Days near Paris . tainly inoffensive. Whatever, too, werethe opinions of the solitaries, their morals were much could not be said of their adversaries. This war, de-clared against an institution which had made itself known onlyb)- its merits, whose members aspired to no power, is one of thesaddest pages in the history of the XVII. century. On the side ofPort Royal were virtue, conscience, light, great works ; on theside of their adversaries was craft. It was craft that triumphed.—P. Barrere, * Les /cnvains fran^ais, 338 £>AVS NEAR PARIS It was in January, 1710, that the de
Days near Paris . tainly inoffensive. Whatever, too, werethe opinions of the solitaries, their morals were much could not be said of their adversaries. This war, de-clared against an institution which had made itself known onlyb)- its merits, whose members aspired to no power, is one of thesaddest pages in the history of the XVII. century. On the side ofPort Royal were virtue, conscience, light, great works ; on theside of their adversaries was craft. It was craft that triumphed.—P. Barrere, * Les /cnvains fran^ais, 338 £>AVS NEAR PARIS It was in January, 1710, that the destruction of thebuildings of Port Royal was ordered by royal edict, and,in 1712, the church was pulled down. The bodies of theArnauld family, of Racine, De Saci, and Lemaitre had al-ready been removed by their relations, but the tombs ofthe other Port-Royalists were desecrated and their remainsexhumed. Port Royal is now the property of the Due de Luynes,who has cleared out the area of the noble church (built by. PORT ROYAL. the architect of Amiens cathedral), showing the bases ofits columns. A walnut tree is pointed out as contempo-rary with the Mere Angelique, and a well which is calledla fontaine de la Mere Angelique. The cellars of theHotel de Longueville also exist, and considerable remainsof Les Granges. Amongst the many monumental slabstorn up from the church were those of the Arnaulds, andSacys, of Nicole, Pascal, and Racine. The last, after find-ing a temporary resting-place in the church of Magny-les- LEVY-SAINT-NOM 339 Hameaux, is now in St. Etienne du Mont at Paris. Manyof the bodies from Port Royal were removed to the churchof St Lambert on the road to Chevreuse, with some monu-ments to the nuns, which may still be seen. A drive from Versailles or Trappes to Port Royal mayeasily be continued to embrace Dampierre and Chevreuse,whence one may return to Paris by the line from Limours(see Ch. XVI.). It is 5 k. from Port Royal to Dampierre,or 6 k. (direct) to Chevreus
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