Evening party at Coblentz (between rue Taitbout and rue Neuve-Lepelletier; Paris). A group of women and children (including a black woman) sit listening to music from a hurdygurdy man and woman with tambourine. In 1791-1792; the previously unfashionable Boulevard des Italians became the favorite promenade for the royalist partisans. To be seen there was a public profession of aristocracy; an enlistment in the army of the princes; an espousal of the interests and opinions of the French refugees in Koblentz. After 1795; it became the fashionable place for incroyables; merveilleuses; and muscadins. At night from 6 til midnight; up to 4;000 people jostled; elbowed and bumped along this street. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre; Paris; 1817.