e, and carried the
relic in procession barefooted to the church. Before the battle of Auray,
he ordered his men to march "in the name of God and St. Yves."

St. Ives, or Yves Helory, was one of the most remarkable characters of the
thirteenth century. He studied law in the schools of Paris, and applied
his talents in defending the cause of the poor; hence he was called "the
poor man's advocate;" and so great to this day is the confidence placed in
his justice, that, in the department of the Cotes-du-Nord, when a debtor
falsely denies his debt, a peasant will pay twenty sous for a mass to St.
Yves, convinced that St. Yves will cause the faithless creditor to die
within the year. His truthfulness was such, he was called St. Yves de
Verite. He is the special patron of lawyers, and always represented in the
"mortier," or lawyer's cap, with an ermine-trimmed scarlet robe.

"Saint Yves etait Breton,
Avocat et pas larron,
Chose rare, se dit-on."

Lawyers, says a writer, take him for a patron, but not for a model. Philip
le Hardi, in acknowledgment of his worth, granted him a pension of six
deniers a day--in those times a considerable sum.

Over this house is a marble tablet with this inscription:--

"Ici est ne le 17 Oct^r 1253, et est mort le 19 Mai 1303,

SAINT YVES,

Officiel de Treguier, cure de Tredretz et de Lohannec. Sa maison, qui a
subsiste jusqu'en l'annee 1834, ayant ete alors demolie a cause de
vetuste, Mg^r Hyacinthe Louis de Quelen, Arch^vque de Paris, et
proprietaire des domaines de Kermartin, a fait placer cette inscription,
afin qu'un lieu sanctifie par la presence d'un si grand serviteur de
Dieu ne demeurat pas inconnu (1837)."

The house is a good specimen of a Breton dwelling; by the side of the
fire, in the one room of which most of these cottages consist, fixed
against the wall like the berth of a ship, stands the bedstead or "lit
clos" of old oak, shut in by carved and well-waxed sliding panels, often
inscribed with the sacred monogram. The two mattresses, paillasse, and
"cossette de plume," are piled up to such a height as barely to admit of
its tenants creeping into the bed. In front is the customary chest,
containing the family wardrobe, answering the double purpose of a seat and
the means of ascending into the bed. Often we have seen cupboards on each
side of the large chimney with two shelves, which served as beds for the