The French Revolution, its plunders and its sackings, was a shady and violent period when two social classes, hermetically separated for a long time, collided violently, mixing for a short moment of the History their symbols and their attribus.

Extremely rare testimony of the incongruities that we could then cross in the streets of Paris, this populace feminine portrait , combed and dressed as a woman of "quarter des halles" (Paris food's market's wher began Revolution), but raising an incredible pearl necklace, deserving of a Duchess.

Without doubt, the fruit of a plunder, this necklace is a trophy, worn with pride and haughtiness, such a revenge.

The artist, of an immense talent, who painted this incredible portrait, knew how to outline on this face, a mixture of harshness and challenge, of the women who made the French Revolution.

No doubt that in another era, this woman could not have offered herself the talents of such a miniaturist, who did not sign this masterpiece.