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Hand-coloured engraving entitled 'Marons Rotia'

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Hand-coloured engraving entitled 'Marons Rotia'
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Hand coloured French engraving entitled 'Marons Rotia' (Roast Chestnuts) showing a Highland soldier in Paris in 1816.

The productivity of French print sellers underwent rapid expansion during the encampment of the Highland Regiments in the Bois de Boulogne while Paris was occupied after the Battle of Waterloo.

The kilt held a great fascination for the French print sellers, who frequently used puns within their work about the wearers' anatomy and what its effects could be on the female inhabitants of Paris.

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