So... when I was quite young my dad began to get into genealogy. Through his research he learned that we are descended from Comte something-or-other V---- D'Argenson, keeper of seals for Louis XIV. Being a girl of 8 or 9 at the time I was notified of our illustrious family connections (all, of course, before we were exiled to Canada for evasion of the salt tax), I was quite impressed to learn that an ancestor was in charge of the seals in the King's zoo.
Although now in my dotage and long disabused of my first image of "keeper of seals," when we visited Versailles I did get a chuckle out of imagining where it was that the seal exhibit was housed.
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