Volume 2

France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan.

  • Sydney, Lady Morgan
Date:
1831
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: France in 1829-30 / By Lady Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing faithfully and amusingly the scenes which have occurred in the Palais Royale, forms an interesting part of the collection. Every one knows the history of this edifice. It was built by Cardinal de Richelieu, and bequeathed by him to his royal victim, as being fit only for the residence of kings. It had been the scene of his own gorgeous pomp of representation. There, was his chapel, in which he celebrated mass, like Leo the Tenth. There, too, was his theatre, in which he listened to his own cold and pedantic compositions, and in which his vanity was taught so cruel a lesson, in the in- voluntary homage paid to the poor and humble Corneille, while it was denied to his own all potent but ineffective muse. There, also, is the cabinet of his wily successor in the double ministry of church and state, Mazarin, where the weak and devoted Anne of Austria was duped into measures which roused the nation to a sense of its degradation, and nearly cost her son his crown. In the Palais Royale Louis
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