[81] Elle donna à la reyne Louise de Lorraine une fois pour ses estreines ung esventail faict de nacre de perles, enrichy de pierreries et grosses perles, si beau et si riche, qu’on disoit estre un chef d’œuvre, et l’estimoit on à plus de quinze cens escus.—Pierre de Bourdeilles, Seigneur de Brantôme, _Mémoires des dames illustrées de France._ [82] Sir John Cullam, Bart., _History of Hawsted_. [83] Dr. Birdwood, _Report on Old Records in the India Office_, 1898. [84] Sir John Francis Davis, F.R.S., _The Chinese_. [85] _Fans of the Ancients_, p. 27. [86] A. C. Fox-Davies, _Complete Guide to Heraldry_. [87] _Ibid._ [88] _Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae, atque Americae Gentium habitus._ Antwerp, 1581. [89] It is extremely improbable that this fan leaf had ever any connection with the story given above. It probably belongs to the latter years of the seventeenth, or the early years of the eighteenth century. [90] M. Édouard Petit has written an exhaustive monograph on the manufacture of fans, _Études, souvenirs et considérations sur la fabrication de l’éventail_. Versailles, 1859. [91] _Art and Ornament in Dress._ [92] Fans of scented wood had, earlier, been introduced into the French Court by Anne of Austria. [93] S. Redgrave, _South Kensington Catalogue of Fan Exhibition_, 1870. [94] One of the most potent earlier influences on Spanish painting was that of Titian, who, although probably never in Spain, painted a number of pictures for the Escurial. [95] ‘They all love the feasts of bulls, and strive to appear gloriously fine when they see them.’—_Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe._ [96] Procès Verbaux, April 26, 1762, Jan. 1765. Lady Dilke, _French Painters of the Eighteenth Century_, p. 12. [97] Walter Thornbury, _Legendary Ballads and Songs_. [98] Qui estoit un montagne de chaux vive sur laquelle les gouttes d’eau du ciel tumboient à foison et disoient les mots tels en latin: ‘Ardorem extincta testantur vivere flamma.’ [99] Des éventails et pennaches rompus des carquans brisés et ses pierreries et perles espandues par terre les chaisnes toutes en pieces! [100] Deux Dialogues du nouveau Langage François, 1578. [101] Il étoit d’un vélin aussi délicatement découpé qu’il étoit possible avec la dentelle à l’entour de pareille étoffe. [102] There are instances in which this order is reversed, the leaf having been preserved and mounted on more modern sticks. [103] Ribbons constantly appear on the fans depicted in Bosse’s engravings, either at the side, half-way up the panache, or at the rivet. [104] The well-known story of the portrait of Christina, painted by Michael Dahl, may be given. One day, while the Queen was sitting to him, she asked him what he intended to put in her hand. ‘A fan, please your Majesty.’ ‘A fan!’ exclaimed Christina, starting up with a tremendous oath. ‘A fan!—A lion, man, is fitter for the Queen of Sweden.’