History of the Fan

by G. Woolliscroft Rhead

[139] In the Musée du Louvre is a remarkable drawing of the great arch, with a vast concourse of people, by Jean Louis Prieur, illustrated in Lady Dilke’s work, French Engravers and Draughtsmen of the Eighteenth Century.

[140] Carlyle.

[141] Carlyle.

[142] Henri Bouchot, History on Fans.

[143] See page 164.

[144] Richard Heath, ‘Politics in Dress,’ Woman’s World, June 1889.

[145] Henri Bouchot.

[146] Henri Bouchot.

[147] Of the two hundred engravings deposited in the Bibliothèque Nationale in this year (1796) a hundred and fourteen were fan-designs mostly in praise of Napoleon. (Henri Bouchot, History on Fans.)

[148] Chaudet was a sculptor who made the first statue of Napoleon in his military dress, that on the Vendôme Column. Fontaine and Persier were architects to the Tuileries.