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ON GARDENS
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spring, which they say being first discover’d by a dog,
gave occasion of beautifying this place, both with the
Palace and Gardens. The rocks at some distance in
the Forest, yeald one of the most august & stupendous
prospects imaginable. The Parke about this place
is very large, and the Towne is full of noblemen’s
houses.
1 April. I went to see more exactly the roomes of
the fine Palace of Luxemburge, in the Fauxborg St.
Germains, built by Mary de Medices, and I think one
of the most noble, entire, and finish’d piles that is to
be seen, taking it with the garden and all its accom-
plishments. The gallery is of the painting of Rubens,
being the history of the Foundresses life, rarely
designed ; at the end of it is the Duke of Orleans’s
Library, well furnished with excellent bookes, all
bound in maroquin and gilded, the valans of the
shelves being of greene velvet fring’d with gold. In
the cabinet joyning it are onely the smaler volumes,
with 6 cabinets of medails, and an excellent collection
of shells, and achates, whereof some are prodigiously
rich. This Duke being very learn’d in medails and
plants, nothing of that kind escapes him. There are
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spring, which they say being first discover’d by a dog,
gave occasion of beautifying this place, both with the
Palace and Gardens. The rocks at some distance in
the Forest, yeald one of the most august & stupendous
prospects imaginable. The Parke about this place
is very large, and the Towne is full of noblemen’s
houses.
1 April. I went to see more exactly the roomes of
the fine Palace of Luxemburge, in the Fauxborg St.
Germains, built by Mary de Medices, and I think one
of the most noble, entire, and finish’d piles that is to
be seen, taking it with the garden and all its accom-
plishments. The gallery is of the painting of Rubens,
being the history of the Foundresses life, rarely
designed ; at the end of it is the Duke of Orleans’s
Library, well furnished with excellent bookes, all
bound in maroquin and gilded, the valans of the
shelves being of greene velvet fring’d with gold. In
the cabinet joyning it are onely the smaler volumes,
with 6 cabinets of medails, and an excellent collection
of shells, and achates, whereof some are prodigiously
rich. This Duke being very learn’d in medails and
plants, nothing of that kind escapes him. There are