Chevalier Desseasau, remarkable for his vanity, died 1775. Vain Prussian dwarf who was a celebrity Londons coffee houses such as Old Andertons and the Barn, and later Fleet Debtors Prison. Dressed in black as an 18th century buck, with tricorn, buckle shoes, two swords, cane and roll of poetry. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfields Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

Chevalier Desseasau, remarkable for his vanity, died 1775. Vain Prussian dwarf who was a celebrity Londons coffee houses such as Old Andertons and the Barn, and later Fleet Debtors Prison. Dressed in black as an 18th century buck, with tricorn, buckle shoes, two swords, cane and roll of poetry. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfields Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

HENRY WILSON

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