[171] The picture, Une Dame présentée par la Madeleine, attributed to the Maître de Moulins at the Exhibition of Primitifs in the Pavilion de Marsan has now been acquired by the Louvre.
[172] M. Lafenestre, the Director of the Louvre, informs the writer that he sees no sufficient reason at present for modifying the traditional attributions of the pictures loaned by the Louvre to the Exhibition of the Primitifs in the Pavilion de Marsan.
[173] One of the few non-dramatic compositions of Molière is an eulogistic poem on Mignard’s decoration of this dome.
“O the fair statue! O the fair pedestal!
The Virtues are on foot: Vice is on horseback.”
“He is here as at Versailles
Without heart and without bowels.”
[176] A description of this and of other public balls of the Second Empire will be found in Taine’s Notes sur Paris, which has been translated into English.
[177] In 1664 we find Guilliaume roy des Ménéstriers, the viol players and masters of dancing, acting in the name of the foundation against the usurpations of the Fathers of the Christian Doctrine. In 1720 the title of the church was confirmed by royal decree as St. Julian of the Minstrels. The church and the street of the minstrels were swept away to make the Rue Rambuteau.
[178] It became the second Théâtre Français in 1819.