Wells, Samuel R. (Samuel Roberts), 1820-1875 · New York, Fowler and Wells · leaf 283
vanquished theGauls, he made them cut offtheir hair, in token of sub-mission, a cropped head be-ing in ancient times a badgeof slavery. In France, according toGregory of Tours, it waslong the peculiar privilegeof royal blood to wear longflowing locks, while for allother persons there were… … Fig. Mrs. Mowatt Ritchie, THE CHURCH ON LONG HAIR. 27 From the time of Clovis the French nobility wore their hairshort; but as they grew less martial they allowed it to growlonger. Long hair was the prevailing fashion at the court ofFrancis L, when that monarch, proud of the wound in hishead,…
Physiognomy · Phrenology
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