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Henri-François d'Aguesseau - L'unificateur

By Jean-Joseph Foucou

This engraved portrait of Henri-François d'Aguesseau, France's longest-serving Chancellor, shows the full Baroque wig fashion nobles wore to project authority — some wigs of the era needed pounds of powder just to hold their curl.

Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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