Paris . harlesde Bourbon. He sold it to Henri de Bourbon, Due de Mont-pensier, whose daughter was the first wife of Gaston dOr-l^ans. By his widow it was sold to the handsome Rogerde S. Larry, Due de Bellegarde, who employed AndronetDucerceau to rebuild it magnificently, but was exiled toAnjou by Henri IV. for being too familiar with GabrielledEstrdes. At a later date the poet Racan lived in thehotel as page of M. de Bellegarde. In 1633 the house wasbought by Chancellor Siguier, who received Louis Anne of Austria here at a splendid banquet and ballto celebrate the end of the war of the
Paris . harlesde Bourbon. He sold it to Henri de Bourbon, Due de Mont-pensier, whose daughter was the first wife of Gaston dOr-l^ans. By his widow it was sold to the handsome Rogerde S. Larry, Due de Bellegarde, who employed AndronetDucerceau to rebuild it magnificently, but was exiled toAnjou by Henri IV. for being too familiar with GabrielledEstrdes. At a later date the poet Racan lived in thehotel as page of M. de Bellegarde. In 1633 the house wasbought by Chancellor Siguier, who received Louis Anne of Austria here at a splendid banquet and ballto celebrate the end of the war of the Fronde, and whofirst conceived the idea of the Acaddmie Frangaise, founded ^ Bratitome, Vie des damesga-lantes. Piganlol de la Force, Desc. de Paris. COUR DES FERM-ES S13 by Richelieu. After tlie death of the cardinal he was chosenpresident of the society, and for thirty years its meetingswere held at the Hotel Siguier. The chancellor died herein 1672, and his magnificent funeral service at the Oratoire. hAteL DE TOULOUSE (bANQUE DE TRANCe). is described by Mme de S^vignd. His hotel was then pulleddown, and the Hotel des Fermes du Roi built on its site byLedoux. At the Revolution this was sequestrated andbecame a prison, then a theatre, finally a diligence now remains of it. L L SH PARIS In the Rue Neuve des Petits Champs^ which leads west-wards from the Place des Victoires, No. 45, at the corner ofthe Rue S. Anne, is the noble mansion of Lulli, built for himby Gittard in 1671, with 11,000 livres (lent by Molibe, andonly repaid in ingratitude). The land which Lulli purchasedfor building, and which up to that time remained quite un-occupied, was at the foot of the hillock called Butte S. , who died in the house, bequeathed it to his father-in-law, Lambert. It is very richly adorned with Corinthiancapitals, comic masks, and a sheaf of lyric attributes. TheHotel de S. Pouange, on the opposite side of the RueS. Anne, was destroyed by the Rue Chabanais. The
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