The Palmy Days of the Café de la Rotonde. In the Palais-Royal, 1868

This plate depicts a man with a mustache smoking at the Café de la Rotonde situated in the Tuileries. He is wearing checked pants over two-tone boots as well as a blue jacket. Abstract sources: Boucher, François. 20,000 Years of Fashion. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1967. Ruppert, Jacques. Le Costume Français. Paris: Flammarion, 1996.