Coiffures through the ages.

Towards the end of the eleventh century, the archbiſhop of Rouen declared war againſt long hair.


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In the reign of Henry IV. the beard was ſhortened; it was worn only three fingers in length, in the ſhape of a fan, rounded and ſet off with two long, ſtiff whiſkers, in the manner of a cat's beard. Afterwards, one the two whiſkers were retained, with a little toupee of hair in the middle and quite round the under-lip.

--"French Faſhions and Dreſſes"  The Town & Country  Magazine; or, Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment.  January, 1769.