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92 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 206.
the bookshops along the Seine, which are of no particular
importance. I was also in the hospital belonging to Notre
Dame where there are many beds ; I saw there the entrance
for foundlings (l’entrée pour les enfans trouvés). I had a sight
of the Queen of Spain.
September 9. I was in the following churches : Notre
Dame, St. Sulpice, St. Paul, and others.
September 10, 11. I was engaged in making the outlines
of my work on the atmospheres in general (de auris in
genere). On the 11th I called on Ambassador Gedda.*
September 12. I was in the Rue St. Paul ; in the Place
Royale where the statue of Louis XIII may be seen ; like
wise on the Isle of Notre Dame.
September 13. I was in the Comédie des Italiens, and in
sundry other places in town, also in the bookshops.
September 14. I visited the Opera, which is magnificent;
the Chambre des Imprimeurs et Libraires; and the Comédie.
September 15, 16. General Stenflycht‡ came and lodged
in the same house where I stayed.
* Baron Niclas Peter von Gedda, born in 1675, whose acquaintance
Swedenborg made in Paris in 1713, when von Gedda was there as the
secretary of a commission (Kommissions- Sekreterare) · see Document 46,
p. 230 ; and whom he describes there as being "well known to a part of
the learned, and versed in scientific studies and literary history." He be
came Minister Plenipotentiary of Sweden at the French Court in 1730 ; in
1736, soon after Swedenborg met him in Paris, he was made Secretary of
State, and in 1739 Court-Chancellor, as appears from Document 124, Vol. I,
p. 363. He died in 1758.
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This statue, which was erected by Richelieu in 1639, was destroyed
in 1792 ; the present equestrian statue of marble was put up in 1829.
Johan Segersten, after being ennobled in 1716 Stenflycht, was a brave
Swedish soldier. His first military instruction he received in the Imperial
army in Hungary, which he entered in 1691, afterwards he distinguished
himself in the Swedish army, where he rose in 1713 to the grade of lieu
tenant-colonel. In 1719 he retired from the Swedish army, and became
major-general in the army of the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp ; in 1733 he
entered the service of King Stanislaus131 of Poland in the capacity of Gene
ral ; after the peace of Vienna in 1735, he accompanied Stanislaus to France,
and became lieutenant-general in the French army ; ’ in the following year
General Stenflycht met Swedenborg in Paris. In 1738 he became com
mander-in-chief in Hamburg, from which post he retired in 1742. In 1743
Swedenborg and he met again at Ystad (see Document 207). He died in 1758.
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