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St. Di'iiis in their quality of arouds (lawyers) of the abbey of that name, and 

 Counts of the Vexin. Louis VI. was the first to go and take the oriflamme, 

 which was no other than this banner, in the basilica of St. Denis, upon the 

 altar of the holy martyrs (which was called the montjoie), and his successors 

 continued to come and ask for it from the monks of the royal abbey whenever 

 they were about to start upon an expedition, " because," says Suger, " the 

 blessed St. Denis was the special patron and protector of the kingdom." 

 This same word was to be discovered in several other battle-cries, such as 

 Montjoie St. Andrii'iu- ! Montjoie Anjou ! and others. 



War-cries ceased to be used during battle when Charles VII., having 

 founded the ordinance companies, dispensed the bannerets from the duty of 



Fig. 261. Device of Catherine de' Medicis, Queen of France, during her Widowhood. 



leading their vassals to the fight. It was then that these cries were inscribed 

 upon the scroll placed above the crest, while underneath, upon another scroll, 

 appeared, in letters of gold or of silver, the patrimonial motto of the house. 

 There was, moreover, this difference between the battle-cry and the motto 

 that the latter was not always hereditary, for in some cases it changed at 

 each generation even in the same family. For instance, the ordinary motto 

 of the house of Sales, in Savoy, was originally, " Ni plus, ni moins," but 

 several members of this family adopted other mottoes. That of Francis de 

 Sales, Lord of Roisy, was, " En bonne foy ; " that of John de Sales, " Adieu, 

 biens mondains ! " that of Galois de Sales, "In paucis quies;" that of St. 

 Francis de Sales, " Numquam excedet," signifying, with the word Charita* 

 understood, Charity never dies out. 



