[111] Exhibited at the Exhibition of Documents relating to the Revolution, held at the Tuileries in 1889.
[112] The twelve Virtues, according to Hermas, are Faith, Temperance, Patience, Magnanimity, Simplicity, Innocence, Peace, Charity, Discipline, Chastity, Truth, and Prudence. The counting of twelve Virtues lasted a long time, for we find in 1454 at a fête given at Lille by the Duc de Bourgogne, Philippe le Bon, that twelve Virtues dressed in crimson satin danced at the ball with the many knights who were present. They were the great ladies of the town; and perhaps the knights personated the Vices, as they were not improbably able to do with a considerable amount of truth.
[113] Annales archéologiques.
[114] For a detailed account of the cathedral see Viollet-le-Duc's Dictionnaire raisonné d'Architecture.
[115] This passed through miraculous adventures at the Revolution and was restored to the cathedral by M. de Quélen.
[116] Its preservation is said to have been in this wise. Louis XVI. sent it to S. Denis to be in safe keeping, and in 1793 it was offered by the Convention to the municipality. Thence it passed into the hands of M. Bonvoisin in 1804, and in 1808 it was placed in its present crystal reliquary by Cardinal de Belloy.
[117] Jean de Montaigu, beheaded in 1409, was a councillor, grand master of the palace, and brother of Gérard, 95th bishop of Paris.
[118] Dibden.
[119] Carlyle.
[120] Dibden.