£15 Marie Chamand
1816
Ref: p2424
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13x19 cm
Marie Chamand Comtesse de la Valette.
Engraved from an original Pencil Drawing after Isabey of Paris.
Published by John Bell, April 1st 1816.
Marie Chamand (1781-1855), wife of Comte de Lavalette, French politician and Napoleonic general.
In 1815 she saved her husband from execution by changing clothes with him and enabling him to escape from prison during the second Bourbon restoration.
Stipple engraving, hand coloured.
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