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SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS IN 1736.
and anatomy. At the entrance into the garden where the
buildings are situated is also Pitton de Tournefort’s* cabinet
of curiosities, as well as an herbarium of upwards of 6000
plants. Close by is a place for storing wood.
Near the garden is the Hôpital de la Pitié, which is an old
institution ; there boys and girls are trained for work ; they
thence go into service or are married ; they are also sent to
the colonies. It belongs to the Hôpital Général, of which it
is a branch.
On the way I passed St. Geneviève. The monastery dates
from the fifth or sixth century, and belongs to the order of
the Augustines. The abbacy yields annually 70,000 livres.
The abbé has great power ; when a procession takes place
with the St. Geneviève,† he is invested with his mitre and
cross, and administers the benediction in the streets even to
the Archbishop of Paris. The monastery is very celebrated ;
it has a beautiful garden and a handsome library. St. Ge
neviève is there at the altar in the choir, richly decorated ;
her procession is magnificent, abounding with riches. Roche
fort [? ], as well as Descartes are buried in the church.‡
October 30. I was in the church of the Theatines near
the Pont Royal, and also in the church of the barefooted
Augustines near the Tuileries, where I heard Guillaume, the
chaplain of the king, preach ; he gesticulated like an actor on
the stage; yet he preached in a very superior style.
November 3. I was at the opening of the parliament in
the palace where it meets.§ On one side of the large hall
where an altar with a beautiful altar-piece is erected, the
sermon was delivered ; many candles were lighted, and music
* Jos. Pitton de Tournefort was a celebrated French botanist, he was
born in 1656, and died in 1708.
St. Geneviève is the patron saint of Paris.
The church of St. Geneviève was removed in the middle of the last
century, on account of its delapidated condition. The magnificent church
which was erected in its place was called the "Panthéon," by a decree of
the year 1791. By a recent decree dating from the year 1851 its former
name "Eglise Ste. Geneviève" was again restored, yet the building still
passes in Paris under the name of the "Panthéon," and the name "Ste.
Geneviève" is restricted to the library.
§ Palais de Justice, on the island called La Cité.
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