Cidalise, character in a libertine novel, 1770. La Nuit et le Moment by Claude-Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon. In costume of a fashionable French woman, long gown with full skirts, ribbons and bows. 18th century. La Femme a la mode. Cidalise. Handcoloured steel engraving by Deschamps after an illustration by Emile Wattier, within a decorative border by Anne Modave, from Augustin Challamel's Autrefois ou Le Bon Vieux Temps, Types de 18e Siecle, Challamel et Cie, 1842.

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