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From the Veyrier cave, near Mount Saleve, were taken nearly 1,000 stone implements; from those of Petit Morin, 2,000 arrow-heads; from that of Cottes, on the banks of the Gartampe, more than 264 pounds' weight of flints, some of the Mousterien and others of the Madeleine type, mixed with the bones of the rhinoceros, and of several large beasts of prey of indeterminate. species.
People of the highest rank wore cottes crepes, that is, a sort of crape petticoat, which fell from the waist to the feet. This was meant to represent the ancient coat of arms. Servants in mourning, or pages for princes, supported the train of the cloak or gown of persons above the common rank.
You may see in certain Flemish pictures the wives of burgomasters cut out by nature on the same pattern and wonderfully reproduced on canvas; but these dames wear fine robes of velvet and precious stuffs, whereas Madame Saillard possessed no robes, only that venerable garment called in Touraine and Picardy "cottes," elsewhere petticoats, or skirts pleated behind and on each side, with other skirts hanging over them.
Now, with the De Cottes as directors at the Gobelins, and with a new reign begun, more pictures were called for. The splendid History of the King of Louis XIV could not be forgotten; the history of his successor must be similarly represented, and what could this be but a series of woven paintings. The flower of the time was an exquisitely complicated decoration on a small scale.
Among many details denoting the tender forethought of the administrator, we may note that in the ward for the grievously sick and infirm the beds were made lower, and 60 cottes of white fur and 300 felt boots were provided to keep the poor patients warm when they were moved from their beds to the chambres aisées.
Tribes, formed at first of members of the same family, must have existed from the very dawn of humanity. In the Cottes Cave were found some reindeer and aurochs' shanks, which may naturally be supposed to have served the same purpose. The curious objects preserved in the Christy collections must also have been used in war or in the chase.
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