Bernini was splendidly received at Paris and employed in several works of sculpture, among which was a bust of Louis XIV., probably the one to which Wren refers. His design for the Louvre was accepted, and he had just begun to work it out at the time Wren wrote, but Colbert and the two Perraults stirred up so many difficulties that Bernini abandoned the task, and the Louvre was left in the hands of Claude Perrault. Bernini returned to Rome and died there in 1680. [104] _i.e._ Mosaic. [105] Wood. _Athenæ Oxoniensis_, vol. i. p. 735. He used certain peculiarities in the Act of Consecration which have been repeated at the consecration of the addition to the chapel, March 25, 1881. [106] _Diary_, September, 1666. [107] Evelyn's _Diary_, September, 1666. [108] That of Robert de Braybrook (Bishop of London 1382 and 1405). The tomb of Donne (Dean of S. Paul's 1621-1631) was not entirely destroyed. [109] The bricks, which were temporarily used in the building of S. Paul's, were of so good a quality that Richard Jennings, Wren's master carpenter, bought and transported them by water to Henley-on-Thames (his native town), and with them built a house a mile from Henley, which, bearing the name of 'Badgemore,' is still to be seen. The bricks of which it is built are often admired. [110] _Desiderata Curiosa_, p. 545. Peck. [111] Pepys' _Diary_, vol. v. p. 326. CHAPTER VII. 1668-1673. PATCHING S. PAUL'S--SANCROFT'S LETTERS--WREN'S EXAMINATION OF S. PAUL'S--SALISBURY CATHEDRAL--LONDON AS IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN--LETTER TO FAITH COGHILL--WREN MARRIES HER--TEMPLE BAR--S. MARY-LE-BOW-- ARTILLERY COMPANY--GUNPOWDER USED TO REMOVE RUINS. Methinks already from this chymic flame, I see a city of more precious mold, Rich as the town which gives the Indies name, With silver pav'd, and all divine with gold. Already, labouring with a mighty fate, She shakes the rubbish from her mounting brow, And seems to have renewed her charter's date, Which heaven will till the death of time allow. Dryden, _Annus Mirabilis_, ccxciii. After the death of Bishop Wren, Christopher was a frequent attendant at the Royal Society, where several experiments were made of raising weights by means of gunpowder, a matter which Wren was anxious to investigate before trying to remove the mass of ruins which had been S. Paul's. Much very tedious work of carting away rubbish and opening roadways still pressed on Wren and his assistants before even the necessary levels could be taken and adjusted or any building could be begun.