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HERALDIC SCIENCE. 



the brothers of Joan of Arc, gave them not only the new name of Du Lys, 

 which they assumed after their sister, but also an azure escutcheon, charged 

 with a pointed sword, with two fleurs-de-lis or, dexter and sinister (Fig. 251). 

 After having made use of the principal emblems furnished by nature in 

 the composition of armorial bearings, heraldic science borrowed from the 

 work of human hands, or from the fanciful conceptions of the human mind. 

 Thus certain families took for their escutcheon instruments of music, such as 

 harps, guitars, or hunting-horns, and the ordinary utensils of domestic life, 

 such as pots, drinking- glasses, knives, mill-stones, candlesticks, &c. Other 



Fig. 251. Family of Joan of Arc, alias Du Lye. A Sword argent in pale, the point suppoiting a 

 Crown or, and being flanked with two Fleurs-de-lis, with the Motto, "Consilio 6rmatei Dei." 

 This Coat-of-arms was composed by Charles VII. himself, in 1429. 



families, having more ambitious ideas, placed in their arms imaginary 

 animals, such as the phrenix, the unicorn, harpies, and so forth. 



It is worthy of remark that many arms were emblematic ; that is to say, 

 people charged them with certain common objects which happened to present 

 an analogy with their family name (Fig. 252). For instance, the Bouesseaux 

 had three bushels (boisseaux) azure; the Chabots, three chabots (a river- 

 fish) ; the Maillys, three mailkts (malets) sinople ; the Du Palmiers, three 

 palms or ; the Eethels, three rateaux (ratres) or ; the Crequys, a crequier 

 (cherry-tree) gules ; the Begassoux, three heads of the btcasse (woodcock) or ; 

 the Auchats, a chat (cat) startled, argent ; the Herices, three herissons (hedge- 



