French costumes, end of 15th century. Labourer and peasant woman 1,2, chambermaid with distaff 3, and minstrels with lute and flute 4,5. Laboureur et villageoise 1,2, chambriere 3, menetriers 4,5. XVe siecle. 1-4 taken from a manuscript La Danse des Morts in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, and 5 from La Danse des Morts de Blois. Chromolithograph by Ferdinand Sere and Auguste Racinet from Charles Louandre’s Les Arts Somptuaires, The Sumptuary Arts, Hangard-Mauge, Paris, 1858.

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