After them came the drums, fifes, hautboys, and trumpets, together with nine heralds, behind whom walked the Grand Provost of the palace, the Knights of the Holy Ghost, and finally, the Children of France with their respective retinues.

The first group consisted of the train of the younger Princess, in which the Baron de la Chatre[342] bore the vase, M.
de Montigny[343] the basin, the Comte de la Rochepot the cushion, M.de Chemerault the taper, M.de Liancourt[344] the christening-cap, and the Marechal de Fervaques[345] the salt-cellar.

The Marquis de Bois-Dauphin[346] carried the infant in his arms, and Madame de Chemerault bore her train.

She was followed by a suite of twelve nobles, each bearing a flambeau in his hand; and after these came the Due de Lorraine as godfather, with Don Juan de Medicis, son of the Grand Duke Ferdinand of Tuscany, as proxy for the Grand Duchess of Florence, the other sponsor, the ladies who had assisted at the Princess's levee closing the train.
This party had no sooner taken possession of the place assigned to them than the second group began to enter the enclosure.

First came the Marechal de Lavardin[347] with the ewer, then the Duc de Sully with the cushion, next the Duc de Montbazon[348] with the taper, then the Duc d'Epernon with the christening-cap, and finally, the Duc d'Aiguillon with the salt-cellar.