Jeanne de Flandre, wife of Jean de Montfort, Duke of Brittany. Wearing the costume she wore entering Nantes with her husband 1341. The tall conical hennin was called La Syrienne, brought back from Syria in the Crusades. After a miniature in Roger Gaignieres' portfolios. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Georges Jacques Gatine after an illustration by Louis Marie Lante from Galerie Francaise de Femmes Celebres, Paris, 1827.

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