Fauna

We encounter animals on practically every page of Les Très Riches Heures. Humble or noble, some are tame or farm animals (such as the greyhound and pups at the Duke’s banquet or the herds and flocks of the rural scenes, not to mention the horses of the progresses and hunt scenes). Others are wild, exotic or fantastic beasts – boars, lions, bears, cheetahs and a dragon (above Mont Saint-Michel in the scene representing the Feast of the Archangel).

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