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statues, which are in such profusion in all the gar- 
dens and squares hereabouts, are extremely noble ; 
and such is the management of the Government that 
nothing is injured by the populace: there are marble 
statues in the gardens of Versailles and the Tuille- 
ries exposed to all kinds of people, and yet unhurt, 
which deserve to be kept in glass cases. I have seen 
no really beautiful and perfectly pleasing morsel of 
architecture except the portico of St. Genevieve now 
building, and the celebrated colonnade du Louvre. 
The paintings are al] removed from the gallery of 
the Louvre, and packed up; but I hope to see the 
Luxembourg gallery soon. I have visited with great 
veneration the bedchamber of Henry IV. which is 
now one of the apartments of the Académie des 
Sciences, who meet in the Louvre: it is a small 
ill-lighted room, wonderfully richly carved and gilt ; 
his bust stands in the place of the bed. Here I sup- 
pose he was brought bleeding, and left for the peo- 
ple to look at. | 
The monument of the Valois family, and those 
of Francis I. and Louis XII., all at St. Denis, are 
exquisite indeed; but the design of them is odd, 
for the kings and queens are represented almost 
naked, in the agonies of death, or just dead; their 
limbs, features, and hair,in ghastly disorder; and the 
bodies as if having been opened and sewn up again, 
for the stitches are as curiously done as any part. 
All the church and every monument are kept most 
scrupulously neat, which is a great advantage. 
The Duke of Orleans has a fine collection of 
pictures, which I have seen: among them is one ex- 
