Frankish noblewoman in luxury litter carried by four porters with escort, cavalry, and olifant horn players. Era of Charlemagne, 9th Century. Litiere avec escorte, joueurs de Buccine. Sous Charlemagne, IXe Siecle. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Armand Jean Heins from Edmond Cattier’s Cortege Historique des Moyens de Transport, Historical Cortege of Modes of Transport, Libraire Universelle de Veuve J. Rozez, Brussels, 1886.

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