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Jim,

You wrote:
> 
> Thanks for this, but which Fiacre is this?  The only one I know of is Fiacre of Meaux, 
> indeed a gardener saint, but who was an Irish hermit who died in 670, almost a 
> millennium before the time of Louix XIV.

Sorry, I should have noted this monk was a later Parisian namesake for 
Fiacre of Meaux. This infant encounter was in 1637, but I was thinking 
the common name might have connected their emblems in the art. The story 
itself was from Antonia Fraser's Love and Louis XIV.

Mea culpa.

Chuck

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