Everything we see is summed up in this. Saint-Jean and Bonnard have preserved for us types of French gentlemen bearing the Muff under Louis XIV. One, in court dress, carries with much grace a small spotted Muff, which he holds in one hand, showing a glimpse at the unoccupied end of the cuff of a fur glove; another, in winter court-dress, holds with the languor of a /petit-maître/ a pretty plump otter Muff falling to the hips, giving a gracious curve to the arm; in the middle of this Muff a vast bow of ribbons or /Galants/, something like the old trimming called /petite oie/, is displayed with an excellent effect. In 1680, nothing, according to the /Mercure Galant/, was to be seen but ribbons purfled with gold, laced, fringed, wreathed, purled, or embroidered, which were gathered in a bow in front, of the Muff. La Fontaine alludes doubtless to the country Muff spoken of by Furetière when, in the fable of the /Monkey and the Leopard/, he makes the latter say:-- The king desires me at his Court, And must have--if I die for't-- A /Muff/, made of my skin, so full of blots Of colour, and of lines, and dots, And dappled stains, and chequered spots. As to the Muff-dog--to finish the registration of the definition of Furetière--not only has Hollar left us an engraving of it, and presented it to us under the form of a small Spaniel, but Father du Cerceau makes his /upholsterer poet/ say--Even the lady's lapdog barked at me, that ingrate Cadet, for whom I used to stuff So many sweets inside my Muff. The chief hall of the peltry merchants and furriers of the 17th century, in Paris, was in the Rue de la Tabletterie or Rue des Fourreurs, which led into the cross-way of the Place aux Chats. The shops of the retail peltry merchants were nearly all situated in the City, Rue Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie, and Rue de la Juiverie. "In these places," says Léger, "are to be found very beautiful Muffs for men and for women, and very fashionable ones . . . there are to be sold also very beautiful amices of miniver." He adds a word about the Palatines properly got up, composed of skins of animals, foreign and native. The /Livre commode des adresses de Paris/ contains some designations of peltry merchants and furriers towards the end of the seventeenth century. Fashion altered the shape of the Muff considerably under Louis XIV. From the rare documents which we have been able to catalogue, we have easily found numerous modifications in both form and volume. Sometimes narrow and long, sometimes broad and short, it would be impossible to assign to this little chattel an exact type for all that epoch. The Muff triumphed already, under Louis XIII., in the empire of oglings and at the Place Royale, as it reigned later at Versailles, and showed itself in sedan chairs in the midst of the alleys of the park at the visiting hour, lending always to woman a charming countenance and exquisite graces.