A further recapitulation of these establishments would only be tedious to the reader, particularly as they are now for the most part become private houses; suffice it to say, that in the reign of Louis XIII twenty monasteries were established at Paris.  The nunnery of Ursulines; No. 47, Rue Sainte-Avoye, now a Jews’ synagogue.  The Convent of the Visitation of St. Mary, Rue Saint-Antoine, Nos. 214 and 216; the church, still standing, was built in 1632 after the model of Notre-Dame-de-la-Rotonde at Rome, and is called Notre-Dame-des-Anges.  Another convent of the same order was built in 1623 in the Rue Saint-Jacques, Nos. 193 and 195, and is I believe still occupied by nuns, as it was so very recently.  The convent of Filles-de-la-Madeleine, Rue des Fontaines, between the Nos. 14 and 16, which has now become a house of seclusion for women who have been convicted of offences.  The Convent of the Annonciades Celestes or Filles Bleues, founded by the Marchioness de Verneuil, mistress of Henry IV, is now in spite of all its pompous titles a waggon office in the Rue Culture-Sainte-Catherine, No. 29.  The Assumption, a convent for nuns, of which the church is still standing in the Rue Saint-Honore, between the Nos. 369 and 371, is remarkable for its large dome, but appears out of proportion with the rest of the building, which is otherwise not destitute of merit.  The Val-de-Grace, a Benedictine Abbey, Rue Faubourg Saint-Jacques, between the Nos. 277 and 279.  The Queen Anne of Austria founded the establishment in 1621; the church is still preserved in perfect order, and is of very rich architecture, too profuse in ornament.  The rest of the building, once inhabited by Benedictine nuns, is now an asylum for sick or wounded soldiers, being a military hospital. Port-Royal, a convent for nuns, established in 1625 in the Rue de la Bourbe, is now a lying-in hospital.  The Convent of the Filles de Sainte-Elisabeth; the first stone was laid by Marie de Medici in 1628, but was, like a multitude of others, suppressed in 1790, the church only remaining; it is situated in the Rue du Temple, between Nos. 107 and 109.

A Convent for Benedictine Nuns founded in 1636 in the Rue de Sevres, No. 3, being suppressed in 1778, was converted into the more useful purpose of an hospital, and as such it still remains.  The Convent of the Filles de la Ste-Croix, situated No. 86, Rue de Charonne, was occupied as recently as 1823 by nuns; it was founded in 1639.  The noble church of St-Roch, Rue St-Honore, was commenced as a chapel in 1587, and in 1622 was converted into a parish church, but was not entirely finished until 1740.  It is now the church attended by the royal family, and is an object of interest to every one who visits Paris.  The church of Ste-Marguerite was erected in 1625 in the Rue St-Bernard, Nos. 28 and 30, Faubourg St-Antoine,