Now that’s a 12-century carving…

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Not perhaps very practical – two humans each holding a bear by the tail and urging them on to fight, but certainly you can hardly miss the symbolism.

From St. Andoche, Saulieu, Burgundy. (Lots more carvings on that link.)

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Also boasts this rather severe St Bridgette de Suede with a book (and what I thought was a “don’t you dare ask me to wash the dishes” expression….)

And an early 16th-century Madonna said to have been donated by Madame de Sévigné

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