Place Vendôme is one of the five “royal squares” of Paris and is located in the middle of the city
Paris. The Place Vendôme and the Column Vendôme
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Costumes and shawls. French directorate, consulate and first Empire.
Costumes and scarves in the 18th and 19th century. The fashion of classicism during the French directorate, consulate and first empire.
The Fashion of the Crinoline in the Reign of Napoleon III. Empire français.
The Reign of the Crinoline. Petticoats, Cashmere shawls, Pompadour parasols. Dressmakers, like tailors, had begun to deal in ready-made garments.
Man in redingote and chapeau claque on the Boulevard des Italiens.
Romantic fashion in the reign of Louis Philippe. The man is wearing a militaire or redingote and a chapeau claque. The woman is wearing a tightly cinched dress.
Paris. The Italien Boulevard. Le Boulevard Des Italiens 1819.
The 390-metre-long Boulevard des Italiens is located between the 2nd and 9th arrondissements of Paris
Département Finistère. Peasant and bourgeois costumes of Brittany.
French national costumes of Brittany. Département Finistère in the 19th century. Peasant and bourgeois costumes.
Costumes of Alsace. Hairdresses and headgear of the different estates.
Female national costumes of Alsace. Hairdresses and headgear of the different estates. The bendel in different shapes. The fur cap.
Paris Montmartre. View from the tower of the telegraph, 1819.
In the 19th century, the still rural Montmartre attracted numerous artists who could live a freer and cheaper life here than in the city centre.
Paris. Place Louis XV, now called Place de la Concorde.
This Square occupies all the space between the garden of the Tuileries and the entrance to the Champs-Elysées.
The Barrier of Neuilly. Entrance to Paris.
OF all the entrances to Paris, that by the Barrier of Neuilly is indisputably the most beautiful