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A70100 Voyages and travels over all Europe Containing all that is most curious in that part of the world. In eight tomes. Done out of French. Fer, Nicolas de, 1646-1720. 1693 (1693) Wing F726; ESTC R216771 137,558 320

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whither the King goes usually twice a Month to spend two or three days during which time he gives Audience to no body unless it be to his Ministers and those that are sent for to Council which his Majesty holds there concerning the most Important Affairs of State Next to Versailles St. German on Laie may dispute for Priority before all the other Royal Houses This place is famous for the Birth of Lewis XIV upon the 5th of Septemb. 1638. He was baptiz'd in the Old Castle the 21st of April 1643. Besides the Regularity and Magnificence of the Castle there are the Gardens and Grotto's to be seen adorn'd with a Thousand Figures of Water Among the rest in one of these Grotto's there is an Orpheus playing upon his Harp and with the motion of his Head and his Body keeping time to his Instrument He is also attended by a great number of Beasts that follow him as being enchanted with the Melody of his Harp which also draws after him Rocks Trees and Plants There is likewise Paradise Hell the Sea and the Four Elements so livelily represented that you would think your self in some Enchanted Place About a League from St. Germans upon one side of Paris you meet with the Traytors Wood divided into two parts by a spacious High-Way The Branches which you break off from one side of this Wood sink but those which you break off from the other side swim in the Water In this Wood it was that the Perfidious Ganelon contriv'd his Treason against the Peers of France and all the great Captains of Charlemagne which was put in Execution at the Battel of Roncevaux so fatal to France in the Passage of the Pyreneans St. Clou is another very beautiful Royal Seat belonging to Monsieur the King 's only Brother It stands upon a Hill near the Banks of the River Seine almost half way between Paris and Versailles The Paintings are very Noble the Furniture very Rich and the Cabinet of China wherein there are an infinite number of Curiosities and vast Riches is worthy the Grandeur and Magnificence of the Prince to whom it belongs As for the Castle of Madrit Francis I. caus'd it to be built in the Wood of Boulogne in memory of his being carry'd a Prisoner into Spain to let the Spaniards understand that he held it for no shame to have been made a Prisoner of War at the Head of his Army which had never befall'n him had he contented himself to Command in his Cabinet as the Kings of Spain do They who believe this Castle to be built after the same form as that where this Monarch was kept in durance are much deceiv'd for it is little or nothing like it It is nothing so magnificent now as formerly and the little care that is tak'n to repair it shews that the King has no great Fancy for the Seat nor minds whether it go to ruin or no. The Castle of Vincennes is considerable as being the Place where Prisoners of War of great Quality are Confin'd and many times Prisoners of State witness the Princes of Conde and Conti and the Duke of Longueville in the Time of Cardinal Mazarin It is very large and flank'd with Eight great Towers Here are kept the Chains of the Streets of Paris which Charles VI. took away after he had chastiz'd that City for her Rebellion Fountainbleau is another Royal Seat so call'd from the great number of Springs in that place It lyes about Twelve Leagues from Paris and in regard it is a Country proper for Hunting the Court spends a great part of the Autumn in this Place This Castle is very large as being said to contain Nine hundred Chambers Halls Cabinets or Galleries where Art has quite exhausted her self to render every thing worthy the Residence of our Monarchs At Fontainbleau it was where Marshal Biron was disarm'd by the King's Order and where Cardinal Perron and the Sieur du Plessis-Mornai met in the Presence of Hen. 4. to Dispute upon Matters of Religion which drew thither the most Learned of both Parties and 't is said that when the two Disputants could not agree the King addressing himself to the Cardinal ask'd him Whether all those that were separated from the Roman Church were damn'd His Eminency and the rest of the Catholick Doctors assur'd him That there was nothing more certain After which the K. demanding from those of the Protestant Party whether it were a Point of their Doctrine that there was no Salvation for those that were not of their Communion They made answer 'T was none of their Opinion for that they thought the Mercy of God might extend to all Men. That being so reply'd the King ' t is my Judgment to choose the Certainty before the Vncertainty and so turn'd Roman Catholick Chantilli is a fair Seat belonging to Monsieur the Prince whither the Court often goes for the Recreation of Hunting It is an Epitome of Art and Nature 'T is observ'd that Hen. IV. being to Answer a Letter which he had receiv'd from the K. of Spain cramm'd full of Titles not only of the Kingdoms which the Kings of Spain and their Ancestors possess'd but of those they never had as also of Territories in the New World not yet discover'd took upon him no other Titles but only Citizen of Paris and Lord of Chantilli And there is much the same Story of Francis I. who writeing to Charles V. fill'd the first Page with only these words repeated King of France King of France adding only at the lower end Lord of Vauvre and Gonesse I shall say nothing of an Infinite Number of other Beautiful Seats and Houses of Pleasure in the Parts adjoyning to Paris as Ruel Meudon Conflans Seaux c. which are all fit for the Entertainment of Kings whether in respect of their Bigness or Magnificence It remains that I now say something of St. Denis the Burying-place of our Monarchs for which I design a particular Chapter Only before I conclude this I must not omit to tell yee that there is at Alincourt near Paris the Tomb of a Mother and her Children that gave Occasion to this Epitaph Here lyes the Son here lyes the Mother Here lyes the Daughter with the Father Here lyes the Sister and the Brother Here lyes the Husband here the Wife All but Three Body 's on my Life To Expound this Riddle you must know That a certain Young Stripling importun'd his Mothers Maid to grant him you may guess what who told her Mistress the Mother of the Young Man and a Widow She order'd the Servant to give him a Meeting in her Chamber where the Mother put her self in place of the Maid and having had the Company of her Son without discovering who she was at Nine Months end was brought to Bed of a Daughter which she put out till she came to such an Age and then sent for her home The Son in the mean time had been Travelling for several Years but
then returning Home and finding the Young Virgin which his Mother said was an Orphan to be very pretty Marry'd her and so of his Daughter and his Sister made her his Wife The Young Couple dy'd before the Mother who then discover'd the Secret and would needs be Interr'd in the same Tomb. CHAP. XXII Of St. Denis ST Denis is a small City in the Island of France Six Miles from Paris It was formerly call'd Catuliaca but was call'd St. Denis from St. Denis the Areopagite who being Beheaded at Montmartre carry'd his Head in his Hands as far as Catuliaque that is to say about a League and a half King Dagobert Erected a very stately Church in this place Three hundred Foot in Length Two hundred Broad and Fourscore Foot High supported by Sixty Pillars 'T is now a Royal Abby of the Benedictin Order wherein are kept all the Ornaments for the Coronation of our Kings which do not a little augment the Lustre and Riches of the Treasury of this Abby The Church is also Famous for being the Burying-Place of our Monarchs and of all the Royal Family Here follows a Catalogue of the Kings and Queens whose Tombs are to be seen in the Church of St. Denis Dagobert who dy'd in the Year 638 Clovis the Second 656 Clotaire III. 664 Thieri I. 690 Clotaire IV. 720 Childeric III. a Monk Pepin the Short 768 Charles the Bald. 877 Lewis III. 882 Charlemane 884 Eudes 898 Hugh Capet 997 Robert 1033 Henry I. 1060 Philip I. 1131 Lewis VI. 1137 Philip II. 1223 Lewis VIII 1226 Lewis IX Sirnam'd the Saint 1270 Philip III. 1285 Philip IV. 1314 Lewis X. 1316 John I. 1316 Philip V. 1322 Charles IV. 1328 Philip VI. de Valois 1350 John II. 1364 Charles V. 1380 Charles VI. 1422 Charles VII 1461 Charles VIII 1498 Lewis XII 1515 Francis I. 1547 Henry II. 1559 Francis II. 1560 Charles IX 1574 Henry III. 1589 Henry IV. 1610 Lewis XIII 1643 A Catalogue of the Queens that lye Buried at St. Denis's Nantild the Wife of Dagobert Bertha the Wife of Pepin Hermintrude the Wife of Charles the Bald. Constance the Wife of Robert Margaret the Wife of St. Lewis Isabel the Wife of Philip III. Joane of Eureux the Wife of Charles IV. Joane the Wife of Philip VI. Joane Queen of Navarre Joane Wife of Charles VI. Marie Wife of Charles VII Clandia Wife of Francis I. Blanch Second Wife of Philip VI. Ann of Bretaigne Wife of Lewis XII Catherine de Medicis Wife of Hen. II. Margaret Queen of Navarre Mary de Medicis Wife of Hen. IV. Ann of Austria Wife of Lewis XIII Henrietta Maria Queen of England Mary Teresa of Austria Wife of Lewis XIV And Marie Ann Christina Victoria Dauphiness of France who deceas'd in 1690. I do not here insert the Tombs of the Children of France nor those of the Princes and Princesses of the Blood nor of those of the Bodies of the Saints that lye in this Church for fear of being too tedious believing moreover that the Reader will take more delight to peruse the following Inventory of the most remarkable things that are to be seen in the Treasury of St. Denis's which makes so great a noise in the World and which alone draws thither such an infinite number of Forreigners Before I ascend into the Room wherein this Treasure is lockt up there is to be seen above the Chief Altar a Cross of Gold seven foot high enrich'd with Pretious Stones and Oriental Pearl A Table of Gold five foot long and three foot high in the middle of which is to be seen our Saviour in Relief together with six Apostles and four Angels the whole of Gold enrich'd with Pretious Stones and Oriental Pearls a Sea Agate a Topaze and two admirable Grenates Another Cross of Gold six foot high adorn'd with Pretious Stones So soon as you come into the Great Room entring in upon the Right you meet with in the first Cup-board or Press A great Cross of massy Gold cover'd with Rubies Saphirs Emeraulds and Oriental Pearls and under the Croison a piece of Wood which as they say is a piece of the Real Cross about a foot and a half long A Shrine of Gold enclosing a Crucifix made of the same Wood by the hands of Clement III. The Oratory of Philip the August enrich'd with an Infinite Number of Pretious Stones which encloses Thirty four sorts of Reliques among which are reck'nd one of the Thorns of our Saviour's Crown The Spunge with which they gave him Vinegar and Gall A piece of his Garment A Viol full of the Blood and Water which issu'd from his Side and some of the Myrrh which the Magi offer'd One of the Nails with which our Saviour was fasten'd to the Cross And Image of the Holy Virgin gilt and enamell'd which holds in one hand a Shrine containing her own Hair and some pieces of her Garments Another of the same holding another Casket wherein are preserv'd the Linnen made use of in Burying our Saviour An Image of the same Metal of St. John the Evangelist with one of his Teeth A Shrine of Gold containing as they assure us the Bones of several Saints An Arm-bone of St. Eustachius Such another Bone of St. Simeon in a Shrine of Gold enchac'd with Pretious Stone One of the Pitchers of Cana in Galilee The two Crowns made use of at the Coronation of Hen. IV. one of which is of Gold the other enamell'd The Scepter and the Hand of Justice in Silver of the same King This Hand of Justice is a hand at the top of a Rod held by the King as a Mark of Soveraignty Two costly Mitres of Abbots one of which is adorn'd with an Embellishment of Pretious Stones upon a Ground of Pearls A fair Crosier once an Abbots and a Battoon of Silver gilt enrich'd with Pretious Stones In the Second Press or Ambrie An enamell'd Image of St. Hilary enrich'd with Pretious Stones and Pearls A great Cross of massy Gold enrich'd with Grenates Saphirs and Pearls A Shrine of Silver gilt with a Finger Flesh and Bone of St. Bartholomew Another of the same with the Shoulder Bone as they say of John the Baptist A Cross silver gilt with a piece of the real Cross An Image silver gilt of St. Denis of Areopagus Another of the same of St. Nicholas Another of the same of St. Katherine An Eye of St. Leger Bishop of Autun A Shrine silver gilt enclosing the Reliques of the Prophet Isaiah Another of the same with a Bone of St. Pantaleon Another of Chrystal with the Hair and Garments of St. Margerie Another of Silver containing the Leprosie which Christ took from the Leper mention'd in the Gospel An Eagle of Gold enrich'd with Pretious Stones which serv'd for a Clasp for K. Dagobert's Cloak Dagobert's Scepter of Gold enamell'd An Oriental Jacinth The two Crowns of Lewis XIII the one of Gold the other enamell'd An enamell'd Crown made use of at the Funeral Pomp of Ann of