Fruit-seller Louise Reine Audu in tricolor bonnet and full skirts with bouquet. She lead 800 market women to march on Versailles to demand bread, October 1789. La dame de la halle. Handcoloured steel engraving by Leopold Massard after an illustration by Henri Baron from Augustin Challamel and Wilhelm Tenint’s Les Francais sous la Revolution, The French under the Revolution, Challamel, Paris, 1843.

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