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As he looked on at their exploits, I wonder whether that room of gold and silk and worsted came back into his memory, with the device of little children in a river, and the sky full of birds? Lecoy de la Marche, ROI RENE, II. 155, 177. Champollion-Figeac, chaps. v. and vi. IBID. 364; Works, i. 172.
The author, M. Lecoy, Assistant Professor at the Veterinary School of Lyons, France, says: "There are few districts in the arrondissement of Avesnes where more cattle are fattened than in that of Soire-le-Chateau.
This theory is quite plausible, as cloisonné was made by the Byzantine goldsmiths. M. Lecoy de la Marche tells us that the first recorded name of an illuminator is that of a woman Lala de Cizique, a Greek, who painted on ivory and on parchment in Rome during the first Christian century.
D'Hericault's admirable MEMOIR, prefixed to his edition of Charles's works, vol. i. p. xi. Vallet de Viriville, CHARLES VII. ET SON EPOQUE, ii. 428, note 2. See Lecoy de la Marche, LE ROI RENE, i. 167. Vallet, CHARLES VII, ii. 85, 86, note 2. Champollion-Figeac, 193-198. Champollion-Figeac, 209.
Vallet's "Charles VII.," iii. chap. i. But see the chronicle that bears Jaquet's name; a lean and dreary book. Monstrelet. D'Héricault's "Memoir," xl. xli.; Vallet, "Charles VII.," ii. 435. Champollion-Figeac, p. 368. Works, i. 115. D'Héricault's "Memoir," xlv. Champollion-Figeac, pp. 361, 381. Ibid., pp. 359, 361. Lecoy de la Marche, "Roi René," ii. 155, 177.
"Again, it must be clearly stated that the pointed equilateral arch, which some persons still suppose to be the distinctive characteristic of an era in architecture, is not so in fact, as Quicherat has very clearly demonstrated, and, since him, Lecoy de la Marche. The study of archives has, on this point, completely overset the hobbies of architects, and demolished the twaddle of the Bonzes.
If we do we shall be strangely pleased, for there is a genuine pathos in these simple words, and the lines go with a lilt, and sing themselves to music of their own. D'Héricault's admirable "Memoir," prefixed to his edition of Charles's works, vol. i. p. xi. Vallet de Viriville, "Charles VII. et son Époque," ii. 428, note 2. See Lecoy de la Marche, "Le Roi René," i. 167.
"France: so Lecoy de la Marche emphatically asserts.
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