A fun little find on Gallica today in an 18th-century scrapbook of documents pertaining to the Grands and Premiers écuyers of France.
A copy of a tapestry made for Jacques de Genouillac, dit Galiot (1465-1546), who was Grand écuyer de France under François Ier. Around the edges there are references to his having been the Grand Maître de l'artillerie. As Galiot styled himself as a kind of Hercules due to his military prowess, in the middle you have baby Hercules fighting the serpents. Above that, you have his motto "J'aime fortune" which at once expresses his bravado, but can also cryptically be read as "J'aime fort une".
And of course, anyone who was anyone at that time had a Clouet of themselves, so here he is:












