Right of passage during a town fete, Alsace, France, 19th century. Two young men hold a rope across a street and demand payment for passage from a couple in traditional costume. A boy fires a pistol in the air and a band (drums and trumpet) plays music. Le droit de passage, d'apres un tableau de Bapst. Woodcut after a painting by Bapst from Charles Delon's Les Peuples de la terre, Peoples of the Earth, Paris, 1890.

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