Actors in costume during the French Revolution. An actress has a tricolor cockade fixed in her hair, surrounded by a gentleman, Pierrot, soldier and Roman in laurel crown. Actors were radicalized by Jospeh Chenier's anti-monarchist Charles IX in 1789. Les acteurs. Handcoloured steel engraving by Leopold Massard after an illustration by Henri Baron from Augustin Challamel and Wilhelm Tenint’s Les Francais sous la Revolution, The French under the Revolution, Challamel, Paris, 1843.

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