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98 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [ Doc. 206.
was played ; the gentlemen were in their red cloaks : a bishop
administered the pontifical rite.
The Sainte Chapelle,* which was built in 1245 by Louis
the Saint, was open ; I saw there two enamelled paintings, one
of which represented Christ on the cross, and the other His
resurrection ; they were oval and about three-quarters [of an
ell] high; they were surrounded by four smaller round paint
ings, with others between. They were all of great value. The
original painting was also shown, where the Emperor Baldwin
presents to Louis the Saint a number of relics of the cross,
the crown of thorns, the spear, clothes, sponge, &c., all of
which are preserved here ; they were obtained in Constan
tinople and purchased at a very high price.†
1737.
January. I was in the church of St. Geneviève ; she is
the patron saint of Paris. Her coffin, with an abundance of
genuine diamonds and surrounded with many candles, is placed
upon a high altar in the front part of the church.
There are four conseils (councils) in France, at which the
king presides : 1. Le Conseil d’état (the council of state). 2. Le
conseil des dépêches (the council of foreign despatches). 3. Le
conseil des finances (the council of finance). 4. Le conseil de
commerce (the council of commerce).
The council of state consists : 1. Of the king, 2. The Duke of
Orléans, the first prince of the blood royal, 3. Cardinal Fleury,
4. The keeper of the seals, 5. The Duke d’Estrées, the marshal,
6. M. Anguilliers, the secretary of state, 7. M. Orry, coun
cillor of state and comptroller of the finance.
The Keeper of the seals (Garde de sceaux) has in his charge
the foreign despatches from all the ministers, likewise dona
tions and brevets. The Comte de Maurepas, secretary of
state, transacts almost everything that concerns the affairs of
* The Sainte Chapelle, the former royal chapel, is in the southern court
of the Palais de Justice.
Louis the Saint is said to have purchased them from Jean de Brienne,
King of Jerusalem, and his son-in-law Baldwin, Emperor of Constantinople,
for three millions of francs.
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