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2. Jennifer Heuer, “Hats on for the Nation! Women, Servants, Soldiers and the ‘Sign of the French’,” French History 16.1 (2002), 30;
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4. John Woodward, A Treatise on Heraldry (Edinburgh, 1896), 377.
5. Simon Schama, Patriots and Liberators: Revolution in the Netherlands (New York, 1977), 63.