French dandy and belle, Revolutionary era. Reactionary royalist fop in bicorne, wide-lapel frock coat, high collar and cravatte, holding a club. Beauty in ringlets, embroidered shawl, Roman-style robe and sandals. L'Incroyable et la Merveillaise. Handcoloured steel engraving by Leopold Massard after an illustration by Theophile Fragonard from Augustin Challamel and Wilhelm Tenint’s Les Francais sous la Revolution, The French under the Revolution, Challamel, Paris, 1843.

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