These have been denoted the garde rein or culet. Usually a skirt of mail or at least a mail brayette was worn under these defenses. The shoulders were protected by pauldrons of lames, overlapping from the bottom up. These lames were carried well around over the back and breast ...
Long hair piled high on top of the head or cut to a short, curvy crop, needs the balance provided by large, dramatic earrings. Those with tresses frizzed into Pre-Raphaelite waves will like the look of huge hoops or ethnic danglers in wood […]
We see that in the conferences at Caen she neither treated Guadet with distinction nor had any particular liking for him, although the bent of his mind and his humour should have pleased her; but the fact is, Guadet has some pride in his soul, did not know how to flatter, toady and Jesuitise in her company as Barbaroux did."
But how could she have cabbalized out of her imagination the things she'd seen photographed in that book — how could anyone have conceived of it without the proof of the images?
