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guiflied rank among the eftablifhments of Paris, is intended 
to complete the education of the Undents who have ren¬ 
dered themfelves confpieuous in other inditutions, and 
particularly to form them for the artillery, or to train 
them up as engineers. No officer is admitted into the 
artillery who has not been educated in the Polytechnic 
School. The moll didinguifhed mailers in every branch 
of fcience are employed by the government. Every year 
a certain number of fcholars are admitted, after under¬ 
going the mod rigorous examination in the claffics, the 
mathematics, mechanics, and drawing. 
The number of pupils amounts to 300. The ufual 
courfe of ftudyis three years. The fchool polfelfes an ex¬ 
cellent pbilofophic'al and chemical apparatus, and a well- 
feledled library containing 10,000 volumes. Government 
pays all the expenfes of inllruftion, but 800 francs per 
annum are required from every pupil for his board and 
lodging. 
Ecole Royale des Pouts et Chauffees , Royal School of 
Bridges and Roads; Rue Ste. Catherine.—Eighty pupils, 
felefted from the Polytechnic School, are here taught 
every branch of fcience connedted with the condrudtion 
of bridges, canals, harbours, roads, and public edifices. 
The mufeum contains a noble collection of plans, charts, 
and models. 
Ecole Royale Gratuxte de Defjein, Royal free Drawing- 
School ; Rue de l’Ecole.—This unique but ufeful eftablifti- 
ment was founded by M. Bachelier, in 1767. Its pur- 
pofe is to diffufe fcientific principles among the lower 
clafles of mechanics. Fifteen hundred perfons often af- 
femble here. Medals are didributed every month, and 
prizes every year. There are ledtures every Monday on 
p radical geometry, arithmetic, and admeafurement; every 
Thurfday on architecture; Tuefdays and Fridays on the 
proportions of the human figure and of animals ; and 
Wednefdays and Saturdays on ornamental architecture. 
In the Rue de Touraine, there is a fchool particularly 
appropriated to teaching young women to draw. This 
is alfo at the expenfe of the government; and there is an 
annual exhibition of the bed performances, and medals 
are didributed to the deferving. 
Ecole des Mines, School of Mineralogy.—This inditu- 
tior. is fituated in the principal court of the Mint. It 
was begun in 1778, with the collection of the famous che- 
mid Le Sage, who fpent forty-three years in this particu¬ 
lar purfuit. The centre of the cabinet, contains an am¬ 
phitheatre capable of receiving two hundred perfons. 
Large cafes with glafs doors enclofe fpecimens of all the 
minerals, fcientifically arranged. Four other cafes, placed 
in compartments between the pillars, difplay various 
models of curious machines. One of the cabinets en- 
clofes the analyfis of every fpecimen. Upon the fird 
landing-place of the daircafe conducting to the gallery, is 
a bud of Monf. Le Sage, which was confecrated by the 
gratitude of his pupils. This gallery is furrounded with 
cafes containing fpecimens of minerals, far too numerous 
to be placed in due order after thofe which are ranged in 
the lower cabinets. The cupola, which riles above, is 
finely enriched with painted pannels, and decorated with 
gilding. The interior of this mufeum is 45 feet long, 38 
feet wide, and 40 feet in height. This fplendid mufeum 
w f as untouched by the allies. The collection of medals, 
one of the mod perfeCt that France contained, has been 
removed to the Royal Library. 
At this fchool twenty pupils are admitted; they are 
indruCted in every art connected with metallurgy and the 
working of mines. Vauquelin is the infpeCtor of the la¬ 
boratory, and Haiiy the fuperintendant of the minerals. 
Public leCtures are delivered during five months, on Mon¬ 
day, Wednefday, and Friday, at noon ; beginning in No¬ 
vember. 
Ecole Royale Vet'erinairc d'Alfovt, Royal Veterinary 
School.—This excellent inditution was founded by Bour- 
gelet in 1766, and has fince been peculiarly and defervedly 
fodered by government. Every department may fend 
three pupils, and every regiment of cavalry one, who are 
boarded and indruCted at the expenfe of government; but 
numerous pupils are fent to the college at the expenfe of 
their friends. 
This inditution is the nobleft of the kind in Europe, 
and is conducted on principles which tend more to the 
improvement of the art than the emolument of the pro- 
feffors. LeCtures are delivered, by feven of the mod emi¬ 
nent teachers, on the anatomy and phyfiology of every 
domedic animal, the treatment of their difeafes, and their 
management in the field and the dable; natural hidory,. 
botany, pharmaceutical chemidry, the materia medica, the 
operations of the forge, veterinary jurifprudence, and the 
theory and practice of rural economy. A refidencc of 
five years is required before the dudent is authorized to 
praCtife as a veterinary furgeon. 
The fchool contains a mod valuable cabinet of natural 
hidory and comparative anatomy, admittance to which 
may be eafily obtained. 
Ecole Nonnalc, Rue des Podes.—This lingular and ufe¬ 
ful edablifnment has for its objeCt to train up proper 
perfons as profelfors in the different colleges, and inflrudt- 
ors in the various feminaries of France. The courfe of 
dudy is exceedingly fevere, and is adapted to elucidate 
the talent of the pupil for communicating as well as re¬ 
ceiving indruCtion. 
Lyceums.— There are four Lyceums, or public fchools, 
in which the pupils enjoy a complete courfe of collegiate 
education : Lycee Louis-le-Grand, Rue St. Jacques; 
Lycee Henry IV. Place St. Genevieve ; Lycee Bourbon, 
Chauffee d’Antin ; Lycee Charlemagne, Rue St. Antoine. 
The pupils pay 1000 francs per annum ; and, at a yearly 
meeting of the fcholars of all the Lyceums, numerous 
prizes are awarded. 
Beginning at the Palais des Beaux Arts, which is the 
feat of the Royal Academy, we have been induced to in¬ 
clude under that head as it were, our account of all the 
principal inditutions for the promotion of fcience and li¬ 
terature. We fliall now conclude our enumeration of 
public buildings. 
Palais d’ELYSiE Bourbon, Rue St. Honore.—This 
palace, remarkable for its luxurious elegance, was built 
by the comte d’Evreux in 1718. Madame de Pompadour 
afterwards poffeffed it. It next became the appointed re- 
fidence of the foreign ambaffadors extraordinary. In 
1773, it was purchafed by the financier Beaujon, who 
cor.fiderably embellifhed it; and fliortly after it came into 
the poffeffion of Madame de Bourbon. 
During the early years of the Revolution, the govern¬ 
ment printing-office was edabliffied in this palace. It 
afterwards belonged to Murat, who yielded it to Bona¬ 
parte, to whom it owes all the decorations of the interior. 
During the fird vifit of the allied monarchs, it was the 
refidence of the emperor of Ruffia. On the return ot 
Bonaparte -from Elba it became his favourite abode, and 
it received him after his efcapefrom the fatal field of Wa¬ 
terloo. At his final departure, it became the habitation 
of his conqueror; the duke of Wellington edabliffied 
himfelf there. It is now the refidence of the duke of 
Bourbon. 
Palais de la Legion d’HoNNEUR, formerly Hotel de 
Salm; Rue de Bourbon.—The Hotel de Salm, built a 
little before the Revolution, was one of the mod elegant 
edifices which Paris contained. Its only defedl was, 
that it refembled fome public building rather than the 
houfe of an individual. The purpofe to which it is now 
devoted has completely removed this objection. Towards 
the Rue de Bourbon it prefents a triumphal arch, flanked 
by a colonnade of the Ionic order, terminated by two 
liandfome lodges. This enclofes a fpacious court, at the 
bottom of which is the grand front of the palace. It 
confids of a noble portico of the Corinthian order, on 
each fide of which is a colonnade of the Ionic order. The 
principal faloon rifes in the form of a rotunda, the cupola 
of which is enriched with fome exquifite paintings, de- 
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