[98] Qui estoit un montagne de chaux vive sur laquelle les gouttes d’eau du ciel tumboient à foison et disoient les mots tels en latin:
‘Ardorem extincta testantur vivere flamma.’
[99] Des éventails et pennaches rompus des carquans brisés et ses pierreries et perles espandues par terre les chaisnes toutes en pieces!
[100] Deux Dialogues du nouveau Langage François, 1578.
[101] Il étoit d’un vélin aussi délicatement découpé qu’il étoit possible avec la dentelle à l’entour de pareille étoffe.
[102] There are instances in which this order is reversed, the leaf having been preserved and mounted on more modern sticks.
[103] Ribbons constantly appear on the fans depicted in Bosse’s engravings, either at the side, half-way up the panache, or at the rivet.
[104] The well-known story of the portrait of Christina, painted by Michael Dahl, may be given. One day, while the Queen was sitting to him, she asked him what he intended to put in her hand. ‘A fan, please your Majesty.’ ‘A fan!’ exclaimed Christina, starting up with a tremendous oath. ‘A fan!—A lion, man, is fitter for the Queen of Sweden.’
The Order of the Fan was instituted later by Louisa Ulrica, in 1744, for the ladies of the Swedish court, in which the sterner sex was afterwards included.
[105] Letter 491, 8 Mai 1676.