Here are the pics I took during my last visit to the musee de paris. I used to go there often when I lived in France...and loved it then. But with further education in these subjects I now rediscover it all and I can't help to wonder at the treasures you can find there...the amount of things to look at is simply overwhelming.
Enjoy!
J
Sword, French, around 1350 (One of a my favourite type XIV, alongside the one in the MET)
Presumably of royal origins but without solid proof to back it up.
Found in a tomb in southern france during the 19th century
Broad blade with deep fuller, bearing the following inscription:
"nulla de virtutibus tuis major clementia est" (mercy is the best of your virtues)
There is a hole in the pommel, and crystal disks closing the gap, thought to have contained relics
The grip was bound with wire.
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Another beautifull type XIV (with a very unusual hilt for its type), a falchion.
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Sword and scabbard of a french "Connétable"
Late XV century
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A couple of cinquedea and scabbards, a hunting knife
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A handfull of rondels and ballock daggers
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sword (below) used for Don Martin's coronation in 1399 (king of Aragon and Sicily), in Saragosse
Spain, 1290
Martin the first sent for this sword, thought to have belonged to the Emperor constantin
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Sword (below) made for francois 1er
Hilt : French (1510-1515)
Blade: Italien, around 1480
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