The knight Cuer d'Amour arrives at the land of Compagnie, 15th century. He wears a winged helmet adorned with flowers, red tunic and plate armour. He dines with ferry women in hennin hats. Compagnie et Amitie. France, XVe siecle. From Rene d'Anjou's Roman de tres-douce Mercy au Cuer d'amour epris, 1457, Bibliotheque Imperiale, Fonds de la Valliere MS 36. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after an illustration by Claudius Joseph Ciappori from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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