A Hand-Book for Visitors to Paris; Containing a Description of the Most Remarkable Objects with General Advice and Information for English Travellers in That Metropolis, and on the Way to It (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878. Excerpt: ... in flint and bronze, &c. There are 2 more rooms in this suite; in the 2nd (m) a good stone chimney, having over it a bas-relief of our Lord at the Well of Samaria. In the next (iv) are several paintings of the early French school. From here a doorway leads through a narrow gallery (v) out of which opens a large hall (vi), where are exhibited several large specimens of Flemish tapestry. The most remarkable objects in this N Museum at the Hotel de Cluny--upper floor. hall are the 'ecclesiastical robes, crosiers, &c.--one, found in a tomb at Bayonne, belonged to a bishop of the 12th cent. A temporary passage leads from this into a large hall filled with very fine well preserved state carriages of the 17th and 18th cents. A wooden staircase brought from the Palais de Justice, with the arms and initials of Henry IV., leads from hall vi to an upper gallery (g) containing armour, old metal chests, measures, &c. Turning rt. are 3 halls (h, I, K) filled with old chests, furniture, Palissy and della Robbia ware, &c. From the first of these (h) we enter a room (d) with a bed and its furniture of the time of Francis I., and some illuminated MSS., and early printed books. The three rooms (o, B, A) which follow are more particularly designated as the Salles du Sommerard; in the first are several ivory triptychs and other sculptures; paintings of the early French and German schools, and some beautiful furniture in sculptured ebony. No. 1744, a set of chessmen in rock crystal, from the Garde-Meuble, said to have been given by the Old Man of the Mountain to St. Louis, &c. The large hall (b) forming the centre of the building contains the most precious objects of the museum: two large cabinets filled with Venetian glass, a very beautiful series of Limoges and early enamels...