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profusion of ornament, Supported by
the graces excellently wrought in marble
t as is likewise the heart oSthe great
con •table Anne of .^fortm.r^nci, in an
urn Supported by a wreathed column
of the composite order and of excellent
workmanship. And indeed whereever
the eye is cast either in the chapel or
body of the church, every part presents
Some delightful object in the
monumental way ; aod the very windows
of the chapel of Orleans, representing
Several princes of that house
as big as life, and in the habits os their
times, afford matter os attention to
the curious.
1 have been also at St. Victors an
antient building, founded by Lewis
VI, and celebrated for a good public
library open to strangers three fime5
in a week, givcti by Henry de Boucher.
He e Ires interred Santeui/ the poet ; a
regular, and deserving of greater bono
ars than he met with. lie was not
ambitious'; but was once perfaaded to
Solicit the had ship of has convent, am
fae death of the superior. He lost it,
and repented he ever had offer 'd hiin-
Self: for, said he, < they who would
• have Come to the gallows, if they
< had continued in the world, are most
< likely to obtain the Speriority here :
< and we who go on in the plain way
< of telling our beads, and doing our
^ dury, have n^ chance, having no
< time for the necessary means. His
great abilities as a Laitin poet, may
be gcther'cl Srerm bis inscription on the
bridge or Notre s^anse, as follows,
Seqaoro rum prinrum g'ne otladitUr salt'
Tard^t pr^cr te' ^aeitisS^s
CoptUs a.inre ^scr enr^arn ^bls^' slnr ancpr
(lno^tart ea ahtlees neelit rn re-he moras.
Hna rrarios Sialeae^te canats,
Foras peri grander ^ac nndosinncaa erai.
And as a test of bis ready wit and
happy Sever e.y'iii bis early time of
life, we need only relate his 'reply to
one who bad, the ill manners in bis
company to complain os having been
cheated by a naotik. It was expected
that Sauleuil would have repaid htm
with same violent infult, but on the contrary,
he loerk'd very grave, asked him
how long be had lived in Paris ; and,
understanding that he bad lived there
many years, be told hi m gravely that
be was not to be pitied : for, continued
be, the man who has lived many
years, in a city where there are So
many monks, and is cheated by one of
them, he deserves it. And for the future,
I adviSe you while you continue
here to beware of four things, < A
< woman before ;' < A mule behind ;
< A cart sideway ;' and • A monk eve-
< ry way.
I fear you 'I be tired with Such a catalogue
of Sepulchral monuments :
but I can't conclude without acquainting
you that 1 have viseed the church
of the monastery of la/ de Go'ace,
founded by Arane of Austria, mother to
Lewis ^IV, in gratitude to heaven for
giving her that san, after she badheen
married two ahd twenty years. It is a
noble and elegant pile with a very
grand cupola. Lhe high altar is decorated
at a great expence, and with a
bigb taste : over the potal is this
inscription,
lssu itssesitri^issisre^l SiAers.
and the wliole church, is as it were,
a mausaleum for the hearts of the
princes of the roy al blood of Francs,
vc ho have died in this aid the last century
t amongst the reft l met with that
eof Henrietta Anne Stuart, daug.iter to
King Charles 1, from wnom are descended
by their mothers the prefent
Kings of France and Sardinia, and the
Prince of Asturias. But they that come
to Paris with desire to See the most
curious motiuments of the dead, must
viSit that erected in Sorbonrte by Girardon,
that famous statuary, in memory
and ovei the grave of cardinal Rrch-
/teu; in which they '1 find a Softness and
delicacy not to be described by my
pen. His epitaph is as despicable :
the worst os all ntudern productions
in