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With an almost incredible industry, rendering it flexible and tractable,
and gave it all the forms and scrolls he wished, with a 'douceur et une
gentillesse' which surprised and astonished all the smiths." The iron
master Gaegart broke off fragments of the iron, and no member of the
craft has ever been able to state with certainty just how the work was
accomplished. Some think that it is cast, and then treated with the
file; others say that it must have been executed by casting entire, with
no soldering. In any case, the secret will never be divulged, for no one
was in the confidence of Biscornette. Norman blacksmiths and workers in
wrought iron were more plentiful than goldsmiths. They had, in those
warlike times, more call for arms and the massive products of the forge
than for gaudy jewels and table appointments. One of the doors of St.
Alban's Abbey displays the skill of Norman smiths dealing with this
stalwart form of ornament. Among special artists in iron whose names
have survived is that of Jehan Tonquin, in 1388. Earlier than that, a
cutler, Thomas de Fieuvillier, is mentioned, as having flourished about
1330. [Illustration: BISCORNETTE'S DOORS AT PARIS] Elaborate iron work
is rare in Germany; the Germans always excelled rather in bronze than in
the sterner metal. At St. Ursula's in Cologne there are iron floriated
hinges, but the design and idea are French, and not native. One may
usually recognize a difference between French and English wrought iron,
for the French is often in detached pieces, not an outgrowth of the
actual hinge itself, and when this is found in England, it indicates
French work. Ornaments in iron were sometimes cut out of flat sheet
metal, and the