Cafe du Foy

[wolfshadow713.livejournal.com]

I've been sorting through Google Images and have found that there are (unsurprisingly) a number of depictions of Camille's speech at the Cafe du Foy. Can anyone point me to one of the better known/contemporary to the event ones? I'm looking for something that that has a relatively accurate depiction of the cafe at that time.

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[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I haven't anything nearby to refer to (sorry, in a rush at the mo so no time to look today!) but here's an idea - look at the height of the chestnut trees - there's a fashion plate from the early 1780's in Aileeen Ribero's Fashion in the French Revolution of where the trees look like fairly newly planted saplings - this may just be the artist of the plate saving time by drawing smaller trees (!), but if the trees were newly planted in the 1780's, a depiction of '1789' showing huge trees would suggest the artist made the plate much later. It's something I notice in Laurel and Hardy films - how low the (then, newly planted) palm trees are in early Hollywood films. If the reproductions are big enough, the address and date of the artist, engraver and print shop/date are often along the bottom edge.