The song of Jacques Lelyeur. The poet dreams by a river as the Virgin flees in a boat from the Devil. Jacques le Lieur was a mediocre French poet and alderman, Le Songe de Maistre Jacques. France, XVIe siecle. From a miniature in MS 6989, Bibliotheque Imperiale. Chromolithograph by Giare after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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