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100 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 206.
January 23, 24. I was at St. Denis where I saw the royal
vaults, as well as the treasures which are preserved there, of
which I shall treat more in detail below.
In connection with royalty in France there have further to
be mentioned : 1. Stanislaus Leczinsky, 131 King of Poland,
born in 1677, 2. Catharina Opalinsky, his queen, born in 1683,
3. There is in France a dowager-queen of Spain, born in
1669, 4. Also another personage, born in 1704, a daughter of
the Duke of Orléans.
In Spain are : 1. King Philip, born in 1683, 2. Queen Elisabeth
Fernese, born in 1692, 3. Ferdinand, Prince of the Asturias,
born in 1713, 4. His sister Marie, Queen of Portugal, 5. Don
Philippe, born in 1727, 6. Don Louis, Cardinal and Arch
bishop of Toledo, 7. Two princesses, one Marie Therese, and
the other Marie Antoinette ; besides Don Carlos.
In St. Denis a great number of curiosities were to be seen:
1. A piece of clockwork, representing the passion of Christ and
many other subjects, one after another, simply by means of
weights. 2. The church is antique, brought to perfection chiefly by
Dagobert;* the windows are curious on account of their stained
glass and figures ; all of the chapels are said to be rich. There
was a marvellous cross of solid gold ; a well-made iron grating,
and posts of metal. 3. On the way to St. Denis I saw pyra
mids erected to the memory of Philip the Bold, the son of
St. Louis, who had brought his father’s remains with him in
1271. 4. Dagobert, the grandson of Chilperic, as far as has be
come known, was the first who was buried here. St. Louis
caused a considerable number of epitaphs commemorating his
predecessors, to be set up here. 5. The statue of Charles VIII
is of black marble and bronze. 6. The tomb of Louis XII
is the finest in respect to architecture. 7. That of Louis XIV
is still covered, for it is not uncovered during the life-time of
* Modern investigations have shown, that there is not a trace left of
the first church built by Dagobert in 630, nor of the second which was
begun by Pepin in 754, and finished by his son Charlemagne in 775.
Suger, the celebrated Abbot of St. Denis, erected a new church, which was
dedicated in 1144, and destroyed by lightning a century later. The church
as reconstructed by St. Louis from 1234 to 1284 forms the basis of the
present building.
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