Finding Beau Brummell in Caen

As discussed in the earlier post about the “We are Amused”: Victorian Humour in the Digital Age conference, Regency fashion influencer Beau Brummell is buried in Caen, France. However, we couldn’t find his gravestone at the time, so I promised faithfully to continue the search. Friends, I have met with success. Today we take a short detour into a major nineteenth-century British figure who predates Punch and Punch’s Pocket Book: George “Beau” Brummell (1778–1840). Who was Beau Brummell? Basi...