One or two more pictures by Vouët may be seen; and in the chapel of the Redemption are the frescoes of M. Glaize, one of the few painters who seems to have understood the spirit in which a church should be decorated. [Illustration: L'ADORATION PERPÉTUELLE AT SAINT-EUSTACHE.] S. Eustache was a royal parish up to the great crash at the end of the last century; its domain extended from the Chaussée des Gaillons to the Rue S. Denis, and being in the centre of the great world, it was very fashionable. Hard by were the royal palaces, and the new and "magnifique bastiment de l'hostel royal dit des Tuileries lez Paris, pour ce qu'il y avoit anciennement une tuilerie audict lieu," the _chef-d'œuvre_ of Philibert Delorme, built by order of Catherine de' Medici to outrival the Château d'Anet, erected by the same great artist for the irregular queen, the lovely Diane. Not far from the Place Royale, and in the centre of a nest of hotels belonging to great and noble personages, S. Eustache became the praying-place of the living and the burial-place of the defunct notabilities. The great ministers of Henri III., Louis XIII., and Louis XIV. lived in the parish: the Duc d'Epernon, in the Rue Platrière (now Jean-Jacques-Rousseau, by reason of the sage having occupied the 4th _étage_ of No. 49, in the year 1770); Cardinal Richelieu, in the Rue St.-Honoré, au Palais-Cardinal, otherwise the modern tourist's hunting-ground, the Palais-Royal; and Mazarin, the Rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs. The _curés_ were naturally much in vogue as confessors and directors to these high personages and their swarms of followers and appendages--men and women. One of the rectors, preaching in 1537, before the King (François I.), the Cardinal de Lorraine, brother of the Duc de Guise, the Cardinal de Tournon, and ladies and gentlemen of the court, seems to have been shaky in his theology, according to some of his hearers, but _estonnant de vérité_, quoth others. Even the royal mind itself was unquiet for several days, but upon persuasion by the Cardinals it became reassured. It was a time of troubles, civil and religious. The church work was stopped, and horrors were around, for in 1558 a poor student, denounced as a Lutheran by an old zealot of the weaker sex, was dragged out of the church and massacred upon the steps. But to return to Messire Jean Lecoq, the aforesaid _curé_. In the choir is his tomb, where he was buried with several of his relatives. His epitaph, bearing his arms _d'azur au coq d'or_, is as follows: _Nobilis venerabilis D. Magister Joannes Lecoq._ _Hujus ecclesiæ pastor_--1568. ANT. LECOQ, SEIG. D'ESGRENAY ET DE CORBEUIL (frère du curé), 1566. F. PAJOT, SEIGNEUR DE BURY, mari D'ESTIENNETTE LECOQ, 1563 F. PAJOT, SEIG. D'AUTEUIL, LEUR FILS, 1583.