Chap. IV. 
France. 
membered ; the firfl: is noble without, and curioufly 
furnifhed within, with Statues and Paintings both anci- 
ent and modern, of the Hands of Grimaldi and Roma^ 
nelli^ two famous Italian Painters, fent for hither upon 
that Account 5 the King has taken the beft of them^ 
yet there are many Cabinets, Tapeftries, and other rich 
Veffels of Stone and Silver^ left. The fecond was ai- 
fo excellently well furnilhM with all Sorts of Curiofities, 
and particularly with precious Ci?i»^-works of all Sorts, 
but fince fold or diftributed. 
Tht Recolets a very good Library, and fome 
excellent Paintings : Hard by is the Hofpital of St. 
LewiSy founded tor thofe that are infefled with the 
Plague, by King Henry IV, but at prefcnt is made 
■ufe of for tne Sick of the Hotel de Hieu. In the Street 
i^f St. Avoye is an old large Palace belonging to the 
Grand Prior of France^ but formerly appertaining to 
t\\Q Knights Templars', it has a ^ confiderabie Revenue 
annexed to it. In the Street of St. Lewis is a noble 
Fountain, adorn’d with Tritons and other fuch-like Or- 
naments. 
Their Maifon de Ville or Tozvnhoufe ftands in the Place 
called the Greve, built by King Francis I. Neither the 
Place nor Strudure are anfwerable to the Greatnefs of 
fuch a City as Paris-, however, there is a noble Way 
leading to it, enlarg’d in 1675, with Caufeway-banks 
on both Sides. 
The Place Royal is a magnificent Square, near as 
fpacious as our Great Lincoln^ sHnn- Field, enclos’d with 
PiazzaWalks, and the Platform with Iron Rails; the 
Statue of Yding Lewis XIII, fet up by Cardinal 
ftands in the Middle of it, with leveral Infcriptions on 
it in French and Latin the Horfe is faid to be the 
Work of Volt er re - 3 , famous Italian, who made it for 
King Henry II. The faid Cardinal’s Houfe ftands in 
the fame Place, having among other Curiofities an ex- 
cellent Colledion of Paintings. 
^The Pajiile is a Place not unlike our furrounded 
with a plain Vfall and eight antique Turrets, and ierves 
for the fame ule, viz. for a Magazine and a Prilon for 
Prilbners of Quality. There is another very good 
Arfenal not far from this, a fpacious Pile of Building, 
three great Courts and a Garden ; the Portal is lupport- 
ed by Cannons inftead of Pillars, with this Infcription 
in Capitals : 
AEtna hac Henrico Vulcania tela minijirat. 
Tela Giganteos debellatura furores. 
Here many Workmen are employ’d by the King, to 
caft Statues and other Works in Metal. 
The Abbey of Si. Vilioire, in -the PofTeflion of the 
Canons Regular of St. Auftin, is one of the moft ancient 
Foundations in Paris ; it has a good Library, and fome 
Manufcripts ; and Students are permitted to make ufe 
of them three Times every Week. The noted Mr. 
Santeuil belong’d both to this Houfe and Order. The 
fardin Royal or Phyftck Garden (of which Mr. du Ver- 
Tiey, an excellent Anatomift, was Surveyor) is main- 
tain’d at the King’s Charge, and Botanick Leftures are 
kept there during the beft Seafon for Plants ; it is fome- 
^ing longer, but not_ broader, than that of Oxford. 
There alfo belongs to it a very good Anatomy-School, 
ftored with Skeletons of Animals, and among the reft 
with one of a very large Elephant. In the King’s La- 
boratory every Body is admitted to fee the Operations, 
and the Medicines made here are beftowed upon the 
Poor. ^ 
Near it is the Hofpital General, as they call it, a vaft 
Pile of Buildings, finifh’d in 1657, by Cardinal Maza- 
Ttn, and containing near fix thoufand poor People, who 
are employ’d here in different Sorts of Work, and when 
fick well look’d after. Another of their Hofpitals is 
that call’d Hotel Lieu, a very large Building, but nei- 
ther handfome nor extraordinary convenient, beino- 
lometimes overcrowded with Sick, and too clofely 
built up round about it. As it is the chief Hofpital 
m Paris for the Sick, the Nuns of St. Auftin are oblig’d 
to tend and look after them, which they do with fo 
much Tendernefs fometimes, that they don’t care much 
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to return to the Nunnery’s i fot, hot long before, a 
certain Irifhmari being recovered by the Care of his pretty 
Nurfe, made ftiifu to carry her away without being ever* 
heard of fince : The Danger and Trouble that muft: 
needs be the Attendants of this Employment, making 
the fame very meritorious among the Romanics, the 
Ladies of the firft Quality fometimes employ themfelves 
in thefe Afts of Piety ; and it was in this Place that (not 
long before) the Dutchefs of Nemours, Mother to the 
Dutchefs of Orleans, got the Small-pox, and her Death 
into the Bargain. Not far thence is the Horpical de Id 
Charite, where the Friers of Si. John ptiform the fame 
Office as the Nuns do in the former ; Each Room has 
three Rows of Beds. 
There is another Hofpital in Paris they ftile The In^ 
curable, becaufe only fuch as are paft Cure are admitted 
into it. 
But what exceeds all the reft is, the Hotel Royal des 
Invahdes, or the Royal Hofpital for maimed Soldiers, or 
thofe render’d unfervieeable by Age, founded upon the 
fiime Defign as our Chelfea Hofpital, built at the prefent 
King’s Charge, from 1670 to 1678. The whole Struc- 
ture is compofed of five Quadrangles, one large one 
in the Middle, flank’d with two other fquare ones on 
each Side, with Piazza’s and Corridors or Galleries 
round them all the whole Fabrick being of fine hewn 
Stone, makes a very noble Appearance. The Kitchen 
is very large and handfome, and in their Refedories 
(where the Soldiers eaQ you fee moft of the Sieges un- 
dertaken in the late Wars by the French, painted on the 
Walls. The Apothecary’s Shop belonging to this 
Place is the beft contriv’d and as well furnifti’d as any 
I ever met with in all my Travels. The Soldiers are 
attended here by the Sifters of Sc. Lazarus. Confi- 
dering the Freedom allow’d to Strangers, ro be prefent 
at their Operations perform’d in all their Hofpitals, the 
Advantage of their Chymical Ledures^ Phyfick-Gar- 
den, and frequent Pradife in Anatomy, Paris feems 
, the moft accomplifti’d School for young Phyficians^ 
and to be preferred in this Refped to Leyden, Pa- 
dua, Montpellier, Cambridge, and Oxford itfclf. The 
Houfe known by the Name of the Gobelins, in the 
Suburbs of St. Marcell, was formerly famous for the 
making and dying of the beft Scarlet Cloths, but now 
divers Sorts of the beft Workmen are employ’d here at: 
the King’s Coft and Profit, in making the fineft Tape- 
ftry, Plate, Mofaic, Iron, Copper and Brafs-Worksj 
Statuary, Sculpture, Embroideries, (Fc. Thefe Suburbs 
have a Church dedicated to St. Mar cell, where you fee 
the Tomb of the celebrated Peter Lombard. 
3. The Univerfity of Paris, which makes bp one 
third Pant of the whole, is worth the Curiofity of a. 
Traveller ; they make it as ancient as Charles the Great, 
and fay it was he eneompafs’d it with a Wall ; hence it is 
that they celebrate a certain Day to his Memory, when 
all the Heads of the Univerfity meet at the College of 
Navarre. Formerly the Univerfity of Paris had^ore 
Colleges and Students, the Number of the firft (where 
pubhek Exercifes are perform’d) is at prefent reduc’d 
to eight or nine, among which the Sorbonne, the Col- 
lege du Plejfts, that of Havarre and of Harcourt, are the 
chiefeft : They had alfo formerly the Privilege of be- 
ing^ exempted both from the civil and criminal Ju- 
rifdidlion of Paris, which is now little regarded. 
The chief Things profefs’d here are Divinity, Phy- 
fick, Law, and Arts, or Philofophy ; for each of thefe 
they chufe, four Times a Year, a ReBor or Profejfor: 
The Sorbonne and the College of Navarre are the moft 
confiderable for Divinity. The Schools' for the Civil 
Law are in the Rue de Bauvais, lately new model’d 
by the King’s Orders. The Phyficians have a fair Ana- 
tomical Theatre in the Rue de Bouchiere ; and their 
College call’d de quatre Nationt, (i. e. of four Nations) 
viz. thofe of France, Picardy, Normandy, and Germany, 
is dedicated to their Faculty of Arts. * 
The Sorbonne has got its Name from Robert de Sor- 
bonne its Founder, formerly a plain and ordinary Fa- 
brick, but now turn’d into a magnificent Strudure, 
chiefly by the Care of Cardinal Richlteu', it has always 
been famous for its learned Profeflbrs, ever fince its 
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