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Merveilleuses Collection

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: Merveilleuses playing the game of Hot Hands

Merveilleuses playing the game of Hot Hands
Merveilleuses in flimsy muslin dresses play the game of Hot Hands. One girl buries her head in another's lap, and has to guess which friend slaps her arm

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: Merveilleuses playing the game of blind man's buff

Merveilleuses playing the game of blind man's buff. A blindfolded woman runs in a garden as one woman strokes her hand and another grabs her muslin dress

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: Music cover, The Merveilleuses Lancers

Music cover, The Merveilleuses Lancers, melodies by Hugo Felix, arranged by Leonard Williams Date: 1906

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: Merveilleuses playing the four corners game of tag

Merveilleuses playing the four corners game of tag
The four corners game of tag. Five merveilleuses in muslin dresses play the game of four corners, a version of tag. Illustration by Dominique Bosio

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: The Merveilleuses by Basil Hood

The Merveilleuses by Basil Hood
Promotional postcard for The Merveilleuses by Basil Hood, based on a play by Victorien Sardou (Theatre des Varietes, Paris, 16th December 1873); music Hugo Felix

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: Merveilleuse Greqcque

Merveilleuse Greqcque
Though some merveilleuses carry freedom to excess, others adopt a simpler, Grecian style in admiration of the heroic age which inspires the idealistic revolutionaries Date: 1794

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: French Merveilleuses

French Merveilleuses
A trendy couple - an incroyable and his merveilleuse - show off their extreme fashion statements

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: Merveilleuses

Merveilleuses
The extravagant fashions of the MERVEILLEUSES (or sometimes INCROYABLES) are adopted in derisive emulation of the costumes of the erstwhile aristocrats

Background imageMerveilleuses Collection: Two Incroyables, 1795

Two Incroyables, 1795
Two incroyables (unbeliev- ables) - the male equivalent of the merveilleuses whose extreme fashions were a defiance of old aristocratic forms of elitist dress


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