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firft Foundation, which was under the Reign of St. 
Lewis, as the Infcription on a Brafs Plate in the 
Church teftifies 5 
Ludovicus Rex Francorum, fuh quo f undata fuit Lomus 
Sorlona, circa An, Domini MCCLII. 
The Profeffors and Students are lodged in the Apart- 
ments about the great Quadrangle. 
The Library is kept in a handfome and lofty Room, 
much increafed by the Liberality of the faid Cardinal, 
efpecially with fome Manufcripts, diftinguifhed with 
his Arms upon them. Among other curious Pieces, 
they Ihew you two large Volumes of Livy, an old 
Tranflation of antiquated French, written in the Reign 
of Charles Y. embelifh’d with Paintings in Miniture on 
Vellum j which Art has been loft above two hundred 
Years ago. They have good Store of Divinity Works, 
and all Tranflations of the Bible. The Pidlure of the 
Cardinal their Benefaflor hangs at one End of the 
Room, at Length, in his Habit ; and, at the other, ftands 
his Bull in Brafs, done by the excellent Hand of Va~ 
rini. The Fathers and School-Divines are regularly 
placed one after another, with their refpedlive Annota- 
tors in the Rows underneath. After they have fre- 
quented the publick Lecftures for three Years, they are 
qualified for the Degree of Batchelors, who wear 
Lambfkins and Tippets like our Batchelors of Arts at 
Oxford’, after two Years more, they may be promoted 
to the Degree of Licenteats, who generally are the Op- 
ponents to fuch as take the Degrees of Doftors. I was 
prefent at fome of their publick Exercifes and Difpu- 
tations, which were managed with a great deal of De- 
cency and Order. The Subjedls on which moft gene- 
rally they exercife themfelves are, the Sacrament, the 
Tranfubftantiation, Trinity and Incarnation, which in 
the Roman Church being look’d upon as the foie Objed 
of Faith, even in Contradicftion to Senfe and Reafon, I 
could not but admire to hear the Opponents urge often- 
times fuch Things as are accounted and declared here- 
tical among them. 
The College of Navarre, the next in Rank, acknow- 
ledges King Philip the Fair and his Queen for its Foun- 
ders, as the Infcription under the Statues teftifies. 
Formerly none but Noblemen’s Children were admitted 
here, but now all Sorts, without Diftindlion. They 
have four Profeflbrs in Divinity, and the Archbifhop of 
Paris is Prefident of it. In 1684. the Magiftrates of 
Paris founded an annual Panegyrick for this prefent 
King, on St. Lewises Day. 
The College de Harcourt is a large Strufture near the 
Sorbonne, where continual Exercifes are held for infe- 
rior Forms of Students in Logick and Philofophy ; 
they print their Fhefes, and difpute categorically, with- 
out confining themfelves ftricftly to Syllogiftical Rules. 
The College du Plejfts was reftored by Cardinal Rich- 
lieu, being as it were the Nurfery of the Sorbonne, who 
always place a Governor of their own College over it. 
The Faculty of Arts for the four Nations is a different 
Foundation from the College of the ^atre Nations, 
thefe Artifts having peculiar Houfes allotted them, and 
chufe each, every Year, a Prefident of their own Na- 
tion. 
The College of the ^atre Nations acknow^ledges the 
Cardinal Mazarin for its Founder ; the Portal hath this 
Infcription: 
Jul. Mazarin : S. R. E. Card. 
Baftlicam, Gymnaf. 
F. C. A. MDC.LXI. 
It has a double Court, and a good Library of the Car- 
dinal’s own Colledlion, which is open to every body 
at certain Hours in the Day. The Number intended 
by the faid Cardinal’s Will were fixty, viz. fifteen 
from about Pignerol and the adjacent Parts of Italy, 
fifteen for the Alfatian Youth of Germany, twenty for 
thofe of the New Conquejls in the NetherNnds, and ten 
for Roujflion and Catalonia ; but neither the Strubhire 
nor Infiitution is compleated yet. As the Doblors of 
the Sorbonne are Governors of this College, fo their 
Books in the Library treat of the Cannon and Civil 
Law, mixed with Abundance of School-Divinity. 
The College Royal, founded by Francis I. for Law, 
Phyfick, Mathematicks, and the Oriental Languages, 
was carried on farther by King Henry IV. Mary de Me- 
dicis, and Lewis XIII. though not brought to Perfec- 
tion I the Profeflbra receive their Salaries from the King, 
without any Dependance on the Univerfity. It is feated 
near St. J ames"^- ftreet and the College of Cambray. 
4. The EngUJh Roman-Catholicks have a good Nun- 
nery and Convent of the Benedibiines in Paris, founded 
in 1657. In the Nunnery, many young Ladies of Po- 
pifh Families are educated. Among their Churches, 
the Cathedral called Nojire Dame challenges the firit 
Rank, an antique Gothick Structure, compleated at fe- 
veral Times, more ftrong than noble, a very ancient 
Bilhoprick, founded (as they fay) by St. Dennis not 
long after the Apoftles Time, but made an Arch- 
bifhoprick fo late as 1622, hq Pope Urban YHl. In 
the Choir you fee divers good Pieces of Painting and 
rich Tapeftry, and Abundance of Gold and Silver Plate 
for their Altars : It has about fifty Canons belonging to 
it, among which was once the famous Hiftorian Paulus 
Emilius Veronenfis, whofe Tomb is to be feen in one of 
the little Chappels: 
The next is the Jefuits Church ; on the Front of 
their College you fee thefe Words in Capitals, Collegium 
Ludovici Magni. This Society was firft introduced into 
Paris by du Pratt, who prefided at the Council of Frent 
for France, and afterwards proved a great Benefaftor to 
them, as well as that famous and unfortunate Minifter 
of State M. Fouquet. The Library, which was his Gift, 
is a very good one, both for Number of Books and 
Manufcripts, among which are many Protegtant and So- 
cinian Authors. Thefe Fathers have another College in 
the Street of Sc. Anthony, the Church whereof is a mag- 
nificent modern Strufture, carried on in Part by Car- 
dinal Richlieu, under tiie Reign of King Lewis XIII, 
whofe Heart is entombed here, as well as that ot Henry 
de Bourbon Prince of Conde, 
They have lately built another in the Suburbs of St. 
Germain, called the Novitiates, the Church whereof is 
but fmall, but the Architecfture moft excellent ; it was 
built at the Charge of M. Noyer, Secretary of State. 
The Church of Sc. Genevieve, with its regular Canons, 
is faid to have been founded by King Clovis, who has 
an old Tomb here, which has been cmbelliftied of late 
Years, for they have put on his Head a Crown with a 
Flower de Luce, whereas thofe Arms were not till long 
after ufed by the Crown of France ; juft as in fome 
other Popifh Countries I have obferved our Saviour 
painted with Beads and a Rofary in his Hands. They 
have alfo put a modern Infcription upon the old King’s 
Tomb. But the chief Ornament of this Chu|’ch is the 
Tomb of that great French Philofopher Des Cartes ; it 
has two Infcriptions, one in French Verfe, the other 
in Latin. 
The Apothecary’s Shop>^ belonging to the Convent, 
and the Library, are neatly difpofed, where they have 
ancient Bufts, Coins, Medals, and other Antiquities : 
Father Molinet has a curious Colleftion of Rarities of 
his own ; and the famous Architedl Father Creil was a 
Member of this Convent. In the Monaftery of the 
Jacobins is to be feen the Monument of Humbertus, the 
kft Prince of Dauphine, who having no lifue, fold this 
Principality to Phil, de Valois, and, embracing a rao- 
naftical Life at Lyons, became firft Prior cf this Con- 
vent, and afterwards Patriarch of Alexandria, as the In- 
fcription tells you. 
5. The Church of the Carmelites is, for its’Antiquity, 
not inferior to any in Paris, being fuppofed to have 
been founded by St. Dennis it now contains the Heart 
of the Great Furenne, and has divers excellent modern 
Paintings and other Ornaments within. That called 
Val de Grace is both a modern Inftitution and Strudure, 
after the Italian, founded by Queen Anne of Aujiria, 
upon the miraculous Birth (as they ftile it) of the pre- 
fent King, after Ihe had been married twenty-two 
Years : Her Heart, as alfo that of our Henrietta Maria 
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