Days near Paris . t Vincennesas at Paris, placed against the pillars, at the height of the window-sills, and supported by consoles and covered with canopies. Thesupporting walls beneath the mullions were not adorned witharcade work at Vincennes, but were probably at one time fur-nished with wooden bars and tapestry. The windows of theapse alone have kept their stained glass, which was painted inthe XVI. century by Jean Cousin, and represents the Last Judg-ment. Among the stained windows of the renaissance, these cantake the first rank ; they are well composed and of fine execution. 248 DAVS NE
Days near Paris . t Vincennesas at Paris, placed against the pillars, at the height of the window-sills, and supported by consoles and covered with canopies. Thesupporting walls beneath the mullions were not adorned witharcade work at Vincennes, but were probably at one time fur-nished with wooden bars and tapestry. The windows of theapse alone have kept their stained glass, which was painted inthe XVI. century by Jean Cousin, and represents the Last Judg-ment. Among the stained windows of the renaissance, these cantake the first rank ; they are well composed and of fine execution. 248 DAVS NEAR PARIS The roof of the Sainte Chapelle at Vincennes, constructed ofoak, and planned with great perfection, was surmounted only bya very small, simple spire that no longer exists.—Viollet-le-Duc, In the stained glass of the Last Judgment (saved duringthe Revolution, in the Musee des Petits-Augustins), thefigure of Diane de Poitiers is pointed out—naked, hergolden hair encircled by a blue riband. In the former. CHAPEL OF VINCENNES. sacristy (left of choir) is the tomb, by Deseine, erected byLouis XVIII. to the Due dEnghien, whose body, buriedon the spot where he fell, was then exhumed from themoat and brought to the chapel. The Due de Bourbon,who died at St. Leu in August, 183O;, vainly implored inhis will to be buried here by his son. The donjon is a lofty square tower, with a turret ateach angle. It is five stories high, and when the castlewas a royal residence, the king occupied the first floor, the ViNCEyjVES 249 queen and her children the second, the rest of the royalfamily the third, the guards and servants the fourth andfifth. Some of the panelling and wood-carving of theroyal apartments is now to be seen in the Salles His-toriques of the Louvre. Amongst the many illustriousprisoners immured here were the leaders of the Fronde(1650), of whom the Prince de Conde amused himself bythe cultivation of flowers, which produced the verses ofMile de Scudery:— En voyant ces
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