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Caption: "Le thé parisien, suprème bon ton au commencement du XIX siècle" (Parisian tea, exquisite tone at the beginning of the 19th century), 1801. At the time of the French Directory, the members of the "Jeunesse dorée" (The Gilded Youth) were called "incroyables", in contrast to the vulgarity of the sans-culottes, exhibiting ostentatious elegance and distinguished by their manner of speech. Engraving by Huyot after an illustration by F. S. Harriet, engraved by Adrien Godefroy (1777-1865). "Directoire, Consulat et Empire. Moeurs et usages, lettres, sciences et arts. France, 1795-1815" (Directory, Consulate and the Empire of France. Customs and traditions, letters, sciences and arts. France, 1795-1815), by Paul Lacroix. Published in Paris, 1884.
Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION
Credit: Album / Prisma
Image size: 3983 × 2848 px | 32.5 MB
Print size: 33.7 × 24.1 cm | 1568.1 × 1121.3 in (300 dpi)