Jacques-Bénigne Lignel Bossuet, 1627-1704, Bishop of Meaux, French theologian, renowned for his sermons and addresses. In skull cap, purple casock and white habit, with gold cross on a blue ribbon, holding a scroll and a bible. Boussuet, Eveque de Meaux. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomte’s Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.

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