French noble man, 14th century. He wears a tabard in yellow decorated with eyes and violet decorated with flowers, blue hood, red and grey stockings, and cracows (pointed shoes a la poulaine). From a manuscript of "Lancelot of the Lake" in the Bibliotheque Imperiale, 6964. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from "Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries," Levy Fils, Paris, 1861.