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A treatise on heraldry, British and foreign : with English and French glossaries (1896)

Woodward, John, 1837-1898 · Edinburgh ; London : W. & A.K. Johnston · leaf 441

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, Frank-furt am Mayn, 1851.) In France the germ of thearmorial fleur-de-lis may thus be traced to the fleurons ( 346 ) which adorn the sceptres and the crowns of Henri I.,Philippe I., and Louis VI. A signet of Louis VII.bears a fleur-de-lis florencee, but the charge first takes adefinite heraldic… … Fio. 70.—From the Seal of St. Louis. represented), in his left a sceptre surmounted by alozenge charged with the like emblem. On his counter-seal is engraved in an oval a fleur-de-lis entirely of theheraldic shape. (M. Demay points out, pp. 194-196, theanalogy which exists between the fleurons,…

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