A new description of Paris containing a particular account of all the churches, palaces, monasteries ... with all other remarkable matters in that great and famous city / translated out of French.

The Gate of St. Denis.

Of all the new Gates which the Eschevins have built since they first undertook by the Kings Or∣der to beautifie the City of Paris, this is the most magnificent. It is built upon the same Foundation where the old Gate stood, which was very inconvenient This new building is three∣score and eleven foot high and of the same wide∣ness. The overture of the Gate it self is four and twenty on each side. This overture is accompa∣nied on each side with Pyramids charged with Trophies of War, under their Pedestals on each hand they have contrived a lesser Gate, as an additi∣••n to the great one in the middle; overwhose Arch •• a Bass relief, representing on the town side, the ••assage over the Rhine, and on that side next the Fauxbourg, the taking of Maestricht: and lastly, to render the whole more intelligible, under each Pyramid these inscriptions are engraven upon Ta∣bles of white Marble on the side next the City,

EMENDATA MALE MEMORI BATAVO∣RUM GENTE.
PRAEF. ET AEDIL. PONI CC.
ANN. R. S. H. M. DCLXXII.

The Dutch being Corrected. The Praefect and Aediles caused this to be set up, in the year from the Redemption of the World, 1672.

Quod Diebus vix Sexaginta Rhenum, Vahalim, Mosam, Isolam Superavit. Subegit Provincias tres, Cepit Ʋrbes munitas Quadraginta.

That in scarce sixty days, he pass'd the Rhine, the Wael, the Maes, and the Issel.

That he conquered three Provinces and took forty Walled Towns.

On the side next the Faux-bourg, as follows

QUOD TRAJECTUM AD MOSAM XIII. DIE∣BUS CEIPT.
PRAE••. ET AEDIL. PONI CC.
ANNO R. S. H. M. DCLXXIII.

In Memory of the taking of Maestricht in thirteen days. The Praefect and Aediles caused this to be set up, in the year from the Redemption of the World, 1673.

The Freese on each side hath this Inscription in Letters of Gold.

LƲDOVICO MAGNO.

To Lewis the Great.

This Gate is of a most magnificent appearance, and is in its kind one of the fairest Works of the World. The Top is uncovered after the manner of the old Triumphal Arches which are seen at Rome. Monsieur Blondel designed all the new Gates, and also all the other Imbellishments that are raised in Paris of late years; the Inscriptions also are his, which make that Learned Persons abi∣lity, appear extraordinary in all things.

In the Faux-burg we ought to see The House of the Fathers of the Mission of St. Laza∣rus. Of late years these Fathers have raised much building for the entertainment of their nu∣merous Society. Formerly this was a Maladrery, that is, an Hospital for Leprous People. But that Disease being ceased in this last Age, these Lazer houses have been converted to other uses, and this here being fallen into the hands of Father Vincent de Paul, Institutor of the Mission, it is become the head or principal Seat of all his Con∣gregation. Whose Institution is to go abroad into remote Villages and there to instruct the poor Peasants, and also to teach the young Clerks the Ceremonies of the Church; hence it is that at the four times appointed yearly for Ordination, all those who are to be presented to the Arch-Bishop for Orders, ought first to pass here eleven days in exhortations and instructions, during which time these Fathers are obliged to entertain

them freely, for on this condition they enjoy the Revenue of divers Lands that lye about their House.