The suit reveals a personal side of the doctor who published instructions for treating a deadly syphilis-like disease ravaging the north shore of the Lower St. Lawrence, the "Mal de la Baie St. Paul," in 1784. Arriving in Canada in 1757, Badelart was remembered as a fashionable man, "dressing as a Parisian would." The original vivid orange of this suit can best be observed in the pleats at the lower edge of the back of the coat.
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