Bibliophile Gallery

Marguerite de Chalons, comtesse de Tonnerre d. 1463

Marguerite de Chalons, comtesse de Tonnerre, wife of Olivier de Husson, chamberlain to King Charles VII of France, d. 1463. She wears a hennin and a tunic dress with mahoitre sleeves. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a figure in a tomb in the college church of Lille in Bernard de Montfaucon's collection (III 30) from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. Date:

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King Charles X of France 1757-1836

King Charles X of France 1757-1836 in military uniform of a colonel in the Garde Nationale with grand-cordon bleu sash and chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece, Ordre de la Toison-d'Or. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

Uniform of a Chasseur-Voltigeur des troupes

French light infantry uniform of a Chasseur-Voltigeur des troupes legeres, Napoleonic era. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administration de Librairie, Paris, 1852. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

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