The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 207
miths of Paris. But in the provinces, in towns where the mastersof a trade were insufficient to constitute a community or fraternity havingits chiefs and its own administration, it was indispensable to reunite underthe same banner the trades between which there was the most agreement,or rather the… … Fig. 117.—Arms of the Corporation of Goldsmiths of Paris, with this device :Vases Sacres et Couronnes, voila notre CEuvre. pewterers, the mercers, the braziers, and even the grocers; and thus it cameto pass that they combined on their banners of fleurs-de-lis the proper armsof each of these several…
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