E-auction 32-11420 - fjt_209310 - LOUIS XIII THE JUST Éducation à la vertu des enfants royaux 1612

De Bie, 1636 décrit ce jeton comme suit : “Le corps est de l’Oyseau communement surnommé de Paradis ou Cameleon de l’air, portant trois de ses petits sur son dos, & les eslevant à tire-d’aisles iusques dans la plus haute region de l’air, où elle semble les y retenir balancez, afin qu’ils soient fomentez des influences celestes : Ses pieds sont couverts de sa plume, ou ne paroissent point, pour ayder a l’erreur du vulgaire, que cet oyseau en est frustré par la Nature”. Selon lui, le thème de ce jeton se rapporte à : “Pour avoir son rapport au Temps, que la Regente continuant ses soins & la prevoyance augmentoit les doüaires que ses Pupiles avoient de naissance, en les faisant eslever à la Vertu par bonnes instructions”.
De Bie, 1636 describes this token as follows: “The body is that of the Bird commonly nicknamed of Paradise or Chameleon of the air, carrying three of its young on its back, and raising them with wings up to the highest region of the air, where it seems to keep them swinging, so that they are fomented by celestial influences: Its feet are covered with its feather, or do not appear, to aid the error of the common people, that this bird is frustrated by Nature”. According to him, the theme of this token relates to: “To have its connection with Time, that the Regent continuing her care and foresight increased the dowries that her Pupils had from birth, by having them raised to Virtue by good instructions”.