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profile, the visor drawn down, and having nine bars or. That of a baron had 

 only seven bars to the visor. That of the gentry untitled was of polished 

 steel, placed in profile, with five bars argent. "When the King conferred or 

 sold a title, he invented as the crest of the blazon, for the person ennobled, 



Fig. 254. The Duo de Bourbon, armed cap-a-pie for the Tournament. After a Miniature in the 

 " Tournois du Hoy Rene." Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century. In the National Library, 

 Paris. 



:in iron helmet in profile, with the rantaille and nose piece half open. The 

 helmets further had pieces of cloth called laHibmjiiin*, which the wearers 

 attached to the crests of their helmets, the size of which gradually attained 

 enormous proportions. Tlx-se cn-sts themselves became an essential ornameiit, 



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