Hincmar, _Vita sancti Remigii_ in the _Patrologie de Migne_, vol.cxxv, pp.

1130 _et seq._ H.Jadart, _Bibliographie des ouvrages concernant la vie et le culte de saint Remi, eveque de Reims_, 1891, in 8vo.] Ever since then the kings of France have been anointed with the divine oil which the dove brought down from heaven.

The holy ampulla containing it is kept in the church of Saint Remi at Reims.

And by God's grace on the day of the King's anointing this ampulla is always found full.[311] [Footnote 311: Froissart, Bk.

II, ch.lxxiv.Le doyen de Saint-Thibaud, p.328.Vertot, _Dissertation au sujet de la sainte ampoule conservee a Reims_, in _Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres_, 1736, vol.ii, pp.