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3yo Genevan/ the Lake.
Distance from Tenon GandsRipaille, where
is a Convent of Cartbusians. They have
a large Forest cut out into Walks, that are
extremely thick and gloomy, and very
suitable to the Genius of the Inhabitants.
There are Fijla's in it of a great Length,
that terminate upon the Lake. At one
Side, of the Walks you have a near Pro-
spest of the^^r, which are broken in-
to so many Steps and Precipices, that they
fill the Mind with an agreeable kind of
Horror, and form one of the most ir-
regular mii-shapen Scenes in the World.
The House that is now in the Hands of
the Carthufians belong’d formerly to the
Hermites of St. Mauriceand is famous
in History for the Retreat of an
Anti-Pope, who call’d himself Felix the
Fifth. He had been Duke of' Savoy
and after a very glorious Reign took on
him the Habit of a Hermite, and retired
into this Solitary Spot of his Domini-
ons. His Enemies will have it, that he
lived here in great Ease and Luxury,
from whence the Italians to this Day
make use of the Proverb, Andare a Ri-
paglia-, and the French^ Faire Ripaille^ to
express a delightful kind of Life. They
say too, that he had great Managements
with ieveral Ecclesiasticks before he
turned Hermite, and that he did it in
the View of being advanced tothePon-
tificate.
Distance from Tenon GandsRipaille, where
is a Convent of Cartbusians. They have
a large Forest cut out into Walks, that are
extremely thick and gloomy, and very
suitable to the Genius of the Inhabitants.
There are Fijla's in it of a great Length,
that terminate upon the Lake. At one
Side, of the Walks you have a near Pro-
spest of the^^r, which are broken in-
to so many Steps and Precipices, that they
fill the Mind with an agreeable kind of
Horror, and form one of the most ir-
regular mii-shapen Scenes in the World.
The House that is now in the Hands of
the Carthufians belong’d formerly to the
Hermites of St. Mauriceand is famous
in History for the Retreat of an
Anti-Pope, who call’d himself Felix the
Fifth. He had been Duke of' Savoy
and after a very glorious Reign took on
him the Habit of a Hermite, and retired
into this Solitary Spot of his Domini-
ons. His Enemies will have it, that he
lived here in great Ease and Luxury,
from whence the Italians to this Day
make use of the Proverb, Andare a Ri-
paglia-, and the French^ Faire Ripaille^ to
express a delightful kind of Life. They
say too, that he had great Managements
with ieveral Ecclesiasticks before he
turned Hermite, and that he did it in
the View of being advanced tothePon-
tificate.