Costumes des représentans du peuple, membres des deux conseils, du directoire exécutif, des ministres, des tribunaux, des messagers d'état, huissiers, et autres fonctionnaires publics, etc.
A hand-coloured 1796 Paris costume book by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, with engravings by Labrousse, published by Deroy to document the dress of French revolutionary officials, ministers and court members. The four plates show standing figures in full regalia against plain floors and walls, with the official role captioned beneath each one. A designer could take from them the tailored cut of late eighteenth-century French civic dress, the sash and embroidered trim details, and the restrained colour palette of red, blue and white.
