FLO4677310: Fashionable people at a party play the game of Guess the kisser, a parlour game where a blindfolded girl has to guess who is kissing her on the cheek. “Of all the forfeits, kisses are the lowest, it seems to me the most scary for the youth who play these parlour games.”” Handcoloured engraving by Gatine after an illustration by Dumailly from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677321: Fashionable people playing the parlour game of the candlestick base. “For a forfeit, one fool kisses a candlestick base which drips hot wax on a woman on a sofa. While another man holds a candlestick over a girl's head, thus transforming her into a candlestick base so that he can kiss her.” Handcoloured engraving by Gatine from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677350: Man with round bowler hat, green jacket, waistcoat, tie, breeches, whip and pink-striped stockings. When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats, arabesque embroidery, wooden heels, huge sneakers, that were found majestic or convenient by our fathers.” Illustration by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677375: Man in flowerpot hat, cherub hairstle and long ridingcoat. When fashions appear strange or embarrassing, I recall the hammer wigs, wide-sleeve coats, arabesque embroidery, wooden heels, huge sneakers, that were found majestic or convenient by our fathers.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677392: Woman in velvet bonnet with plumes, long carrick coat in wool with two pelerines (shoulder capes). “There is nothing lighter, softer and warmer than a cashmere shawl. The ladies dress down with heavy, bulky wool riding coats.”” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677421: Fashionable couple running in the rain. The gallant Mr de Boissec gives his coat and top hat to his lady, and carries her hat in his kerchief and her dog under his arm. “” An older dandy and young elegant were surprised in the park by a terrible storm. They fled, guarding their faces from the hail with an umbrella. The gentleman, very gallant (this is probably the beginning of the affair) has put his jacket over the shoulders of lady, who also has his hat on her head. He carries her wonderful conpote hat in his kerchief, and under his arm her little black dog in red collar with bells. What a fool! The white knight is soaked. He is freezing and grimaces horribly. And the lady, the ungrate, laughs with glee at the adventure! Illustration by Jean-Baptiste Isabey. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677433: Man in long carrick coat with five pelerines or capes. “Our young men shorten their jackets but lengthen their coats. The coat is long, heavy and awkward, it drags along the ground like a dressing gown. It sweeps the streets, and has to be lifted up like a lady's dress when crossing the gutter. The solution is quite simple - give the excess in the coat to the jacket.”” / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677520: Cartoon of French and English costumes, circa 1815. The small size of English ladies' hats, the excessive length of their bodices and mean cut of their dresses contrast with our Parisian fashions.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677549: The Forgets. A woman in the shade of a tree eats oublies (pastries, also known as pleasures), while two women and a girl spin an arrow on a portable barrel as a man in gaiters looks on. Handcoloured engraving by Schenker from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677710: Rollercoaster in the Jardin Baujon, early 19th century. Fashionable society enjoying the “” aerial walks,”” with cars pulled up the central ramp before riding fast chutes to left and right. A cafe occupied the central arches below. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677798: Woman on a chaise longue in fringed shawl admiring a new hat held by her milliner, while a maid holds a bottle of perfume. The best remedy, or the Longchamp hat. New styles in clothes, hats, dresses and carriages were debuted at race meetings at Longchamp. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677823: The hot hand or Paumele. Wonderful 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. Two women have the fashionable short hairstyle called the victim or martyr. Illustration by Dominique Bosio. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677835: Three Parisian graces, circa 1800. Three unattractive maids wear the latest Paris fashions. “It's certainly true that in fashion a servile herd of imitators abounds. Even the ugliest cannot wait to adopt fashions that suit others better.”” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4677956: Fabric shop workers. Women in muslin dresses, bonnets and shawls embroidering, sewing, cutting cloth and wrapping bolts of fabric. “If ever coquetry were lost by women, one would find it again at the ladies counter.” Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesanger's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674181: Esuret, Count of Toulouse, 770-797, son of Torson. He wears the costume of the 13th century: remarkable skullcap, iron corselet (bodice), long hanging sleeves lined with ermine, stockings. From a manuscript in Toulouse library. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from “” French Costumes from KingClovis to Our Days,”” Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674347: Fonio grass, Digitaria sanguinalis. SANGVINELLA. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674364: Infantry Sergeant, 13th century. He wears a scarlet hat, white jaque (shirt), steel corselet (bodice), tunic with sleeves of violet damask, white stockings and cracows (foals). Dagger or misericorde in a red scabbard. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from “” French Costumes from KingClovis to Our Days,”” Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674368: Alkanet or bugloss variety, Anchusa species (Anchusa terza). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674373: Knight of the Order of the Broom-Pod, 13th century. He wears the necklace of broom-pods, fleurs de lilies and a cross, a violet chaperon or hood, long white damask coat of arms, gold belt, sword and dagger, blue stockings and gold shoes. The order was created by King Louis IX on his wedding to Margeret of Provence in 1234. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from “” French Costumes from KingClovis to Our Days,”” Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834., Massard, Leopold (1812-1889) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674424: Butchers'-Broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674438: Alder buckthorn or glossy buckthorn, Frangula alnus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674442: Bunch-flowered daffodil, Narcissus tazetta. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674467: Mexican marigold or Aztec marigold, Tagetes erecta (Gerofano indiano maggiore). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674489: Gooseberry, Ribes uva-crispa. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674562: Common mallow, Malva sylvestris. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4674606: Black pepper, Piper nigrum (Pepe). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri della Materia Medicinale di Pedacio Dioscoride Anazarbeo (Commentary on the Materia Medica of Dioscorides), Vincenzo Valgrisi, Venice, 1568. / Bridgeman Images