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of the person. Thus the kings had the helmet or, full-face, the visor com- 

 pletely open and without bars, to signify that a sovereign ought to know and 



Fig. 253. The Lords and Barons "make windows of their blazons ;" that is to say, exhibit their 

 nobility by displaying their Banners and Coats-of-arms fiom the windows of the Heralds' 

 Lodge. After a Miniature in the "Tournois du Roy Rene." Manuscript of the Fifteenth 

 Century. In the National Library, Paris. 



to see everything. The helmet of counts and viscounts was argent three-parts 



