The Muscadins(or Incroyable, the Incredible) first appeared around 1792, known for their royalist sympathies and so named for the musk perfume they wore in defiance of revolutionary austerity. They re-emerged after the fall of Robespierre, ending the Terror, and were key thugs in what has become known as The White Terror, a backlash against jacobin oppression, violence, and Robespierrean virtue. The jeunesse dorée roamed the streets of Paris drinking, toasting the monarchy and lashing out at patriots with sticks. And they looked fabulous doing it. Typified by their adherence to ancien regime knee-breeches and exaggerated English style frock coats with impossibly large collars, and powdered hair dressed outlandishly in either multiple braids or "dog-eared" style, cut short in the back à la victime and long beside the face. They were literally roving bands of angry dandies. By the late 1790's however, sporting a Muscadin hairdo would no longer get you arrested (as it could in 1795) as the various styles were adopted and absorbed into the fashionable and ephemeral society of the Directoire.
Attributes of the Homme Incroyable:
-Ribbons on the trousers just above the boots or leggings.
-A bicorne hat insouciantly flipped up at the front and back
-Impossibly high collars and impossibly wide lapels
-Very tight trousers
-Pirate's gold ring in one ear
-Elaborate sausage curls called "dogs ears."
-Haircut à la victime, short at the nape of the neck, copying the haircut given those about to be sent to the guillotine
-A cane or cudgel held in the hand and referred to as the "executive power."
Attributes of the Homme Incroyable:-Ribbons on the trousers just above the boots or leggings.
-A bicorne hat insouciantly flipped up at the front and back
-Impossibly high collars and impossibly wide lapels
-Very tight trousers
-Pirate's gold ring in one ear
-Elaborate sausage curls called "dogs ears."
-Haircut à la victime, short at the nape of the neck, copying the haircut given those about to be sent to the guillotine
-A cane or cudgel held in the hand and referred to as the "executive power."
-Suppress the "R" (as in Revolution) in all words and exclaim regularly « C’est incoyable! ».
