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Title: Paris as seen and described by famous writers ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, (from old catalog) ed. and tr
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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entury later, anotherAbbe de Cluny, Jean de Bourbon, the natural son of JohnI., Duke of Bourbon, laid the foundation of the Hotel thatexists to-day. Probably these works accelerated the ruinof various parts of the ancient palace, which at that periodpresented a considerable series of buildings. As is known,it had been built by Constantine Chlorus, and successivelyoccupied by Julian, Valentinian and Valens during the stayof those Emperors in the north of Gaul. Some of ourkings of the first and second race held their court there.On looking at the immense halls that still exist and theRoman sub-structures, traces of which are found through-out the quarter, we can gain an idea of the truly colossalproportions of the ancient palace. The death of Jean de Bourbon, in 1485, interrupted thebuilding of the Hotel that had been begun ; but, five yearsafterward, it was resumed by his successor, the Abbe JacquesdAmboise (brother of the cardinal), afterwards Bishop of Clermont, who completed it. 148
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HOTEL DE CLUNY 149 Superb and magnificent, in fact, must have been theabode of the rich abbes who were brought to the court bytheir affairs. They were not the people to put up in an inn,much less in a monastery. Their house, as they modestlycalled it, in 1515 lodged a queen, Mary of England, widowof Louis XIL, and sister of Henry VIIL In 1536, Jamesv.. King of Scotland, on the day of his entry into Paris,alighted at the Hotel de Cluny, where he was received byFrancois I., who was going to give his daughter, Magdeleine,to him in marriage. After the kings, the princes of the House of Lorraineand the Papal Nuncios lodged in the House of Cluny. Icannot say whether the abbes leased or lent it, but I inclineto the latter for they were sufficiently great lords to exer-cise hospitality even toward sovereigns. However, at theend of the Eighteenth Century the hardness of the timesobliged them to get some return from their property. The Revolution did not allow them to collect their rentsvery lo

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