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Title: Days near Paris
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Hare, Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert), 1834-1903
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Publisher: New York, London and Glasgow, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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, Schwartzenburg established himself inthe chateau and treated there with Ney and Coulaincourtupon the abdication of Napoleon I. After the Restorationthe chateau was restored by Aguado, Marquis de lasMarismas. 30 k. Fury-sur-Seine, connected by a suspension bridgewith Ftiolles, which belonged to the husband of Mme dePompadour. In later days the chateau was inhabitedby Count Walewski, Minister of Foreign Affairs to Napo-leon III. 31 k. Corl^ezV (Hotel Bellevue, near the bridge : de laBelle Image, good and reasonable)^ a considerable town,at the meeting of the Essonne and the Seine, which iscrossed by a handsome bridge of five arches. Of its five 2^4 DAYS NEAR PARIS ancient churches only one remains, the collegiate churchof St. Exupere or St. Spire, founded by Haymon, firstComte de Corbeil, in 950, rebuilt 1144, and served till1790 by a chapter composed of a secular abbe, twelvecanons, and six chaplains. It is approached by a verypicturesque gateway, Porte du Cioitre, from the principal
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PORTE DU CLOITRE, CORBEIL. Street. The west porch is under the tower. In a chapelright of the principal entrance is the tomb of Count Hay-mon, who is said to have built the church in honor of avictory over a two-headed dragon, and who died on hisreturn from a pilgrimage to Italy seven years after itsfoundation. In the same chapel is the monument of ESSONNES 285 Jacques de Bourgoin, who founded the College of Corbeilin 1661. The curious shrine of St. Spire was melteddown at the Revolution. In the collegiate buildings Abe-lard established his school, when he fled from Melun. Nothing remains of the church of St. Jean de IErmi-tage, which contained the relics of Sts. Quirin and Pience ;of Notre Dame, which claimed to have those of St. Yon;or of St. Jean en Ilsle, founded by Isemburge, the di-vorced Danish wife of Philippe Auguste, who was buriedin its south transept (1256), under a fine tomb, bearing ametal effigy. Near this church was the Palais de la Reine,usually given as a residence t

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