[130] Journal of the Archæological Association, vol. xxvi., 1870.
[131] See Meaume, Recherches sur la vie et les ouvrages de Jacques Callot, vol. ii. p. 287.
[132] Art and Letters, Jan. 1888.
[133] Honoré de Balzac (Sur Catherine de Médicis).
[134] In French salons, about the year 1728, the fashion prevailed of ‘Les Pantins Méchaniques,’ that every one carried and worked by the aid of strings while chatting of one thing and another. Lacroix, XVIII Siècle, France, 1700-87, p. 507.
From 1748 to 1750 it was in high vogue among the beau monde as a diverting plaything for gentlemen and ladies. Wright, Caricature History of the Georges, note, p. 251.
[135] The subject of America is returned to later, when in the ‘George Washington’ fan we have in the centre a portrait of Washington, and, ranged on either side, portraits of the succeeding ten presidents of the United States. This, a lithograph, with painted decorations in silver, bearing the inscription, ‘Vagneur-Dupré. No. 530. Lith. de Lemercier.’
[136] Several versions of the above subject appear: 1. King seated under canopy, three notables and three ecclesiastics on either side, M. Calonne reading speech, 2. King and his two brothers under canopy, four nobles and four ecclesiastics on either side. 3. A much more elaborate performance, king and two royal princes under canopy; four nobles and six ecclesiastics, M. Calonne, and clerk at table; a courtier on each side of the composition.
[137] Dictionnaire des Hommes Marquans, ii. p. 519, quoted by Carlyle.
[138] Richard Heath, ‘Politics in Dress,’ Woman’s World, June 1889.