Days near Paris . tower gates remains, the Porte Baudry,built, as an inscription tells, by Thibault File-Etaupe, in1015, rebuilt by Henri III. in 1587, restored underNapoleon I. Through the Porte Baudry we reach thesuburb of Linas, where a great part of the church is XIII. c. A little west of Montlhery is Marcoussis, which hassome small remains of the fortress built at the end of the XIV. c. by Jean de Montaigu, Chancellor of the Ex-chequer under Charles VI., beheaded at the Halles in1409. His body was brought from the gibbet of Mont-faucon to be buried here in the Celestine convent which 2Q2
Days near Paris . tower gates remains, the Porte Baudry,built, as an inscription tells, by Thibault File-Etaupe, in1015, rebuilt by Henri III. in 1587, restored underNapoleon I. Through the Porte Baudry we reach thesuburb of Linas, where a great part of the church is XIII. c. A little west of Montlhery is Marcoussis, which hassome small remains of the fortress built at the end of the XIV. c. by Jean de Montaigu, Chancellor of the Ex-chequer under Charles VI., beheaded at the Halles in1409. His body was brought from the gibbet of Mont-faucon to be buried here in the Celestine convent which 2Q2 I^A YS NEAR PARIS he had founded.^ In the time of Henri III. the chateaubelonged to Frangois de Balzac dEntragues, the husbandof Marie Touchet, mistress of Charles IX., and it wasafterwards the residence of his daughter, Henriette dEn-tragues, at one time beloved by Henri IV. The chieftainsof the Fronde were imprisoned in the fortress, which waspulled down in 1805. The church, of 1388, has somegood stained PORTE BAUDRY, MONTLH^RY. The line continues by— 2^2 k. Brefigny, whQXQ the line to Tours by Vendomebranches off to the right. ^ His epitaph contained the words: Lequel, en haine des bons et loyauxservices par lui faits au roi et au royaume, fut, par les rebelles ennemis du roi,injustement mis i mort a Paris. Behind his head were the lines :— Non vetuit servata fides regi patriaequeNe tandem injuste traderet ipse neci; and above it- Pour ce quen paix tenois le sang de France,Et soulageois le peuple de grevance,Je souflfris mort centre droit et justiceEt sans raison ; Dieu si men soit propice. §ee Dulaure^ Environs de Paris, ETRECHY 593 On the line to Vendome, easily attainable in a daysexcursion from Paris, are— 45 k. Breuillet.—4/^. south is the magnificent Church ofSt. Sulpice-de-Favieres, founded to receive the relics of le Debonnaire, Archbishop of Bourges, and al-moner of Clotaire II., who died in 644. It is a splendidspecimen of late XIII. c.
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