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.

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