What was most admired were two long lamp-stands covered with lanterns, that flanked a platform on which the authorities were to sit. Besides this there were against the four columns of the town hall four kinds of poles, each bearing a small standard of greenish cloth, embellished with inscriptions in gold letters.
Ce que l’on admirait surtout, c’étaient deux longs ifs couverts de lampions qui flanquaient une estrade où s’allaient tenir les autorités; et il y avait de plus, contre les quatre colonnes de la mairie, quatre manières de gaules, portant chacune un petit étendard de toile verdâtre, enrichi d’inscriptions en lettres d’or.