Claude de France, Duchess of Brittany, first wife to King Francis I of France, 1499-1517. She wears a costume composed of two robes on top of each other, the skirts supported by a huge vertugadin or farthingale. Drawn and lithographed by Leopold Massard after a portrait in Roger de Gaignieres' portfolio VII 12 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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