The history of the French nobility was embodied in these two men, born in blood, who had died in blood.
Large gilded frames of Gothic style surrounded all these portraits.

At the right, on the bottom of each picture was painted a little escutcheon having for its crest a baronial coronet and for supports two wild men armed with clubs.

The field was red; with its three bulls' heads in silver, it announced to people well versed in heraldic art that they had before them the lineaments of noble and powerful lords, squires of Reisnach-Bergenheim, lords of Reisnach in Suabia, barons of the Holy Empire, lords of Sapois, Labresse, Gerbamont, etc., counts of Bergenheim, the latter title granted them by Louis XV, chevaliers of Lorraine, etc., etc., etc.
This ostentatious enumeration was not needed in order to recognize the kindred of all these noble personages.

Had they been mingled with other portraits, a careful observer would have promptly distinguished and reunited them, so pronounced were the family features common to them all.

The furniture of the room was not unworthy of these proud defunct ones.