Days near Paris . u and park werealike destroyed at the Revolution. In 1S15, after thebattle of Waterloo, Louis XVIII. conferred the title ofMarquis de Brunoy upon the Duke of Wellington. 45 k. Melun (Hotel du Grand-Monarque; du Com-merce) , prettily situated on the Seine, was a favorite resi-dence of the kings of France from the XL c. Their castle,at the east end of the island in the Seine was the placewhere Philippe I. died; where St. Louis celebrated themarriage of his daughter Isabelle with Thibaut of Navarre,and which was besieged by Henry V. of England in1420. MEL UN 263 The chateau was
Days near Paris . u and park werealike destroyed at the Revolution. In 1S15, after thebattle of Waterloo, Louis XVIII. conferred the title ofMarquis de Brunoy upon the Duke of Wellington. 45 k. Melun (Hotel du Grand-Monarque; du Com-merce) , prettily situated on the Seine, was a favorite resi-dence of the kings of France from the XL c. Their castle,at the east end of the island in the Seine was the placewhere Philippe I. died; where St. Louis celebrated themarriage of his daughter Isabelle with Thibaut of Navarre,and which was besieged by Henry V. of England in1420. MEL UN 263 The chateau was inhabited by Louis XIV. as a boy,but was totally demolished in 1740. The market-placehas a large fountain. Of the churches which remain, , in the main street, with good stained glass, isXV. c. ; Notre Dame, near the river, was founded in theX. c, and has two romanesque west towers. At theeast end of the town is the Chateau de Amyot, the learned bishop of Auxerre, was anative of STREET AT MELUN. 6 k. north-east, by a walk or drive across a dreary up-land plain, is the noble Chateau de Vaux-Praslin, built byFouquet, the famous surintendant de finances underCardinal Mazarin, with magnificent gardens laid out byLenotre, and internal decorations by Mignard and CharlesLebrun. The palace and gardens of Vaux cost eighteen millions, or,in the value of to-day, about thirty-five ; Fouquet built the palacetwice, and bought three hamlets, the ground of which was en- 264 DA YS NEAR PARIS closed in the immense gardens, partly planted by Lenotre, andthen regarded as the most beautiful in Europe. The fountainsof Vaux, which since have seemed less than mediocre after thoseof Versailles, Marly, and St. Cloud, were prodigies ; but yetbeautiful as was the house, the expenditure of eighteen millions,the vouchers for which still exist, proves that he was served withas little economy as he served the king with. It is true that SaintGermain and Fontainebleau, the o
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