Qui se nomme la Trinité.”
Hie Zum Kindli
Other pilgrim taverns styled themselves “A l’image du Christ.” We also meet with such inscriptions as “L’Humanité de Jesus Christ, notre sauveur divin”; the birth of Christ as a child, as in the charming old Swiss sign “Hie zum Christkindli”; the Madonna and scenes of her life like the “Annunciation,” called Salutation in England. These and many other signs, such as “Purgatory,” “Hell,” and “Paradise,” which have been revived in modern Paris on fantastic cabarets, meet our eyes on tavern signs. An old enumeration of London bars of the seventeenth century begins with the words:—
“There has been great sale and utterance of wine
Besides beer and ale, and ipocras fine
In every country region and nation
Chefely at Billingsgate, at the Salutation....”
And when the author tires of mentioning them all by name, he concludes with:—
“And many like places that make noses red.”