Forgive the language but they are!
Grrr...and then they have to be painted, this sucker won't be done until the weekend at this point. I'll try to compensate by posting two pages next week, which I think I can pull off, considering they are less rococo detail-rific.
Only the French would be sick enough to come up with that luscious style. They knew it would make other countries mad with detail-creation. History should be rewritten, it was not a lackluster government with weak leaders, a severe national debt and a horrific famine that caused the French Revolution! No! It was madness in the peasants, caused by looking at all the recent details in the construction projects of French aristocrats.
Madness (And a disturbing amount of partiotic ferver) are the only thing that can explain this hat, hell, the whole outfit! -
1793-94, Jacques-Louis David, "Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Mihaud, Deputy of the Convention"
Say what you will about Americans. I know we're a kooky lot, but at least we were sensible enough in the 1790's not to to put on a hat like that...
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