Fool costume. 16th century. After le Chevallier-Chevignard.

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Costume de Fou. XVIe siècle D’après le Chevallier-Chevignard.

Fool costume. 16th century. After le Chevallier-Chevignard.

Costume de Fou. XVIe siècle D’après le Chevallier-Chevignard.

Source: Paris à travers les siècles. Histoire nationale de Paris et des Parisiens depuis la fondation de Lutèce jusqu’à nos jours, par Henri Gourdon de Genouillac, 1879.

Henri Gourdon, known as Gourdon de Genouillac (1826 – 1898) was a French historian, novelist and heraldist specialising in the French nobility and its coats of arms. He was scientific editor of the Journal des employés de Paris, the Journal héraldique, the Monde artiste (1862-1898) and the Passe-temps, a literary and anecdotal journal.

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