Je suis, dit Dieu, Maître des Trois Vertus by Line Vautrin

“I am, says God, Master of the Three Virtues”, gilded bronze box by Line Vautrin.
Gilded bronze box whose lid is decorated with an extract from the poem “The Mystery of the Holy Innocents” by Charles Péguy.
I am, says God, Master of the Three Virtues.
La Foi est une mère ardente. (Faith is a burning mother).
La Charité est une épouse fidèle. (Charity is a faithful wife.).
Mais l’Espérance est une toute petite fille. (But Hope is a very little girl).
Faith is represented by a praying figure, Charity by a kneeling figure and Hope by a little girl raising her hands to the sky.
Interior lined with cork.
The Mystery of the Holy Innocents is a prose poem written by the French writer, poet, and essayist Charles Péguy. Published in the April 1912 issue of Cahiers de la Quinzaine, it concludes the triptych of mysteries, which also includes The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc (1910) and The Porch of the Mystery of the Second Virtue (1911).
Like Péguy’s first two mysteries, The Mystery of the Holy Innocents takes up the principle of a dialogue between Madame Gervaise, a nun, and the young Joan of Arc.