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In 1217 the first of the Dominicans were seen at Paris. On the 12th of
September seven preaching friars, among whom were Laurence the
Englishman and a brother of St. Dominic, established themselves in a
house near the _parvis_ of Notre Dame. In 1218 the University gave
them a home opposite the church of St. Etienne des... |
St. Louis sought diligently over all the land for the _grand sage
homme_ who would prove an honest and fearless judge, punishing the
wicked without regard to rank or riches; and what he exacted of his
officers he practised himself. He punished his own brother, the Count
of Artois, for having forced a sale of land on an... |
In 1240 an ingenious and sacrilegious thief, climbing to the roof to
haul up the silver candlesticks from the altar by a noose in a rope,
set fire to the altar cloth, and the choir was seriously injured.
Sully's work had been Romanesque, and choir and apse were now rebuilt
in the new style, to harmonise with the remain... |
[Footnote 62: Par. XVI. 51.][Footnote 63: Another delusion of moderns is that there was an absence
of personal cleanliness in those ages. In the census of the
inhabitants of Paris, who in 1292 were subject to the Taille, there
are inscribed the names of no less than twenty-six proprietors of
public hot baths, a larger ... |
There was no discipline or college life among the earliest students.
Each master, having obtained his license from the bishop's chancellor,
rented a room at his own cost, and taught what he knew--even, it was
sometimes complained, what he did not know. We read of one Adam du
Petit Pont, who, in the twelfth century, exp... |
When the term "university" first came into use is unknown. It is met
with in the statutes (1215) which, among other matters, define the
limits of age for teaching. A master in the arts must not lecture
under twenty-one; of theology under thirty-five. Every master must
undergo an examination as to qualification and mora... |
The wonderful thirteenth century saw the meridian glory of the
university. It was the age of the great Aristotelian schoolmen who all
taught at Paris--Albertus Magnus, St. Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus and
Roger Bacon, their candid critic, who carried the intellectual
curiosity of the age beyond the tolerance of his Fran... |
The bull of deposition was to be promulgated on 8th September. On the
7th, while the aged pope was peacefully resting at his native city of
Anagni, Guillaume de Nogaret, Philip's minister, bearing the royal
banner of France, Sciarra Colonna and other disaffected Italian
nobles, with three hundred horsemen, flung themse... |
A few confessed and were set free. The remainder were "examined."
Starvation and torture of the most incredible ferocity did their work.
Thirty-six died under the rack in Paris, and many more in other
places; most of the remainder confessed to anything the inquisitors
required. Clement, warned by the growing feeling in... |
Those who would read the details of the dramatic examination at Paris
before the papal commissioners, may do so in the minutes published by
Michelet.[79] The great historian declares that a study of the
evidence shook his belief in the Templars' innocence, and that if he
were writing his history again, he must needs al... |
Never since the days of Charlemagne had the French Monarchy been so
powerful as when the Valois came to the throne: in less than a
generation Crecy and Poitiers had made the English name a terror in
France, and a French king, John the Good, was led captive to England.
In 1346 Paris saw her _faubourgs_ wasted, the palac... |
In 1370 their camp fires were again seen outside Paris: but Marcel's
wall had now been completed. Charles refused battle and allowed them
to ravage the suburbs with impunity. Before the army left, an English
knight swore he would joust at the gates of the city, and spurred
lance in hand against them. As he turned to ri... |
On the morrow, 11th January 1383, the king and his court, with 12,000
men-at-arms, appeared at the Porte St. Denis, and there stood the
provost of the merchants with the chief citizens in new robes, holding
a canopy of cloth of gold. Charles, with a fierce glance, ordered them
back; the gates were unhinged and flung do... |
The Armagnacs, for so the Orleanists were now called, thirsted for
revenge, and for five years Paris was the scene of frightful
atrocities as each faction gained the upper hand and took a bloody
vengeance on its rivals. At length the infamous policy of an alliance
with the English was resorted to. The temptation was to... |
Six months later, while Charles was sunk in sloth at the chateau of
Sully, Jeanne was captured by the Burgundians at the siege of
Compiegne, and her enemies closed on her like bloodhounds. The
university of Paris and the Inquisition wrangled for her body, but
English gold bought her from her Burgundian captors and sent... |
It is beyond the scope of the present work to describe the successful
achievement of Louis' policy of concentrating the whole government in
himself as absolute sovereign of France, by the overthrow of feudalism
and the subjection of the great nobles with their almost royal power
and state. His indomitable will, his con... |
It was in Louis' reign that the art of printing was introduced into
Paris. As early as 1458 the master of the mint had been sent to Mainz
to learn something of the new art, but without success. In 1463, Fust
and his partner, Schoeffer, had brought some printed books to Paris,
but the books were confiscated and the part... |
North and east and west of the municipal centre, the Maison aux
Piliers, on the Place de Greve, was a maze of streets filled with the
various crafts of Paris. The tower of the great church of St. Jacques
de la Boucherie, as yet unfinished, emerged from the butchers' and
skinners' shops and slaughter-houses, which at th... |
[Footnote 103: The authorship of this famous building is much
canvassed by authorities. M.E. Mareuse, secretary of the Committee of
Inscriptions, affirms that Domenico must be considered the _unique
architecte_ of our old Municipal Palace: other writers claim with
equal confidence Pierre Chambiges as the architect. Cha... |
[Footnote 106: Students in Paris in the days of King Francis had cause
to remember gratefully that monarch's solicitude, for a maximum of
charges was fixed, and an order made that every hotel-keeper should
affix his prices outside the door, that extortion might be avoided.
Among other maxima, the price of a pair of she... |
[Footnote 110: "The moral brutality of the Renaissance is clearly shown
in its punishments. In this matter it reached with perfection its
prototype, the times of the cruel Roman Emperors.... Never has
'justice' been more barbarous; not even in the darkest Middle Ages has
torture been more refined, more devilish, than i... |
Europe was now in travail of a new era, and unhappy France reeled
under the tempest of the Reformation. A daring spirit of enquiry and
of revolt challenged every principle on which the social fabric had
been based, and the only refuge in the coming storm in France was the
Monarchy. Never had its power been more absolut... |
Coligny once again was warned by his friends to beware of the court,
but he refused to distrust Charles. Many and conflicting are the
reports of what followed. We shall not be accused of any Protestant
bias if we base our story mainly on that of the two learned
Benedictine priests[115] who are responsible for five soli... |
[Footnote 118: The municipality gave presents of money to the archers
who had taken part in the massacre, to the watermen who prevented the
Huguenots from crossing the Seine, and to grave-diggers for having
buried in eight days about 1,100 bodies.][Illustration: PETITE GALERIE OF THE LOUVRE.]The princes of Navarre and ... |
On the night of the 11th May a force of Royal Guards and 4,000 Swiss
mercenaries entered Paris, but the Parisians, with that genius for
insurrection which has always characterised them, were equal to the
occasion. The sixteen sections into which the communal government of
the city was divided met; in the morning the pe... |
Four months the Parisians endured starvation and all the attendant
horrors of a siege, the incidents of which, as described by
contemporaries, are so ghastly that the pen recoils from transcribing
them. At length, when they were at the last extremity, the Duke of
Parma arrived with a Spanish army, forced Henry to raise... |
Like all his race, Henry was susceptible to the charms of the
daughters of Eve, but, unlike his descendants, he never sacrificed
France to their tears and wiles. When the question of the succession
was urgent and he thought of marrying Gabrielle d'Estrees, Sully
opposed the union. The impatient Gabrielle used all her p... |
Henry also partly rebuilt the Hotel Dieu, created new streets, and
widened others.[129] New fountains and quays were built; the Porte du
Temple was reopened, and the Porte des Tournelles constructed.
Unhappily, some of the old wooden bridges remained, and on Sunday,
22nd December 1596, the Pont aux Meuniers (Miller's B... |
In 1616 the nobles were once more in arms, and Conde was again bought
off. The helpless court was in pitiful straits and the country
drifting to civil war, when Richelieu, who, meanwhile, had been made a
royal councillor and minister for foreign affairs, took the Conde
business in hand. He had the prince arrested in th... |
[Illustration: PONT NEUF.]In 1624, Henry the Fourth's great scheme for enlarging and completing
the Louvre was committed by Richelieu to his architect, Jacques
Lemercier, and the first stone of the Pavilion de l'Horloge was laid
on 28th June by Louis. Lemercier was great enough and modest enough to
adopt his predecesso... |
Among the many evils attendant on a monarchy, which Samuel recited to
the children of Israel, that of the possibility of a regency might
well have found place. Louis XIV. was less than five years of age when
his father died, and once again the great nobles turned the
difficulties of the situation to their own profit. B... |
The second phase of the wars of the Fronde became a more serious
matter. Turenne, won over by the court, was given command of the royal
forces, and moved against Conde. The two armies, after indecisive
battles, raced to Paris and fought for its possession outside the
Porte St. Antoine. The Frondeurs occupied what is no... |
On the 6th of June 1662, the young Louis, notwithstanding much public
misery consequent on two years of bad harvests, organised a
magnificent carrousel (tilting) in the garden that fronted the
Tuileries. Five companies of nobles, each led by the king or one of
the princes, were apparelled in gorgeous costumes as Romans... |
Woe to the nation whose king is thrall to women. The manner in which
this momentous step was taken is characteristic of Louis. Two councils
were held in Madame de Maintenon's room at Versailles; her advice was
asked by the king, and apparently turned the scale in favour of
acceptance. "For a hundred years," says Taine,... |
The demolition of what remained of mediaeval Paris proceeded apace
during Louis XIV.'s lifetime, and, at his death, the architectural
features of its streets were substantially those of the older Paris of
to-day. Colbert had taken up the costly legacy of the unfinished
Louvre before the petrified banalities of Versaill... |
A refuge had been founded as early as Henry IV.'s reign in an old
abbey in the Faubourg St. Marcel, for old and disabled soldiers. Louis
XIV., the greatest creator of _invalides_ France had seen, determined
in 1670 to extend the foundation, and erect a vast hospital, capable
of accommodating his aged, crippled or infir... |
In 1723, Louis XV. reached his legal majority. The regent became chief
minister, and soon paid the penalty of his career of debauchery,
leaving as his successor the Duke of Bourbon, degenerate scion of the
great Conde and one of the chief speculators in the Mississippi
bubble. A perilous lesson had two years before bee... |
The closing years of the Well-Beloved's reign were years of
unmitigated ignominy and disaster. Indian conquests were muddled away,
and the gallant Dupleix died broken-hearted and in misery at Paris.
Canada was lost. During the Seven Years' War the incapacity and
administrative corruption of Madame de Pompadour's favour... |
During Louis XVI.'s reign little or nothing was done. Soufflot was
making feeble efforts to complete Perrault's north front when the
Revolution came to arrest his work. So lost to reverence and devoid of
artistic sentiment were the official architects of this period, that a
sacrilege worse than any wrought by revolutio... |
Crowned vice was now succeeded by crowned folly. The grandson of Louis
XV., a well-meaning but weak and foolish youth, and his thoughtless,
pleasure-loving queen, were confronted by state problems that would
have taxed the genius of a Richelieu in the maturity of his powers.
Injustice, misery, oppression, discontent, w... |
After the memorable cannonade at Valmy, a knot of defeated German
officers gathered in rain and wind moodily around the circle where
they durst not kindle the usual camp-fire. In the morning the army had
talked of nothing but spitting and devouring the whole French nation:
in the evening everyone went about alone; nobo... |
The Bastille, some time before its fall, was already under sentence of
demolition, and various schemes for its disposal were before the
court. One project was to destroy seven of the towers, leaving the
eighth standing in a dilapidated state. On the site of the seven, a
pedestal formed of chains and bolts from the dung... |
The king returned to Paris through an immense and silent multitude.
"Whoever applauds the king," said placards in the street, "shall be
thrashed; whoever insults him, hung." The idea of a republic as a
practical issue of the situation was now for the first time put
forward by the extremists, but met with little sympath... |
To the guillotine on the fatal Place de la Revolution, formerly Place
Louis XV., the very scene of a terrible panic at his wedding
festivities which cost the lives of hundreds of sightseers, the
sixteenth Louis of France was led on the morning of 21st January 1793.
As he turned to address the people, Santerre ordered t... |
The closing months of '95 were sped with those whiffs of grape-shot
from the Pont Royal and the Rue St. Honore, that shattered the last
attempt, this time by the Royalists, at government by insurrection.
The Convention closed its stupendous career, and five Directors of
the Republic met in a room furnished with an old ... |
It is easy enough to pour scorn on the _Contrat Social_ as a political
philosophy, but an ideal, a faith, a dogma are necessary to evoke
enthusiasm, the contempt of material things and of death itself. These
the _Contrat Social_ gave. It defined with absolute precision the
principles latent in the movement of reform th... |
In the street, the great open-air salon of the people, was a feverish
going to and fro. Here were the tub-thumpers of the Revolution holding
forth at every public place; the strident voices of ballad-singers at
the street corners; hawkers of the latest pamphlets hot from the Quai
des Augustins; the sellers of journals ... |
It is not within the scope of the present work to deal with the later
annals of Paris. Superficial students of her modern history have
freely charged her with political irresponsibility and fickleness; no
charge could be less warranted by facts. For a thousand years her
citizens were loyal and faithful subjects of a mo... |
Napoleon I.'s new streets near the Tuileries and the Louvre soon
became the fashionable quarter of Paris. The Italian arcades and every
street name recalled a former victory of the Consulate in Italy and
Egypt. The military glories of a revolutionary empire, which at one
time transcended the limits of that of Charlemag... |
NOTRE DAME.The traveller who stands on the Parvis before the Church of Our Lady
at Paris beholds the embodiment and most perfect expression of early
Gothic architecture, the central type and model of the new style
created by the genius of the masters of the Isle de France in the late
twelfth and early thirteenth centur... |
We return to the Porte Rouge in the Rue du Cloitre opposite which is
the Rue Massillon, where at Nos. 4 and 6 we may note some remains of
the cloisters and canons' dwellings, once a veritable city within a
city, fifty-one houses with gardens sequestered within a wall having
four gates. We continue to the Rue Chanoiness... |
We return to the Cour du Mai: on the R., before we ascend the great
stairway, we look down on the nine steps leading from the Vestibule
(now a Cafe Restaurant) of the Conciergerie, up which those doomed to
the guillotine ascended to the fatal tumbrils awaiting them in the
courtyard. We ascend to the Galerie Marchande: ... |
On the site of the Place stood the Petit Chatelet, demolished in 1782,
a gloomy prison where many a rowdy student was incarcerated. To the L.
of the Rue du Petit Pont[184] we turn by the Rue de la Bucherie and on
our R. find the Rue St. Julien le Pauvre. Here on the L., hidden
behind a pair of shabby wooden gates, stan... |
We continue along the Rue Bonaparte past the new Academie de Medecine
and on our L. soon sight the grey pile of the old Abbey Church of St.
Germain des Pres, once refulgent in colour and gold. A part of the
great tower is said to have resisted the Norman conflagrations, but
the church as we now behold it, is that rebui... |
The delightful old mansion, (p. 159) now the Musee de Cluny, is
crowded with a selection of mediaeval and renaissance objects
unparalleled in Europe for variety and excellence and beauty. The
rooms themselves, with their fine carved chimney-pieces, where on
winter days wood-fires, fragrant and genial, burn, are not the... |
We return to the Rue des Ecoles which we cross to the imposing new
University buildings. The vestibule, grand staircase and amphitheatre
are of noble and stately proportions and adorned with mural paintings,
among which Puvis de Chavannes' great composition, The Sacred Grove,
in the amphitheatre, is of chief interest.[... |
The nucleus of the gallery of sculpture and painting was formed by
Francis I. and the Renaissance princes at the palace of Fontainebleau,
where the canvases at the beginning of the seventeenth century had
reached nearly 200. Colbert, during the reign of Louis XIV. by the
purchase of the Mazarin and other Collections, a... |
We return to the Corridor de Pan and continue past the Salle des
Caryatides through halls filled with Graeco-Roman work of secondary
importance, to the sanctuary of the serenely beautiful Venus of Melos,
the best-known and most admired of Greek statues in Europe. Much has
been written by eminent critics as to the attit... |
The fourteenth-century Madonnas in these mediaeval rooms possess a
peculiar, intimate character and mark the change of feeling which came
over French artists of the time. The impersonal, unemotional and regal
bearing of the thirteenth-century figures give way to a more
naturalistic treatment. The Virgin's impassive fea... |
We cross the quadrangle to the N.W. and find the entrance to the Musee
des Sculptures Modernes, where we may trace the rapid decline and
utter degradation of French sculpture during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, and some signs of its recovery during the
revolutionary period. Many causes contributed to the d... |
We enter by the Pavilion Denon, in the middle of the S. wing, opposite
the Squares du Louvre which are bounded on the W. by the Place du
Carrousel and the monument to Gambetta. Turning L. along the Galerie
Denon we mount the Escalier Daru to the first landing below the Winged
Victory (p. 341), turn R., ascend to a seco... |
We return to the L. wall and note 1526, Signorelli's Adoration of the
Magi; further on are 1154, an excellent Fra Bartolomeo, The Holy
Family, and 1153, The Annunciation, a graceful and suave composition,
original in treatment, by the same master. We pass to some more Andrea
del Sartos: 1515, according to Vasari, a _No... |
The sweet and tender Luini is seen almost at his best in 1355, Salome
with the Baptist's head: other works by him are 1362, Silence, and
1353, a Holy Family. At the end of this section hangs 1169,
Beltraffio's, Virgin of the Casio Family, esteemed by Vasari the
painter's best production. We proceed to Section B, same w... |
We cross to the L. wall, devoted to the Spanish school. The recently
acquired El Greco (no number), King Ferdinand, is one of that master's
best works outside Spain. By Ribera, who was obviously much influenced
by the Italian Naturalists are: 1723, St. Paul the Hermit; 1722, The
Entombment; and 1721, Adoration of the S... |
Enclosing this hall are a series of Cabinets XX.-XXXVI., containing a
large and important collection of works by the Netherland painters. We
ascend, turn R., and enter Room XX., which is devoted to Franz Hals
and contains 2386 and 2387, superb portraits of Nicholas van Beresteyn
and his wife; and 2388 the same, with th... |
By Tintoret is 1464, Susannah; and by Veronese, the grand composition
that expatiates over the S. wall, 1192, known as The Marriage at Cana,
executed in his most pompous and stately manner for the refectory of
the Benedictine monastery of St. Giorgio Maggiore at Venice. The
artist is seen in the foreground playing a vi... |
which contains a series of most interesting historical portraits.
Among the sixteenth-century painters cited by Felibien,[214] the
Vasari of French painting, most of whom are but names to us, we may
distinguish the Clouet family of four generations. The senior Jehan,
born in Flanders in 1420, came to France in 1460 as ... |
also devoted to seventeenth-century artists. Lesueur is here seen in
another masterpiece; 560, R. wall, St. Paul at Ephesus, a _mai_[215]
picture; and 556, same wall, Christ bearing His Cross. The influence
of Raphael in the former is very apparent. The hierophant of the
school, Vouet, is represented in this room by so... |
The Louvre possesses sixteen Claudes, among which we may emphasise on
the L. wall, 310, View of a Port; 311, a poetic and glowing
representation of the Roman Forum, before the old Campo Vaccino, with
its romantic and picturesque aspect, had been excavated by modern
archaeologists. 314 and 316, Landing of Cleopatra at T... |
devoted to seventeenth-century art. Chief among the painters who
interpreted the refined sensuality and more pleasant vices of the age,
yet not of them, was Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), the melancholy youth
from French Flanders, who began by painting St. Nicholases at three
francs a week and his board, but who soon inv... |
It will now be opportune to make our way to the La Caze collection. We
pass out from the end of this room and descend the Escalier Daru to
the first landing; then ascend L. of the Victory of Samothrace to the
Rotonde, pass direct through the Salle des Bijoux, and turn L. through
Room II. toROOM I.The La Caze collection... |
We revert to David whose Oath of the Horatii, 189, exhibited in 1785;
and The Lictors bearing to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 191,
exhibited in the fateful year 1789, hang skied on the R. wall. These
paintings, hailed with prodigious enthusiasm, revolutionised the
fashions and tastes of the day and gave artistic expr... |
One of the most aggressive, ebullient and individual of painters was
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), whose harshly realistic Funeral at Ornans
we have seen in Room II. In 1855 Courbet, finding his works badly hung
in the International Exhibition at Paris, erected a wooden shed near
the entrance, where he exhibited thirty-... |
is the Salle Francaise du Second Empire and contains Horace Vernet's
well known, The Barriere de Clichy, Defence of Paris in 1814; and Ary
Scheffer's, Death of Gericault. 2938 is the great caricaturist
Daumier's portrait of Theodore Rousseau. Numerous examples of the
myopic art of Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier (1815-189... |
In 1141 a sloping bank of sand (greve), to the E. of the Rue St.
Martin and facing the old port of the Nautae at St. Landry on the
island of the Cite, was ceded by royal charter, to the burgesses of
Paris for a payment of seventy livres. "It is void of houses," says
the charter, "and is called the _gravia_, and is situ... |
The lofty Gothic interior, dating from the late fifteenth century, is
lighted by some sixteenth and seventeenth-century stained glass, and
among the pictures that have escaped transportation to the Louvre may be
noted a lunette over the clergy stalls R. of the nave, God the Father,
by Perugino; and a remarkable tempera... |
We set forth northwards from the Place du Chatelet, at the foot of the
Pont au Change, where stood the massive pile of the Grande Chatelet,
originally built to defend the bridge from the Norman pirates as the
Petit Chatelet was to defend the Petit Pont. It subsequently became
the official seat and prison of the Provost... |
Nos. 14 and 16, corner of the Rue de Sevigne, is the Hotel de
Carnavalet, a magnificent renaissance mansion, in raising which no
less than four famous architects had part--Lescot, Bullant, Du Cerceau
and the elder Mansard. For twenty years (1677-1697) it was the home of
Madame Sevigne, queen of letter-writers. Her _Car... |
Pursuing our way N. by the Rue St. Denis we pass (R.) the restored
fourteenth-century church of St. Leu and St. Gilles, and on our L. two
old reliefs of St. Peter and St. Andrew embedded in the corner of a
modern house at the corner of the Rue St. Denis and the Rue Etienne
Marcel. Near by stood the Painters' Gate of th... |
From the Palais Royal Station of the Metropolitain we issue before the
great palace begun by Richelieu (p. 212). To our L. stands the Theatre
Francais, occupied by the Comedie Francaise since 1799, on the site of
the old Varietes Amusantes or Palais Varietes built in 1787, a little
to the W. of Richelieu's Theatre of t... |
In the earlier days of the Revolution when its leaders looked for
sympathy to England, "a brave and generous nation, whose name alone
like that of Rome evokes ideas of Liberty," the people during an
exhibition of anti-monarchical feeling went about destroying the
insignia of royalty. On coming in the Palais Royal to th... |
The Place as we behold it dates from 1854, when the deep fosses which
surrounded it in Louis XV.'s time, and which were responsible for the
terrible disaster that attended the wedding festivities of Louis XVI.
and Marie Antoinette, were filled up, and other improvements and
embellishments effected. The vast space and m... |
No historical pilgrimage to Paris would be complete without a visit to
the Sanctuary of its protomartyr and the burial-place of its kings.
Taking train from the Gare du Nord, either main line or local
train-tramway and being arrived at the railway station of the grimy
industrial suburb of St. Denis, we cross the canal ... |
Bernard, St., 58, 59, 61, 63, 89, 92Bernini, 234, 235, 398Bibliotheque Nationale, 222, 429;
de l'Arsenal, 406Billettes, cloister of, 410Bishops, their power and patriotism, 30Blancs Manteaux, church of, 133Blancs Manteaux, the, 76, 142Boccaccio, 417Bonaventure, St., 78Boniface VIII., Pope, 107-109, 111Boulevards, ... |
Germain, St., des Pres, church and abbey of, 32, 36, 85, 89, 152,
319-321;
abbot's palace of, 321Germain, St., l'Auxerrois, 22, 30;
church of, 32, 44, 423Gervais, St., church of, 36, 402Gibbon, 255, _note_, 282Giocondo, Fra, 155Girondins, the, 311, 312Goethe, 259, 269, 275, 436Goldoni, 275Gothic architectu... |
Mississippi bubble, the, 243Molay, Jacques de, 111, 112, 113, 116Moliere, 224, 233Monarchy, growing power of, 174;
absolutism of, 220, 223Monasteries, reform of, 60;
suppression of, 284Montereau, Pierre de, 57, 88Montfaucon, 48;
gallows of, 201Montgomery, Count of, 172Montjoie, St. Denis, war cry of, _no... |
Salisbury, John of, 94Salons, the, 281Samaritaine, la, 210_Sans-culottes_, the, 274Savoy, Adelaide of, 232Saxony, Henry of, 47Scholars, poor, at Paris, 94Schools, rise of, at Paris, 90;
elementary, 106Scotus Duns, 78, 306Sculpture, French, 87Seigneurs, their lawlessness, 58Sens, archbishop of, 61, 114, 116Septembe... |
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DUKERIESDescribed by R. Murray GilchristPictured by E. W. Haslehust[Illustration]BLACK... |
Not only was Mary Stuart well acquainted with Worksop Manor, but later,
her son, James the First, on his first progress to London, became the
guest of Gilbert, Earl of Shrewsbury, her jailer's successor. In a
letter to his agent, John Harpur, this nobleman writes forewarning him
of the expected honour, and, after biddi... |
The chief officers were known as foresters, verderors, woodwards, and
agisters. Each verderor had the liberty of taking a tree out of Birkland
or Bilhagh; but this privilege seems to have been abused, since in later
years the officers were found to choose the best timber available, and
in William the Third's reign the ... |
The Elizabethan dramatists made good use of our hero, knowing well that
when he was presented on the stage the hearts of the people were moved.
In "a Pleasant Commedie called Looke About You", he appears as a
fresh-faced and pretty young nobleman, ever ready to do a good turn to
his friends, to whom everybody defers, a... |
Finest of the Welbeck trees is the "Greendale Oak", which in 1724 was
transformed, by cutting, into an archway, the aperture being 10 feet 3
inches high and 6 feet 3 inches wide, so that a carriage, or three
horsemen riding abreast, could pass through. From the branches cut off
at that time a cabinet was made for the C... |
She wrote several plays, concerning one of which, _The Humorous Lovers_,
Pepys tells us that although he would rather not have seen it, since it
was so sickeningly silly, yet he was glad, because he could understand
her better afterwards. At the end of the first performance, as a queen
of breeding, she stood up in her ... |
Fine herds of deer wander among the bracken and heath, and the trees are
haunted with happy squirrels. The park is thirteen miles in
circumference, and near the house the little River Meden spreads out
into a singularly picturesque lake, diversified with toy islands. The
Thoresby of to-day possesses an atmosphere of tr... |
The most agreeable memory Lady Mary preserved of this formal and
cold-blooded sire was that when a member of the Kit-Cat Club he
nominated her, then seven years old, as one of the toasts of the year.
The child was sent for, and, adorned with her very finest attire,
presented to the members. Her health was drunk, and he... |
Within easy walking distance, not far from the tantalizing glimpse of
the Rufford Avenue, a road turns eastward, passes a small wayside inn
dignified with the name of Robin Hood, and soon reaches what was known
as the King's House at Clipstone--to-day a lamentable ruin with no
trace of its former magnificence. Here the... |
Arabella Stuart was born at Chatsworth, and thenceforth all Lady
Shrewsbury's pride was fixed upon this granddaughter who might possibly
become a queen. At Rufford there are two curiously touching portraits of
this dreamy child, in whose sad little face one reads the promise of
untoward fortunes. In 1576 the Earl of Le... |
Thence Edwinstowe may easily be reached by a path across the green.
Historically the village is of some importance, since, according to
general belief, Edwin, the first Christian King of Northumbria, was
buried there. It is a sleepy, comely place; in winter the warm
colouring of old brick and tile is very pleasant to t... |
Produced by D Alexander and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive)THE STRANGE CASE OF
MORTIMER FENLEYBY LOUIS TRACYAUTHOR OFTHE WINGS OF THE MORNING,
NUMBER SEVENTEEN, ETC.GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NE... |
He carried himself like a cavalier, but the divine flame of art
kindled in his eye. He had learned how to paint in Julien's studio,
and that same school had taught him to despise convention. He looked
on nature as a series of exquisite pictures, and regarded men and
women in the mass as creatures that occasionally fitt... |
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