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Marquis’s family before. Of his dwelling-house I 
shall speak hereafter. Within this hut is written, 
« Jean Jacques est immortel.” From it is another 
fine view ; it stands among craggy rocks. 
Descending into another valley, we went by the 
water side through groves and across a meadow to 
the tower of la belle Gabrielle d’ Estrées, who was 
mistress to Henry IV. Tradition says this garden 
was their first place of rendezvous, which occa- 
sioned the Marquis to build this tower; it is in 
the Gothic style, and ornamented with trophies and 
verses. Among the rest is the very armour which 
belonged to a faithful follower of Henry IV., whose 
name I forget, and who passing through the street 
where that prince was murdered, a few days after 
that event, fell down in an agony of grief, and died 
the next day. 
_ Passing by a pretty grotto by the side of a bub- 
bling fountain of the finest water I ever saw, we at 
length arrived at Rousseau’s garden, one of the 
sweetest spots I ever beheld, quite sequestered, and 
planted in the most romantic style; it chiefly con- 
sists of an irregular lawn surrounded with a variety 
of trees and shrubs, and ornamented with flowers, 
but apparently all in a state of nature; nor is the 
hand of art to be traced at all, except in the beauti- 
ful velvet of the turf. On a tree is an inscription, 
signifying that there Jean Jacques used often to re- 
tire, to admire the works of nature, to feed his 
favourite birds, and play with the Marquis’s children. 
Near this spot is a house intended for his dwelling, — 
but he died before it was finished; ’tis a comforta- 
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