George Brummell, aka Beau Brummell in Caen, Calvados (14)

I'd only vaguely heard of Beau Brummell many years ago, although I was not acquainted with anything about his life history, other than knowing that he was a dandy. But a fuller picture of him makes very interesting reading, such as the hours he took to dress, the bills his obsession for clothes amounted to, his flight to France from his English creditors, and his death in Caen in very reduced circumstances. He is buried here in what are now university grounds in the very small Protestant cemetery. Interestingly, his clothes appear to have had a subsequent influence on the way we dress.