Anne Buiret, a French woman pretending to be the Marquise de Champignelles, sits in an armchair next to her lawyer, who points to La Salpêtrière in the background, thereby hinting at the fact that he had been instrumental in saving her from a fate in a lunatic asylum. Lithograph by Masse.

A small veiled coffin is placed next to the advocate and Anne Buiret

Anne Buiret appropriated the name of the deceased Marquise de Douhault and as a result was imprisoned under various political regimes to be exonerated during the French Revolution; this print of 1830 still portrays Anne Buiret as a victim

[Paris] : Imp. lith. de E. Ardit

1 print : lithograph ; image 13.6 x 9.6 cm

Non dans un cercueil, dans cette prison, la nuit ... Masse del Further lettering underneath the print

Printed by Etienne Ardit (born 1801, active 1828-1854)

Alexandre Pommier, 'La femme sans nom. Encore et du nouveau sur la fausse marquise de Douhault', Mémoires de la Société archéologique de l'Orléanais, 1936

Wellcome Collection 43667i