Tag: John Lewis Brown
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1 Work , John Lewis Brown’s Battle of Reichshoffen, with footnotes
The Battle of Reichshoffen (also known as the Battle of Wörth) took place near the village of Wœrth in Alsace, on the Sauer River at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War. It is referred to as the second battle of Wörth (the first occurred during the French Revolutionary wars in 1793). In the second battle depicted…
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01 painting, The amorous game, John Lewis Brown’s The charms of the grisette and the soldiers of the regiment, With Footnotes, #86
The word grisette has referred to a French working-class woman from the late 17th century and remained in common use through the Belle Époque era, albeit with some modifications to its meaning. It derives from gris (French for grey), and refers to the cheap grey fabric of the dresses these women originally wore. By the 1835 she…
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