Coryphees at a ball. Incroyables in jackets with outsize buttons and collars, long cravat, huge bicorn hat, and merveilleuses with decollete dresses and large lace collars. (Coryphees are ballet dancers of a rank between corps du ballet and soloist.) "What to say about these breeches with a thousand folds and large jackets that fall with as little grace as from a coat rack?" Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.

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