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Click to enlargeFull-Color Sourcebook of French Fashion: 15th to 19th Centuries

Pauquet Frères
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486428389
Page Count: 80
Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 11
500 years of French fashion are reproduced directly from a rare and valuable 19th-century publication. Artfully rendered illustrations progress chronologically from the voluminous robes of 15th-century royalty to the Empire styles of the Napoleonic era. Members of the nobility are well represented, as are dapper pages, knights, chambermaids, milkmaids, and shepherdesses. 76 full-color plates.
Dover Original selection of plates from Modes et Costumes Historiques published by René Pincebourde, Paris [n.d.].

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