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8 The interior balcony above the entrance was also decorated with the monograms <strong>of</strong> Henri IV<br />

<strong>and</strong> Maria de’ Medici. For the church, see Ballon, Henri IV, 186-90; Dumolin <strong>and</strong> Outardel,<br />

Eglises de France, 126-28.<br />

9 Louis XI requested that the founder <strong>of</strong> the order come to France with the hopes that St. Francis<br />

<strong>of</strong> Paula could cure him. For the history <strong>and</strong> establishment <strong>of</strong> the order in France, see Pierre<br />

Helyot, Dictionnaire des ordres religieux; ou, histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et<br />

militaires, 4 vols. (Paris: Chez l'Éditeur, 1847-1859), 2:981-96; Odile Krakovitch, "Le couvent<br />

des Minimes de la Place-Royale," Fédération des Sociétés Historiques et Archéologiques de<br />

Paris et Ile-de-France 30 (1979): 98-111; J. S. Whitmore, The Order <strong>of</strong> Minims in Seventeenth-<br />

Century France (The Hague: Martinus Nijh<strong>of</strong>f, 1967), 1-7.<br />

10 Krakovitch, "Minimes," 108-10.<br />

11 For this characterization <strong>of</strong> the Minims, see Whitmore, Minims, 6.<br />

12 For the church <strong>of</strong> the Minims at the Place Royale, see Biver, Abbayes, 425-32; Allan Braham<br />

<strong>and</strong> Peter Smith, "Mansart Studies V: The Church <strong>of</strong> the Minimes," Burlington Magazine 107<br />

(1965): 123-32; Edouard Jacques Ciprut, "Documents inédits sur l'ancienne église des Minimes<br />

de la Place Royale," Bulletin de la Société de l'Histoire de l'Art Français (1954): 151-74;<br />

Krakovitch, "Minimes," 87-258; Victoria Sanger, "Le 'portail' de l'église des Minimes, 1657-<br />

1665," in François Masart: le génie de l'architecture, ed. Jean-Pierre Babelon <strong>and</strong> Claude<br />

Mignot (Paris: Gallimard, 1998), 233-37.<br />

13 For the letters patent, see Krakovitch, "Minimes," 110. For Maria de’ Medici repaying the<br />

Minims the amount it cost to buy the l<strong>and</strong>, see Biver, Abbayes, 425; Jacques-François Blondel,<br />

Architecture françoise, ou recueil des plans, élévations, coupes et pr<strong>of</strong>ils, 4 vols. (Paris: Jombert,<br />

1754), 2:145; Piganiol de la Force, Description historique 4:438-39.<br />

14 For the placing <strong>of</strong> the first stone, see Annales de l’Ordre des Religieux minims et en particulier<br />

de la Province de France, Bibliothèque nationale, ms. Fr. 23126; reprinted in Ciprut,<br />

"Documents inédits," 157-58. For the health concerns, see Hilarion de Coste, Les Eloges et les<br />

vies des reynes, des princesses, et des dames illustres en pieté, en Courage & en Doctrine, qui<br />

ont fleury de nostre temps, et du temps de nos Peres. Avec l'explication de leurs Devises,<br />

Emblémes, Hieroglyphes, Divisez en deux tomes et dediez à la Reyne Regente (Paris: Sébastien<br />

Cramoisy et Gabriel Cramoisy, 1647), 496.<br />

15 Krakovitch, "Minimes," 110. No <strong>visual</strong> documents exist showing the duc’s arms.<br />

16 Among the authors recognizing Maria de’ Medici as the founder <strong>of</strong> the church were Blondel,<br />

Architecture françoise, 2:145; Antoine Martial Le Fèvre, Description des curiosités des églises<br />

de Paris et des environs (Paris: Cl. P. Gueffier, 1759), 248-49; Piganiol de la Force, Description<br />

historique, 4:438-39.<br />

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