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SInce the taking down of the four Gates which divided this Faux-bourg from the rest of Pa∣ris, it hath been call'd
The Quarter of St. Germain's;
And doubtless this is the fairest and largest of all the other Quarters, on the account of
its extent, the number of its fair Houses, and the quantity of its Inhabitants: on those accounts this one Faux-bourg may be compa∣red with some great Towns in Europe, which are much talk'd of, according to the Opinion of Strangers themselves; to whom the dwellings here appear so pleasing, that they prefer this part of the Town to all the rest of Paris: and they have reason for so doing, since all things a∣bound here, and the Air is very pure, the Houses being divided from one another by se∣veral Gardens. Besides other advantages, all sorts of Exercises are taught here; and perhaps there is not in the whole World any one Town in which one may reckon no less than Six Acade∣mies, as you may in this Quarter; filled, for the most part, with all the illustrious Youth of France and Germany; who come hither to learn all things that can make a Gentleman accom∣plished and capable of gaining Reputation in the World. Sometimes in one Winter there has been reckoned here Twelve Foreign Princes, and more than Three hundred Earls and Ba∣rons, not counting a much greater number of ordinary Gentlemen, whom the reputation of France draws hither with a mighty desire to learn our Language, and those Exercises which are no where taught in their parts with equal perfection. The Six Academics bearing the names of the Six principal Riding-Masters who Teach at them, are,
This Quarter takes its Name from the Abby Royal of St. Germain des Prez in the midst of it, which is one of the Ancientest and Richest of the Kingdom. Of which we must speak in a parti∣cular manner.