France Ancient
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Under the raftered ceiling, and the nearest to it, there hung or leaned a collection of bannerettes and pennoncels, blazoned with the Ban charges—France Ancient, as they are now called—which would be needed on various occasions.
From Literature
Since then the Shield of Rheims has been: In chief France ancient, in base argent Two, laurel branches in Saltire vert.
From Project Gutenberg
As in France ancient history is put to the torture, though Scudéry, as we have seen, had set up as a rule that the truth of history was to be respected in romances; of observation of nature there is little or none, and the conversations of the characters are interminable.
From Project Gutenberg
Arms of France Ancient 122 248.
From Project Gutenberg
Seal of Margaret, second Queen of Edward I. On his accession in 1327, Edward III. placed a fleur de lys on each side of the Shield of England upon his Great Seal: and in 1340, when he claimed the crown of France, Edward quartered France Ancient with his lions of England: No. 252.
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