A very large number of the collections of miniatures have fortunately been spared to us, and they have come down to us in almost perfect condition. The most important may be enumerated as follows: the _Statutes of the Order of St. Michael_; the _Boccaccio_ at Munich; the _Book of Hours_ painted for Etienne Chevalier; the _Chronique de France_ in the Bibliothèque Nationale; some _MSS._ now in the possession of Mr. Yates Thomson; and, finest of all, the _Antiquitates Judæorum_ of Josephus. In the _Statutes of the Order of St. Michael_ (_MS._ 19819 Bibl. Nat.) Louis XI, as Founder of the Order, is portrayed surrounded by his thirty-six Knights. A similar miniature, but of somewhat greater dimensions, forms the frontispiece of the _Boccaccio_, which was executed for the Controleur Laurens Gyrart and is now in the Public Library at Munich. Count Paul Durrieu believes--and not without reason--that all the miniatures in this Codex are by Fouquet himself. On the frontispiece, a leaf not more than 20 inches square, Charles VII is depicted surrounded by about 150 dignitaries--judges, magistrates, etc.--passing judgment on Duc Jean d'Alençon. The scene is laid at the Castle of St. George in Vendôme, and amongst those present is Etienne Chevalier and the artist himself.[55] Most realistically conceived are the crowd of onlookers, some of whom, pushing forward, are being vigorously repressed by the guards. The _Chronique de France_ (_MS. Français_ 6465 Bibl. Nat.), in which fifty-five illustrations record events in the _Life of Philippe Augustus_, one of them showing the _Coronation of Charlemagne_ in the old Basilica of St. Peter at Rome, is another work by Fouquet which is full of points of interest. His illustrations to the French translation of the _Antiquitates Judæorum_ of Josephus--now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris--are usually reckoned as his _chef d'oeuvre_. The Duc de Berry had, in the first instance, commissioned André Beauneveu to execute this MS., but presently it came, by way of inheritance, into the hands of Jacques d'Armagnac, Duc de Nemours, who engaged Fouquet to complete the unfinished work. A note in the first volume of this MS. by François Robertet, secretary to Pierre de Beaujeu, Duc de Bourbon, records that the first three miniatures in that volume were by the Duc de Berry's artists, and the rest by Louis XI's "good painter and illuminator--Jean Fouquet of Tours." It is by this note that we are enabled to identify Fouquet's work. Subsequently the Codex became the property of Catherine, daughter of the murdered Duc de Nemours, who on her marriage to the Duc de Bourbon brought the treasure to the Court of Moulins. When, a century later, the last Duc de Bourbon, the famous Constable, was killed at the Sack of Rome, since he had no heirs and was an exile and fugitive from France, all his property, including this Codex, was confiscated and passed to the Crown. In course of time the second volume became