Caption:
French soldier, 9th century. He wears a Phrygian cap, chlamys, short chainmail armour over a tunic, stockings and shoes laced to the calf. He carries a lance and buckler (shield). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Leopold Massard from "French Costumes from King Clovis to Our Days," Massard, Mifliez, Paris, 1834.