A "poursuivant d'armes" (apprentice herald) from the society of the donkey (Societe de l'Ane).

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A "poursuivant d'armes" (apprentice herald) from the society of the donkey (Societe de l'Ane). He wears a yellow plumed cap, an elaborate cloak in black, yellow and gold, over red trousers. The breast of his tunic shows a leaping donkey. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's "Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages" (1796)

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