Citizen Ladre, French street singer with violin and bow during the Reign of Terror, 1792. Street performer or crier in bicorne with tricolor cockade. Ladre was a former soldier who wrote Ah! ca ira! Le chanteur des rues ou crieur public. 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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