Meanwhile, a wavy-sided star, known as an
estoile azure, was representative of Bebington and two crescents were used to denote the Laird family, which worked tirelessly to improve living conditions and employment in the area.
Many critics had observed very early on what Benoit de L' Estoile remarked upon in 2003: "In this day and age a museum devoted to non-Western arts and civilizations needs to be a post-colonial museum" (174).
Additionally, this would have provided the occasion to factor in what has become known as the "North American critique" of the MQB (James Clifford, Herman Lebovics, Susan Vogel, among others), but also French texts such as Benoit de L' Estoile's Le Gout des autres: de I' exposition coloniale aux arts premiers (2007) and the multiple and varied contributions to the special edition of the journal Le Debat entitled "Le moment du Quai Branly" (November-December 2007).
Such is the case for the "fleuve Strymon" (fable 11), known previously as the "Palestin"; and again for the "fleuve Phasis" (fable 5), formally called the "Arct ure," a name infinitely more suitable, or rather natural, by virtue of the river's geographical position in "the most northerly elevation" (la plus Septentrionale elevation; P:266), under "the Arctic star" (
estoile Polaire), "which is between the legs of Bootes, the northern constellation" (F:265, my emphasis).
Unlike Geoffroy, whose record of disobedience to the Decalogue by the time he disappears from the sources had almost achieved a perfect ten, Francois Ravaillac was scrupulous in his observance of the commandments, not only the fifth, but the ninth - "Thou shalt not bear false witness." Early in his interrogation, according to
Estoile, the judges, unable to shake him in his assertion that he had done the murder by himself, and hoping to coerce him into naming his accomplices, threatened to bring his mother and father to Paris and execute them in front of him, and if necessary burn all his accursed family, unless he told them who had helped him.
Richmond Herald Dr Clive Cheesman explains: "The wheel is a fairly obvious engineering reference, and the profusion of light and fire (the suns on the shield, the rays of the crowns round the supporters' necks and indeed the '
estoiles' or stars on their bodies, and the sparks emerging from the body of the male griffin above the helmet) is a reference to energy and enlightenment at the same time.