148 BAYARD’S ARMOUR. 
from the present Duke and from the curators of Paris collections 
of armour. The replies from France were to the effect that no 
collection of arms and armour was known to have been at St. Germain’s, 
and the secretary of the Duke of Wellington could find no record of 
arms and armour being brought from France. These replies may 
certainly show that there exists no record to turn to for information, 
but the fact remains that in the Rotunda is a remarkable collection of 
French arms, dating from the beginning of the 16th to the end of the 
18th century, including an ugly nondescript kind of pole-axe inscribed 
“ Tan 4 de la Inberté et le 17 de L’egalitée le 10 Aout, 1792.” 
Fie. 1,—Bayard by Alph de Neuville from Guizot’s History of France, Vol. II. 
In the published Wellington Despatches, the occupation of St. 
Germain’s, by British troops, is mentioned as at all events contem- 
plated. Probably individuals may have visited the place and obtained 
the arms and armour which, though valuable, do not constitute so 
