Series of 3 postcards of a woman dressed in late 18th-century officer’s wear including a tricorn hat reacting to declarations from a woman in a gauzy dress and flowered hat. The woman is reciting the traditional French equivalent of “he loves me, he loves me not” while plucking petals from a flower. Cards numbered I, II and III. Each postcard after the first has a rhyming couplet as a caption on the recto. The first two refrains are offered here (“un peu” and “beaucoup”); the series presumably had three more cards for the refrains missing here (“passionément,” “à la folie” and “pas de tout”). Spotting to all three cards; damp stain to lower half of card no. III.
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Postcards of female and male impersonators and cross-dressing, #7778. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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