Days near Paris . was a member. A little east is the moated Chateau de Pontchartrain(see Ch. XVIII.). 38 k. Les Essarts du Roi,—To the right of the railway,before reaching this station the train passes the site of thePriory of Haute-Bruyere (destroyed at the Revolution),which was founded by the notorious Bertrade de Montfort,queen of Philippe I. Its chapel contained her tomb, withthose of her illustrious descendants, the Comtes Simon andAmaury de Montfort. Here also the heart of Francois I.,afterwards moved to St. Denis, was long preserved in avase of white marble. Nothing remains except the ^
Days near Paris . was a member. A little east is the moated Chateau de Pontchartrain(see Ch. XVIII.). 38 k. Les Essarts du Roi,—To the right of the railway,before reaching this station the train passes the site of thePriory of Haute-Bruyere (destroyed at the Revolution),which was founded by the notorious Bertrade de Montfort,queen of Philippe I. Its chapel contained her tomb, withthose of her illustrious descendants, the Comtes Simon andAmaury de Montfort. Here also the heart of Francois I.,afterwards moved to St. Denis, was long preserved in avase of white marble. Nothing remains except the ^ Journal du rigne de Charles VL RAMBOUILLET 341 Chapelle des Peres, for in the order of Fontevrault aconvent for men was always attached to a monastery for women. The chateau of Artoire was built under Louis may reach the ruins of Vaux le Cernay () in a walk of i|- hour from Les Essarts. 48 >^. Rambouillet (Hotel die Lio?i dOr; Dauphiti;Croix Blanche). A town almost confined to a single. CHATEAU DE RAMBOUILLET. Street, La Grande Rue, 3 k. in length: in it is a Hospicefounded by the Comte de Toulouse in 1731. The Chateau, preceded by a Cour dHonneur, has anenormous round tower, battlemented and machicolated,the only remnant of the ancient moated castle, which wasentered by a drawbridge, and which belonged to the familyDAngennes, of whom Jean dAngennes sold Cherbourgto the English. The last of the family was Charles dAn-gennes, whose wife, the Marquise de Rambouillet, wascelebrated as the literary leader of the XVII. c. Her 342 J>A YS NEAR PARIS eldest daughter brought Rambouillet by marriage to theDue de Montausier, governor of Monseigneur, son ofLouis XIV. The property was sold by Fleuriau dArme-nonville to the Comte de Toulouse, the legitimized youngerson of Louis XIV. and Mme de Montespan, whose son,the Due de Penthievre, sold it for sixteen million francsto Louis XVI. The king was devoted to the place, butMarie Antoinette detested it. Que voule
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