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PItESENT OCCUPANTS. .367
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Ibeing then one of the wealthiest subjects in France , could afford to have the old castellated and moated castlewith its drawbridge
, > barbican after lan , to s by be pulled Philibert down de , Lornie and a . new Wlien one in erected possession on its of site tlie ,
Cardinal p , Mary Queen of Scots passed much of her time at Meudon , the- Guises frequentlbringing * , her here to free her from the
irksome ceremonial with y which , when a child , she was surrounded at St . Germains en Laye . Whilst staying here she was also
eman-. facing her cipated mornings the from Chateau the in hunting surveillance there is and still of hawking a Catherine heathery . On de opening the Medicis brow in , of the and the forest spent hill ,
in the centre of which stands a very ancient oak called le ch _^ ne de la Heine d ' ' Ecosseand whence a view is . obtained of the heights of
3 Bellevue andVal _, Fleury , with their ponds and streamlets sparkling on days with more than diamond brightness . From this
. rain Mil- sunny s side and glade crossed , a continually precipitous b p y ath tlie , formed bared roots by the of violent elms , beeche winter s ,
and other , treesdescends into a gorge where there is a well _dedicate [ Regent d to of St . Scotlan Mary , d Mag , and dalen which , tlie tradition patroness . still of asserts _Marj _^ , Ghiise that , the the
Queen of Scotland , during her girlhood , was in the habit of * visiting it , to to protect implore her , at mother its brink then , at the saint war supposed with the to lords watch of
over , , open her Anne congregation of Este spent . her widowhood at Meudonand the leaguers N
, assembled there to plot against Henry III . and Henry IV . After the death of the Prince of Lorraine , it passed from
the hands of the Gruise family into those of St . Servien the Minister of Finance durinthe Regency . As the saying is ,
g he who boug fallin ht it " in for love a song with " from Madame _tlie gr de and Servien ne £ _3 hew for of her the fine Car voice dinal , , g
_^ otherwise and being hav also e in done wan in t of sellin money g , it felt for less an reluctance insignificant in the than sum he . mi But ght to
St . Servienif not a liberal bidderwas lavish sums spent beautifhis , new domainfor it was , he who built the magnificent terrace y which commands , a still finer prospect than the far-famed
• one seen from the terrace of St Germains en Laye . Even _Fouqtiefc in later times did not appropriate to the embellishment of Ms
acqui treasury parks siti and on as did of gardens the St . adjoining _IServien at "Vaux to lands , the so buildin much of the g money of Abbey the from terrace of St . the Germaine , and publi the c
. de Preswhich cost 86000 livres . The courtiers of Mary de Medicis naturall , y began to wonder , where the Minister of Finance could
. / have after he discovered enclosed such with a a treasure wall the as estate he evidentl of Meudon y possessed they could ; and
. , while not hel p making strove to guesses the which Prince went Regent very to near inquir the e into truth tlie , ey urge
Pitesent Occupants. .367
_PItESENT OCCUPANTS . . 367
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1863, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081863/page/7/
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