<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>L'heureuse rencontre de la Marquise Testonniere et du Vicomte de la Bredache pensionnaire des petites Maisones celebre auteur des Nouvelles modes de nos petits Maîtres Français</dc:title><dc:date>[1770s?]</dc:date><dc:language>fre</dc:language><dc:description>A parody on the French fashions:  The woman wears a gigantic headdress, the top of which incorporates a windmill, battlements, and a small man defecating over her forehead. She walks carefully on the cobblestone street in high heeled shoes and holds a fan in her left hand and a walking stick hangs from her arm.  The man's hat is shaped like a boat, with an oarsman in the back and a man in the front attempting to "land" on the woman's head using a boat hook. He carries a small fluffy dog in his arm and holds a child by his hand. The child's garment is a one-piece suit and is shown unbuttoned</dc:description><dc:description>Title engraved below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Approximate date of publication surmised from costume.</dc:description><dc:description>Four lines of verse in two columns beneath title, with the heading "Air: Reveillez vous Belle endormie": Ce n'est plus pour nous un mistere, De porter un moulin a vent; Nous avones la tete legere, Ca fait quelle tourne a tout vent.</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>