Eighht The other Madam Diana the Mistress of Henry the Second who governed the Affairs of France under him and honoured with the Title of Dutchess hereof About 38 Miles from Vienne and 43 from Grenoble Lon. 27.12 Lat. 44.32 Brianson THE Capital of Briansonpis is seated upon a very high Mountain It is a Bishops See and a Bayliwick It stands about 22 Miles from Ambrun and 36 from Pignerol Lon. 26.22 Lat. 44.30 Saint-Pol-Trois-Châteaux is the Capital of Tricastin It is a flourishing City seated in the lower Dauphiné upon an advanced Cliff near the Rhône It is a Bishops See who stiles himself Earl under the Arch-Bishop of Arles It stands about 16 Miles from Orange and 72 from Grenoble Lon. 24.2 Lat. 43.53 Gap THe Capital of Gapensois is adorned with an Episcopal See and a Bayliwick It s Bishop is qualified Earl It has a very strong and noble Cittadel It stands about 18 Miles from Ambrun and 23 from Sisteron Lon. 25.40 Lat. 44.6 Die upon the Drome was an ancient Colony of the Romans heretofore the See of a particular Bishop but at present joyned to that of Valence It is seated in the lower Dauphiné and stands about 36 Miles from Grenoble Le Buis upon the Aurese is the Principal City of les Barronies and a Bayliwick 12. Of the Government of PROVENCE THis