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Henry Somm - La bicycliste, 1897

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Henry Somm - La bicycliste, 1897

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This plate, taken from La Parisienne peinte par elle-même, appears in the section on Parisian gallantry, and features the female cyclist.

Semi-satire on the new-fangled "bicycle suit" that women were starting to wear in order to ride the newly-invented safety bicycle.

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1897
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Brown University Library
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