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five following centuries succeed. The 17tli is extremely 

 rich ; the monuments of almost all the great men and ge- 

 niuses of the reign of Louis XIV. being here assembled, 

 from the monarch himself down to Le Notre his gardener ; 

 the Gothic mausoleum of the King having been transported 

 from the cathedral of St Denis, and the tomb of Le Notre 

 from the church of St Roch in Rue St Honore. The 

 monastic garden of this place has become a select cemetery 

 for the men of genius of former times ; the ashes of Des 

 Cartes, Moliere, Masillon, and many others, now resting 

 here. The mausoleum of Abelard and Eloise adds consi- 

 derable interest to this scene *. 



Garden of Mouceaux. 

 Having procured a fiacre, we drove to Mouceaux, once 

 a splendid English garden, or rather jardin jantastiquc, 

 belonging to the Duke of Orleans, and originally laid out, 

 in 1784, by Mr Blaikie, as formerly mentioned. It is si- 

 tuate at the extremity of the Fauxbourg du Roule. It 

 was much injured by fetes being given in it, during the 

 time of the Revolution ; but although now comparatively 

 in a state of disrepair, it is still a fine place. It receives a 

 warm panegyric from Delille in " Les Jardins:" 



" J'en atteste, Mouceaux, tes jardins toujours verts, 

 La des arbres absens les tiges imitees, 

 Les magiques berceaux, les grottes enchantees, 

 Tout vous charme a. la fois." 



* On going again to the Convent of Augustins in August 1821, I found 

 that nearly the whole monuments had been removed, the present Government 

 having ordered the restitution of such as might be claimed by the different 

 churches and towns to which they originally belonged. The superb tombs 

 of Louis XII. and XIV. had been sent back to St Denis; and the mauso- 

 leum of Abelard and Eloise had been transferred to the new and truly pictu- 

 resque cemetery of Pcre La Chaise.— N. 



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