
Paris saleswoman of cream in 1774.
Marchande de crème 1774. D’après Poisson.
Source: Paris à travers les siècles. Histoire nationale de Paris et des Parisiens depuis la fondation de Lutèce jusqu’à nos jours, par Nicolas Jules Henri Gourdon de Genouillac. Published 1879.
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