LETTER VI.

The _Louvre_ or _National Palace of Arts and Sciences_ described --_Old Louvre_--Horrors of St. Bartholomew's day--From this palace Charles IX fired on his own subjects--Additions successively made to it by different kings--_Bernini_, sent for by Lewis XIV, forwarded the foundation of the _New Louvre_, and returned to Italy--_Perrault_ produced the beautiful colonnade of the _Louvre_, the master-piece of French architecture--Anecdote of the Queen of England, relict of Charles I--Public exhibition of the productions of French Industry.