He succeeded in effecting the union of the Nestorians of Chaldea with the Church of Rome, and in appeasing for a time several controversial differences between members of his own communion.

Paul V greatly embellished the city of Rome; and also completed the facade of St.Peter's, and the palace of the Quirinal.

He died in 1621, at the age of sixty-nine years.
[301] Mezeray, vol.x.p.

280.
[302] _Amours du Grand Alcandre_, p.

47.
[303] Anne d'Anglure, Seigneur de Giury, who subsequently married Marguerite Hurault, daughter of Philippe Hurault, Comte de Chiverny, Chancellor of France under Henri III and Henri IV.
[304] Eleonore de Bourbon was the daughter of Henri I.de Bourbon, Prince de Conde, who succeeded his father in the command of the Calvinist party, conjointly with the King of Navarre, afterwards Henri IV.