Days near Paris . pels, to the east inthe transept, and as at Citeaux a square apse. The large buildingwhich prolongs the transept contained on the ground-floor thechapter-house,the sacristy, parlors, &c., and, above, the the entrance, is a very large grange. The dove-house is ata distance from the cloister, in the vast outbuildings whichsurround the abbey.—Viollet-le-Duc. The abbey of Vaux-le-Cernay was an especially covetedpossession. The poet Desportes possessed it, but withoutinterfering with any spiritual government. Henri III. VA UX-LE-CERNA Y 3 asked him why he had refuse
Days near Paris . pels, to the east inthe transept, and as at Citeaux a square apse. The large buildingwhich prolongs the transept contained on the ground-floor thechapter-house,the sacristy, parlors, &c., and, above, the the entrance, is a very large grange. The dove-house is ata distance from the cloister, in the vast outbuildings whichsurround the abbey.—Viollet-le-Duc. The abbey of Vaux-le-Cernay was an especially covetedpossession. The poet Desportes possessed it, but withoutinterfering with any spiritual government. Henri III. VA UX-LE-CERNA Y 3 asked him why he had refused the archbishopric of Bor-deaux; he replied that he dreaded the charge of dit le roi, et vous etes abbe! Navez-vous pascharge des ames de vos moines ? Non repondit Des-portes, car ils nen ont point. Another abbot commen-datory was Henri de Bourbon de Verneuil, bastard ofHenri IV., who, after a nominal rule of sixty years, threwit up to marry at the age of sixty-nine ; it was then given ..-/^-^^. AT VAUX-LE-CERNAY. to King Casimir of Poland, who had abdicated to takeorders. Pedestrians who wish to vary their return to Paris mayjoin the line to Rambouillet at Les Essarts du Roi. 40 k. Limours has a good XVI. c. church. The cha-teau, des mignons et des mignonnes des rois de France,was destroyed at the Revolution. Anne de Pisseleu, Dianede Poitiers, and the Due de Joyeuse were amongst itsowners. At 4 k. east, passing Forges-les-Bains^ is Briis,where a large square tower, with a round tourelle attached 3i2 DA YS NEAR PARIS to it, is called the Tour d^Anne de Boleyn^ and is pointedout as the remnant of a convent where the unfortunateQueen of England lived in her youth. When she cameover to France as maid of honor to Princess Mary on hermarriage with Louis XII., she was left by her father tocomplete her education at Briis. It is supposed that aconvent was chosen here for that purpose, because her an-cestor, Walter de Boleyn, was vassal-kinsman to the lordof Briis in 13
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