Paris . dee de ses belles experiences sur la pesanteur de Iair : cest la aussiquun soir, en sortant de chez Mine de Guim&^e, le melancolique deThou refut de Cinq-Mars Iinvolontaire confidence de la conspirationque devait mener tons deux a Iechafaud ; cest li, enfin, que naquitMme de Sevigne, et cest k cot^ quelle habitait.—Victor Cousin, La jeunesse de Mme de Longueville. Many of the hotels of the Place Royale were likemuseums of historic relics and works of art, especially thatof Richelieu and that of the Marquis de Dangeau. The PLACE DES VOSGES 185 ceilings of the hStel of M. da Nouveau were
Paris . dee de ses belles experiences sur la pesanteur de Iair : cest la aussiquun soir, en sortant de chez Mine de Guim&^e, le melancolique deThou refut de Cinq-Mars Iinvolontaire confidence de la conspirationque devait mener tons deux a Iechafaud ; cest li, enfin, que naquitMme de Sevigne, et cest k cot^ quelle habitait.—Victor Cousin, La jeunesse de Mme de Longueville. Many of the hotels of the Place Royale were likemuseums of historic relics and works of art, especially thatof Richelieu and that of the Marquis de Dangeau. The PLACE DES VOSGES 185 ceilings of the hStel of M. da Nouveau were painted byLebrun and Mignard. Houses were furnished with theutmost magnificence by the Comte de Tresmes, the Marquisde Breteuil, and the Marquis de Canillac; but most ofthese hotels were already abandoned by their aristocraticowners at the time of the Revolution, when the Comte deFavras, who had only lately settled in the Place Royale, wasaccused of plotting against the Government, and hanged like. PLACE DES VOSGES. a common malefactor. Many think that the golden periodof the Place did not arrive till it became the centre of theSociety of the NouveUes Frecieuses (deserters from thesuperior literary atmosphere of the Hotel de Rambouillet),which Molifere satirises in his comedy of the Frecieusesridicules. One of the leaders of this society was Mile deScud^ry, authoress of the long allegorical romance of Cyrus, 186 PARIS who came to settle in the Rue de Beauce, and whose Satur-days soon became the fashion, pour rencontrer des beauxesprits. For thirty years, under the name of Sapho, sheruled as a queen in the second-class literary salons of theMarais, which was known as L^olie or IEolie in thedialect of the Prkieuses, when the Place JDorique, as theycalled the Place Royale, was inhabited by Artemise or MUeAragonois, Roxane or MUe Robineau, Glicerie or the beau-tiful Mile Legendre; whilst Le grand Dictionnaire desPrkieuses (1661) informs us that CrisoUs or MUe deChavigny, and Nid
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