[168] According to Sir Thomas Browne, bodies soon consumed there. "'Tis all one to lie in St. Innocents' churchyard as in the sands of Egypt, ready to be anything, in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six feet as the _moles_ of Adrianus."--_Urn Burial_, p. 351. [169] The picture subsequently found its way to the apartments of Louis XVI., and followed him from Versailles to Paris. The attitude of this ill-fated monarch towards his advisers, says Michelet, was much influenced by a fixed idea that Charles I. lost his head for having made war on his people, and that James II. lost his crown for having abandoned them. [170] _French Painting in the Sixteenth Century_, by L. Dimier. London, 1904. [171] The picture, Une Dame présentée par la Madeleine, attributed to the Maître de Moulins at the Exhibition of Primitifs in the Pavilion de Marsan has now been acquired by the Louvre. [172] M. Lafenestre, the Director of the Louvre, informs the writer that he sees no sufficient reason at present for modifying the traditional attributions of the pictures loaned by the Louvre to the Exhibition of the Primitifs in the Pavilion de Marsan. [173] One of the few non-dramatic compositions of Molière is an eulogistic poem on Mignard's decoration of this dome. [174] "O the fair statue! O the fair pedestal! The Virtues are on foot: Vice is on horseback." [175] "He is here as at Versailles Without heart and without bowels." [176] A description of this and of other public balls of the Second Empire will be found in Taine's _Notes sur Paris_, which has been translated into English. [177] In 1664 we find _Guilliaume roy des Ménéstriers_, the viol players and masters of dancing, acting in the name of the foundation against the usurpations of the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine. In 1720 the title of the church was confirmed by royal decree as St. Julian of the Minstrels. The church and the street of the minstrels were swept away to make the Rue Rambuteau. [178] It became the second Théâtre Français in 1819. [179] It became the Théâtre Français in 1799, and was burnt down in 1900. [180] The word is derived from basilica, a law court. * * * * * Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber: the insigna of a president=> the insigna of a president {pg vii} counseller=> counsellor {pg 58} sublety=> subtlety {pg 87} in French story=> in French history {pg 131} Ville gagneé=> Ville gagnée {pg 137} facades=> façades {pg 149} soldier and gentlemen=> soldier and gentleman {pg 156} statemanship=> statemanship {pg 161} was flung out of window=> was flung out of a window {pg 172} chateâu=> château {pg 176} St. Medard=> St. Médard {pg 230} la Patrie reconnaisante=> la Patrie reconnaissante {pg 239} Galerie Merciere=> Galerie Mercière {pg 241} detention there rather in=> detention there rather than in {pg 251} sleep well=> sleeps well {pg 253}