FRENCH MUSEUMS. 



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the stalks or bodies than those now in use, and have the 

 high, flat head which for a long 

 time would serve the purpose of 

 a calkin (fig. 22). 



The museum of Nantes con- 

 tains nine shoes with wavy bord- 

 ers. Two of these were found 

 in the nv^er Erdre, near Nantes, 

 in 1827, during the construction 



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fig. 22 



of the Orleans bridge ; the others 



have been extracted from the bed of the Vilaine, in the 



neighbourhood of Rennes, and from a tumulus near 



Pousanges. 



The mAiseum of Troyes, near Paris, possesses three 

 shoes, two with undulated edges and six nail-holes. The 

 third shoe is evidently more modern, and is very peculiar 

 and fanciful in shape ; being a modification, or rather 

 exaggeration, of our ' bar-shoe.' These shoes were found 

 in cutting the canal, and were 

 described by M. Thiollet at the 

 French Archaeological Congress 

 assembled at Troyes in 1853 



In the museum of Cluny, 

 near Lyons, there is, says M. 

 Megnin,' an undulated, very 

 light, and very elegant shoe, 

 which was found at Vassimont, 



' Megnin, Op. cit. p. 26. To this veterinary surgeon's able but 

 brief treatise, I am indebted for much of the foregoing description of 

 the contents of several French museums. 



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