Coronation of the French monarch the Holy Ampulla, from the Abbey to the very steps of the high altar of the Cathedral, where he turned the relic over to the Archbishop of Rheims for its use in the coronation ritual. All succeeding Kings of France were anointed with this same oil—mixed with chrism prior to their coronation. French queens were crowned either together with their husband at Rheims or alone at Sainte-Chapelle or Abbey of St. Denis. The king is crowned by the Archbishop of Reims who is assisted by four suffragan bishops of his ecclesiastical province, and of the Bishop of Langres and Chapter
Black-crowned tchagra Black-crowned tchagra The black-crowned tchagra ("Tchagra senegalus") is a bushshrike. This family of passerine birds is closely related to the true shrikes in the family Laniidae, and was once included in that group. This species is found in the Arabian peninsula and most of Africa in scrub, open woodland, semi-desert and cultivation. In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the black-crowned tchagra in his "Ornithologie" based on a specimen collected in Senegal. He used the French name "La pie-griesche gris du Sénégal" and the Latin "Lanius Senegalensis cinereus". Although Brisson coined Latin names, these do