Canoness cross from the chapter of Alix - Lot 35

Canoness cross from the chapter of Alix Chased gold and polychrome enamel medal, 4 double white enamel branches interspersed with fleur-de-lys, legends "Nobilis insignifiant voti" and "Auspice galliarum patrono", 24.17g, 5.7 x 4cm (phaleristics). Note: In 1755, the King, by letters patent of the month of January, granted permission to the lady canonesses of Alix, in the diocese of Lyon, to wear an eight-pointed gold cross, cantoned with four fleurs-de-lis, enameled white, edged in gold, a medal in the middle charged with a decapitated St. Denis, wearing a purple robe, a white surplice, a purple stole on a red background, with this legend "AUSPICE GALLIARUM PATRONO". On the reverse is a blue-enameled virgin holding the infant Jesus on a vert ground, surrounded by the legend "NOBILIS INSIGNIA VOTI".