Paris . renne of the XVII. c, probably the housewhere Mme de Maintenon brought up the children of LouisXIV. and Mme de Montespan. At the end of the Rue deVaugirard is the Barrifere of the same name, outside whichis the Cimetilre de Vaugirard (now closed). Le cimetilre Vaugirard ^tait ce quon pourrait appeler un cime-tilre fan^. II tombait en d&uetude. La moisissure Ienvahissait, lesfleurs le quittaient. Les bourgeois se souciaient peu d8tre enterr& aVaugirard ; cela sentait le pauvre. Le Pere Lachaise, k la bonneheure ! 6tre enterre au Pere Lachaise, cest comme avoir des meublesen acajou. L^le
Paris . renne of the XVII. c, probably the housewhere Mme de Maintenon brought up the children of LouisXIV. and Mme de Montespan. At the end of the Rue deVaugirard is the Barrifere of the same name, outside whichis the Cimetilre de Vaugirard (now closed). Le cimetilre Vaugirard ^tait ce quon pourrait appeler un cime-tilre fan^. II tombait en d&uetude. La moisissure Ienvahissait, lesfleurs le quittaient. Les bourgeois se souciaient peu d8tre enterr& aVaugirard ; cela sentait le pauvre. Le Pere Lachaise, k la bonneheure ! 6tre enterre au Pere Lachaise, cest comme avoir des meublesen acajou. L^legance se reconnait la. Le cimetiere Vaugirard etaitun enclos venerable, plante en ancien jardin fran9ais. Des allees droites, h6tEL DE la DUCHESSE DE SAVOIE 419 des buis, des tuyas, des houx, de vieilles tombes sous de vieux ifs, Iherbe-tr^s-haute. Le soir y ^tait tragique, il y avail la des lignes Hugo, Les Misirables. Returning down the Rue de Vaugirard to the front of the. ,^j»^, hOtEL de la DUCHESSE DE SAVOIE. Luxembourg, the Rue Garanciere leads towards the Hotel de la Duchesse de Savoie (No. 8) was built by in 1538. In the time of Charles IX. it belonged toMarguerite de France, Duchesse de Berry, aijd wife ofEmmanuel Philibert, Due de Savoie. She gave it, ingratitude for his services, to her secretary, Raymond E E 3 420 PARIS Forget, who sculptured the words de la lib^ralit^ de maprincesse above the portal. At one time the hotel wasinhabited by the Marquis de Sourdiac, one of the creatorsof the Opera. It preserves its fagade of tall corinthianpilasters, with heavy capitals adorned with rams headsand foliage, and its court, where Mile Lecouvreur madeher debut in an impromptu theatre. The fountain in thisstreet was erected (in 1715) by Anne of Bavaria, widow of thePrince de Condd At No. 19 Rue Visconti, near this, is theHdtel de Rene dArgouges, where Racine lived at onetime, and where Lecouvreur lived for some years and the
Size: 1329px × 1879px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidcu3192409881, bookyear1887
