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A JOURNEY OVERLAND
and pictures, but not yett finished1. From thence to other
the kings roomes, all carved, painted, guilded, and hunge
with Cloth of Arras-. From thence to the Queenes
Cabbinett, being a litle square roome exceedinge all the
rest for admirable workemanshipp in paintinge and guild-
inge, there beinge the Younge Kinge and Queenes picture,
also of King Henry his father and the Queene his Mother,
with divers other curiosities3 (The King, the Queene, as
also the English Ambassador then att Potiers)4.
1 Compare A Tour in France and Italy (1675), p. 3, "The Louvre
has only one end, and one side of it finish'd; and when the rest shall
be added, will be one of the most extraordinary Pallaces in the
World, both as to its Greatness and Figure, not any in Italy re-
sembling' it in either: Behind it is the great Garden of the Tuilleries,
which is near half as long as St. James's Park: Is prettily planted
with Firr-Trees, Cypress, etc., and would be very fine, were they
grown up, and that it had Gravel-Walks. Beyond this, is the Cour
de la Reyne, a place by the River-side, set with Trees about a Mile
long, like the great Walk in St. James's Park: wherein the Coaches
take the Air in the Evening, and with some jostling, pass and turn,
there being in the middle, and at the end, round places for that
purpose." See also Coryafs Crudities, vol. i. p. 175.
2 Compare Sloane MS. 2142, fol. 3 (1658), "The Louvre is the
Lodging ordinarily of the King when he is at Paris. The building-
is one of the statelyest of France and the Kings Lodgings as thick
as any mortal man can be ambitious off. In the Chamber where
he lyes is a place where his bed stands, which is al raild in with great
rayles of massy silver." See also A I our in France and Italy, p. 3.
3 Compare Rami. MS. D. 197, fol. 4 f., Travels (in 1648), " I went
in the morneing tow see the Louer the Kings pallace itt is a vast
Sumtius Building of polliched stone the bigest and finest home in
Europe. Wee saw the Kings the Quines the Dauphins and the
young Duke of Orlianes Quarters all which are for the most part
wennescoted butt excellently carved and gilt and painted by the best
masters of France most of Romantick storis and fables. The seating
of the roumes are the like butt much finer....The Roume of Audience
is very Long, most excellently well gilt, painted and foull of great
rich Chints, the hangings are of cloth of Goulde imbraded with silver,
the flower of the Louer is all of wood excellently in Laide."...
Compare also Sloane MS. 2142, fol. 3, " The Chamber and Cabinett
of the Queenes are as stately and rich as that of the Kings and
replenished with very fine and rare Pictures." For further accounts
see Coryal's Crudities, vol. i. p. 173 and A Tour in France and Italy
(1675), P-3-
4 After the reconciliation of Louis XIII. with his mother, Marie
de Medicis, at Brissac, in August, 1620, the king went to Poitiers to
put the affairs of Guienne in order. See Abrcgi! Clironologique de
I'Histoire de France sous les Regnes de Louis XIII. et Louis XIV.,
vol. i. p. 185.
A JOURNEY OVERLAND
and pictures, but not yett finished1. From thence to other
the kings roomes, all carved, painted, guilded, and hunge
with Cloth of Arras-. From thence to the Queenes
Cabbinett, being a litle square roome exceedinge all the
rest for admirable workemanshipp in paintinge and guild-
inge, there beinge the Younge Kinge and Queenes picture,
also of King Henry his father and the Queene his Mother,
with divers other curiosities3 (The King, the Queene, as
also the English Ambassador then att Potiers)4.
1 Compare A Tour in France and Italy (1675), p. 3, "The Louvre
has only one end, and one side of it finish'd; and when the rest shall
be added, will be one of the most extraordinary Pallaces in the
World, both as to its Greatness and Figure, not any in Italy re-
sembling' it in either: Behind it is the great Garden of the Tuilleries,
which is near half as long as St. James's Park: Is prettily planted
with Firr-Trees, Cypress, etc., and would be very fine, were they
grown up, and that it had Gravel-Walks. Beyond this, is the Cour
de la Reyne, a place by the River-side, set with Trees about a Mile
long, like the great Walk in St. James's Park: wherein the Coaches
take the Air in the Evening, and with some jostling, pass and turn,
there being in the middle, and at the end, round places for that
purpose." See also Coryafs Crudities, vol. i. p. 175.
2 Compare Sloane MS. 2142, fol. 3 (1658), "The Louvre is the
Lodging ordinarily of the King when he is at Paris. The building-
is one of the statelyest of France and the Kings Lodgings as thick
as any mortal man can be ambitious off. In the Chamber where
he lyes is a place where his bed stands, which is al raild in with great
rayles of massy silver." See also A I our in France and Italy, p. 3.
3 Compare Rami. MS. D. 197, fol. 4 f., Travels (in 1648), " I went
in the morneing tow see the Louer the Kings pallace itt is a vast
Sumtius Building of polliched stone the bigest and finest home in
Europe. Wee saw the Kings the Quines the Dauphins and the
young Duke of Orlianes Quarters all which are for the most part
wennescoted butt excellently carved and gilt and painted by the best
masters of France most of Romantick storis and fables. The seating
of the roumes are the like butt much finer....The Roume of Audience
is very Long, most excellently well gilt, painted and foull of great
rich Chints, the hangings are of cloth of Goulde imbraded with silver,
the flower of the Louer is all of wood excellently in Laide."...
Compare also Sloane MS. 2142, fol. 3, " The Chamber and Cabinett
of the Queenes are as stately and rich as that of the Kings and
replenished with very fine and rare Pictures." For further accounts
see Coryal's Crudities, vol. i. p. 173 and A Tour in France and Italy
(1675), P-3-
4 After the reconciliation of Louis XIII. with his mother, Marie
de Medicis, at Brissac, in August, 1620, the king went to Poitiers to
put the affairs of Guienne in order. See Abrcgi! Clironologique de
I'Histoire de France sous les Regnes de Louis XIII. et Louis XIV.,
vol. i. p. 185.