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PARIS : MARTINET

Galerie des Enfans de Mars, ou collection des divers uniformes de tous les Corps composant la ci-devant Garde.

c.1817

RCIN 1082307

George’s interest in military uniform was well known. This book of illustrations of French uniform was a gift from Louis-Philippe, son of Philippe ‘Egalité’, duc d’Orleans, who had been executed in 1793. Louis-Philippe lived in exile under Napoleon but returned to France after the Battle of Waterloo, and was crowned as King of the French in 1830.

Presented by Louis-Philippe, duc d’Orléans in 1817

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