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Scope and Contents Complete series of six postcards showing a amle impersonator approaching a young woman and convincing her to learn how to ride the young man's bicycle. The narrative takes place in front of a painted studio backdrop of a Paris city scene. Each card includes a snippet of dialog between the two characters; the woman identifies herself in one as an "ouvrière dans une grande maison de Modes de la Rue de la Paix." Divided verso; imprinted "a utiliser seulement dans le régime intérieur (FRANCE,...

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Female impersonator with gray hair and handlebar moustache dressed in the traditional garb of a woman from Brittany, including a bigouden (starched lace headdress), and with a market basket on one arm and an umbrella under the other. Addressed to Monsieur Dumont; signed Horace (?). Message refers teasingly to representation of gender on postcard.

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Addressed to Mademoiselle Gratecap. Depicts couple dressed in traditional garb of the Poitou region on the west coast of France.

Scope and Contents Three postcards (nos. 2, 3 and 4) from a series of unknown length recounting episodes adapted from the melodramatic novel Les Deux gosses (Jules Rouff et Cie., 1880) by the popular author and playwright Pierre Decourcelle (1856-1926). The "two kids" of the title are Fanfan, the son of a diplomat carted off and raised by a married pair of petty criminals, and Claudinet, the ragged natural son of the couple. Decourcelle subsequently adapted the novel as a drama; in an 1896 production at the...

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Comic postcard of female impersonator in the traditional garb of a Poitevin peasant woman. Addressed to Mademoiselle Legras Nadel.

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Series of two postcards (with card 174) representing scenes and characters from La Mérine à Nastasie (1902), a play by Yann Saint- Acer, written in the Saintongeais dialect of the west coast of France.

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Series of two postcards (with card 173) representing scenes and characters from La Mérine à Nastasie (1902), a play by Yann Saint-Acer, written in the Saintongeais dialect of the west coast of France.

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Series of three postcards representing humorous scenes from the daily life of an older woman played by a female impersonator. Addressed to Louise Hautain.

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Addressed to Auguste Morel. Woman dressed as a chef wearing a toque, men's coat and men's 18th-century kneepants and hose while holding up a fluted cake pan. She leans against a decor suggesting a country kitchen. Printed in red at the bottom of the recto is a recipe for Swiss cake.

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Female impersonator holding a porcelain doll and dressed as a nanny in a lace cap and apron.