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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catherine de Medici by Honore de Balzac: Nigel."
The sign, which represented an ermine, hung outside, as we still see
in some village hostelries, from a rich bracket of gilded iron
filagree. Above the ermine, on one side of the sign, were the words:--
LECAMVS
FURRIER
TO MADAME LA ROYNE ET DU ROY NOSTRE SIRE.
On the other side of the sign were the words:--
TO MADAME LA ROYNE-MERE
AND MESSIEURS DV PARLEMENT.
The words "Madame la Royne-mere" had been lately added. The gilding
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