Paris . d here and belonged tothe Benedictines ; Catherine dOrl^ans, Duchesse dLongue-ville, bought it for Spanish Carmelites in 1605. The churchwas adorned with the utmost magnificence, the vault beingpainted by Philippe de Champaigne, and contained someof the finest pictures in Paris, and a number of tombs, in-cluding those of Cardinal de Bdrulle (1517) and of AntoineVarillas (1696). The crypt was of great antiquity and wassupposed to belong to a temple of Mercury, of whom therewas said to be a statue at the top of the gable of the church. NOTRE. DAME DES CARMELITES 329 more probably intende
Paris . d here and belonged tothe Benedictines ; Catherine dOrl^ans, Duchesse dLongue-ville, bought it for Spanish Carmelites in 1605. The churchwas adorned with the utmost magnificence, the vault beingpainted by Philippe de Champaigne, and contained someof the finest pictures in Paris, and a number of tombs, in-cluding those of Cardinal de Bdrulle (1517) and of AntoineVarillas (1696). The crypt was of great antiquity and wassupposed to belong to a temple of Mercury, of whom therewas said to be a statue at the top of the gable of the church. NOTRE. DAME DES CARMELITES 329 more probably intended for S. Michael It was here that-so many of the princesses of the blood royal and othereminent persons were buried in the time of Louis XIV., theRegency, and Louis XV. Here Louise Frangoise de la Baume le Blanc, Mile dela Vallifere, mistress of Louis XIV. and mother of the Comtede Vermandois and Princesse de Conti, took the veil, June 3,1675, in her thirty-first year, as Sister Marie de la CHAPEL OF LES CAKME5. Elle fit cette action, comme toutes les autres de sa vie, dunemjiniere noble et tout charmante. Elle etoit dune beauti qui sur-prenoit tout le monde.—Mme de Shiign^. Jan. 1680.—Je fus hier aux grandes Carmelites avec Madem-oiselle. Nous entrSmes dans ce saint lieu. Je vis Mme Stuart belleet contente. Je vis Mile dEpernon, qui me parut horriblementchangee. Mais quel ange mapparut k la fin ! Ce fut k mes yeuxtous les charmes que nous avons vus autrefois ; je ne la trouvai, ni See Hist, de IAcad, des Inscrip, ili. 300. 33° PARIS bouffie, ni jaune; elle est moins maigre et plus contente : elle a sesm^mes yeux et ses mgmes regards : Iausterit^, la mauvaise nourritureet le peu de sommell, ne les lui ont ni creus^s, ni battus : cet habit siStrange note rien k la bonne grace, ni au bon air ; pour la modestie,elle nest pas plus grande que quand elle donnait au monde unePrincesse de Conti; mais cest assez pour une Carmelite. M. deConti Iaime et rhonore tendrem
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