The History of Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day: Containing a Description of Its Antiquities, Public Buildings, Civil, Religious, Scientific, and Commercial Institutions...

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G. B. Whittaker, 1825
 

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Página 40 - Queen; another over the entrails of Louisa Maria, second daughter of the king; and on one side, another over the heart of Mary Gordon, of Huntly, Duchess of Perth.
Página 18 - As he sold his printed copies for sixty crowns, •while the scribes demanded five hundred, this created universal astonishment : but when he produced copies as fast as they were •wanted, and lowered the price to thirty crowns, all Paris was agitated. The uniformity of the copies increased the wonder. Informations were given...
Página 39 - Its chapel, erected in 1672, is dedicated to St. Andrew. It is on the first floor, and in the Ionic style ; part of the nave has been separated from the rest of the chapel by a partition, thus forming a vestibule. Here the visitor will see the monument of the unfortunate James II., erected to his memory by his faithful friend and the constant companion of his exile, James Duke of carpet which the canons had caused to be spread before the door of the abbey for the convenience of Pope Eugene III.,...
Página lxxix - Redeemer vouchsafed | to take upon him : the second, of the descent of the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove, at...
Página 57 - LOUIS par la grace de Dieu Roy de France et de Navarre. A nos...
Página 37 - Seminary was cslablished under letters patent granted by Louis XIV., in 1684, which authorised Catholics, who could not be educated for the ministry in England, to live in ecclesiastical community. Their church was dedicated to St. Gregory the Great. This house was suppressed in 1792, and is no\v rented for secular purposes.
Página 63 - Peres,'1 because two of the most zealous for the establishment of their order in Paris, who were men of small stature, being introduced into the antechamber of Henry IV., the king said, " Qui sont ces petits p6re*-la?
Página cxxxvii - Passant , penses.tu pas passer par ce passage , Où , pensant , j'ai passé ? Si tu n'y penses pas , passant , tu n'es pas sage ; Car , en n'y pensant pas , tu te verras passé.
Página 39 - On the top of the monument was formerly an urn of bronze gilt, containing the brain of the King, who died at St. Germain en Laye, Sept.
Página 18 - The uniformity of the copies increased the wonder; informations were given to the police against him as a magician ; his lodgings were searched, and a great number of copies being found, they were seized : the red ink, with which they were embellished, was...

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