Paris . graissait les bottes pour le grand voyage. II laissa, assure-Pon, sousforme de scelld, cette inanifere de testament: Je nai rien vaillant, jedois beaucoup; je donne le reste aux pauvres. On lui attribue deuxautres mots, qui sont bien dans son caractere : Je vais chercher ungrand peut-etre. Et enfin, avec un eclat de rire : Tirez le rideau,la farce est jou&. —P. Barrire, Les ecrivains fran^ais. The body of Charles de Gontaut, Due de Biron, executedin the Bastille under Henri IV., was brought to the church-yard of S. Paul, with that of the Man with the Iron Mask, * Saint-M^grin, who was
Paris . graissait les bottes pour le grand voyage. II laissa, assure-Pon, sousforme de scelld, cette inanifere de testament: Je nai rien vaillant, jedois beaucoup; je donne le reste aux pauvres. On lui attribue deuxautres mots, qui sont bien dans son caractere : Je vais chercher ungrand peut-etre. Et enfin, avec un eclat de rire : Tirez le rideau,la farce est jou&. —P. Barrire, Les ecrivains fran^ais. The body of Charles de Gontaut, Due de Biron, executedin the Bastille under Henri IV., was brought to the church-yard of S. Paul, with that of the Man with the Iron Mask, * Saint-M^grin, who was looked upon as the mignon of the Duchesse de Guise,was murdered by her brother-in-law, the Due de Mayenne, in the Rue S. Honore,July 21, 1578. 5. PAUL LES CHAMPS 199 who died in the Bastille in 1703, and hgre also were buriedthe four skeletons which were found chained in the dungeonsof the Bastille in June 1790. One year more and both churchand cemetery were closed ; they were sold as national pro-. IN THE RUE DE K, PAUL. perty in December 1794, and two years afterwards theywere demohshed for house-building. The crowded bodieswhich formed the foundation were not removed before thehurried erection of Nos. 30, 32, 34 of the Rue S. Paul, forfifty years later the proprietors, making new cellars, came 200 PARIS upon masses of bones, and even entire coffins, in lead andwood. The Convent of Ave Maria only received that nameunder Louis XI. It was originally occupied by Bdguines,brought by Louis IX. from Nivelle in Flanders in the number of these uncloistered nuns (who tooktheir name from S. Bague, daughter of a maire du palais ofking Sigebert) amounted to four hundred, known in Parisas Devotes, though, according to the poet Thomas Chantprd,they led by no means an exemplary life. When they after-wards dwindled in numbers, Louis XI. gave their convent,under the name of Ave Maria, to the Poor Clares, whoflourished greatly under the patronage of his widow, QueenCharlotte.
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