Page or squire, Varlet ou damoiseau, to a knight, 15th century France. He wears an embroidered surtout, red pourpoint and hose, and holds an epee and shield without coat of arms. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a tarot card by Jacquemin Gringonneur in the Bibliotheque Nationale (Nicolas Xavier Willemin II 176) from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852.

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