Uniform of a cavalryman of the Light Horse, Life Guards, era of King Louis XVI. Black bicorne, scarlet uniform with gold frogging, black boots, gold-hilt sword. The regiment was dissolved in 1787. Chevau-leger de la Garde du Roi. Regne de Louis XVI. Handcoloured lithograph by Lorenzo Bianchi and Domenico Cuciniello after Hippolyte Lecomte from Costumi civili e militari della monarchia francese dal 1200 al 1820, Naples, 1825. Italian edition of Lecomte’s Civilian and military costumes of the French monarchy from 1200 to 1820.

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