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 warre. The other long Galleries of Romances and Fables, painted by Simon Voyet and others, are much esteemed: the onely pity is, that such true painting should not have been employed upon true Histories.

The Salle of the Conference, is a stately Roome, where the Bishop of Eureux (afterwards called the Cardinal du Perron) in presence of King Henry the Fourth, the Chancellor, five Judges of both Religions, and the whole Room full of learned men, disputed with Monsieur Plessis Mornay, the Achilles of those of Charenton, The Hall of Maskes, and the Lodgings of Madame Gabrielle with her picture over the Chimny like a Diana hunting, are fine Roomes: yet the fair picture cannot hinder men from blaming her foul life, nor from censuring that Solœcism of the Painter, who made chaste Diana look like Madame Gabrielle. There are also here two Chappels, the old and the new. The old one is a poor thing; and seems to have ben built