Opposite the first Cafe de Paris, Boulevard des Italiens, 1845. Two bearded dandies in redingotes and top hats watch a woman in long riding dress side-saddle on a horse. The cafe was one of several popular restaurants on the boulevard. Handcoloured lithograph by after an illustration by Francois Courboin from Octave Uzanne’s Fashion in Paris, William Heinemann, London, 1898.

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