Knight of the Order of Our Lady of the Thistle, chevalier de l'Ordre de Notre-Dame du Chardon, created in 1370 by Louis II duc de Bourbon. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a figure in Hippolyte Helyot's Histoire des ordres from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852.

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