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Utrum libet.
Whether it pleases.
L’olive, ensemble la Masse d’armes, (Devise de Paix,
ou de Guerre) se peut montrer aus ennemis, leur ofrant
le chois de l’un, ou de l’autre, ainsi que faisoient les An-
tiques par le Caducee, avec la Lance: mesmes les Rom-
[M]
meins aus Carthaginois, ou bien par deus Lances en- Link to an image of this page [h4r p119]semble, à savoir l’une à roquet, & l’autre à fer esmou-
lu. Comme fit le Duc Jan de Bourgogne, apres le meur-
[M]
tre du Duc d’Orleans, qui estant de retour de Flandres
à Amiens, avec une puissante armee, fit peindre deus
telles Lances susdites, au devant de son logis.[1]
1. During the period of dementia of King Charles VI, the two main rivals for power were his younger brother, Louis, Duke of Orléans, and his first cousin, Jean ‘Sans Peur’, Duke of Burgundy, culminating in the murder of the former in 1407.
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