_Le Noir’s_ favourite plan of having a chapel for each century, ornamented with all the appropriate decorations, and containing the tombs of contemporary persons, is in part executed, and three or four ages have already their respective temples, completed in the taste of the times which belonged to them. These chapels have been much admired by persons, whose knowledge on such subjects entitle them to respect; and it would, therefore, be presumptuous in me to give a dissenting voice. I shall be pardoned, however, for remarking, that there appeared, in the whole arrangement, a kind of quackery, which prevented my feeling that unalloyed satisfaction which I had been led to expect; and that, in spite of my better judgment, I felt an inclination to laugh, when perhaps my tears ought to have flowed. As every body must rejoice at the preservation of these monuments, whatever opinions he may entertain about the arrangement, I cannot help regretting, that they are not deposited in a place more worthy of containing them. Since the restoration of religion has removed every obstacle which could be started to such a project, would it not be worthy of the present government, decidedly the friend and protector of the arts, to order that all these precious specimens of sculpture should become the ornament of one or more of the principal churches of Paris, the present naked state of which is an additional argument in favour of the measure? What splendour would they not both receive and confer, in being removed either to _Notre Dame_, _St. Sulpice_, or _St. Généviève_? To satisfy the curiosity which I know you entertain on such subjects, I examined, with attention, the principal objects, and marked in my catalogue those which seemed most deserving of notice. The following is the list: No. 5. The tomb of Dagobert, with the figures of Nautilda his wife, and Clovis his son. 94. The tomb of Lewis XII. 99. The Monument, or sepulchral Chapel, of Francis the First, with Claude his wife.—(Destroyed in the revolution, and restored by le Noir.) 105. Monument erected in honour of Ann of Montmorency. 111. A group of Graces. 113. Statue of Henry the Fourth of France, assassinated in 1610, clad in a military dress. The artist was _Francavilla_, or _Francevelle_, as he was otherwise called. The catalogue mentions, that judging from the body, found at St. Denys in 1793, and which was yet perfect, one should suppose that this was a striking likeness. 115. Statue of _Claude Catherine de Clermont Tonnere_. 121. Statue in black marble, representing David after the death of Goliath, by _Peter Francavilla_, in 1580.