Fashionable people playing the parlour game of Bridge of Love. "For this forfeit, the man kneels on the floor and the lady who nominated him sits on his back. He carries her around in a circle, and must stop before all the knights, to allow them to use their right to embrace the traveler." Illustration by Dutailly. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.

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