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<p>A depiction of a woman playing with an early form of the yo-yo, or "Bandalore" (as it was called in England then), from a fashion journal, 1791.
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The most common French word for Yo-yo at the time was "Emigrette", but it is called the "Joujou de Normandie" in a caption to a version of this image which was included in Albert Charles Auguste Racinet's <i>Le Costume Historique</i> (1888).</div>
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1791<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1791-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
Usually claimed to be from a French fashion journal (no further details given). Published in the German <i>Journal des Luxus und der Moden</i> (October 1791). <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://zs.thulb.uni-jena.de/rsc/viewer/jportal_derivate_00252574/JLM_1791_H010_0033.tif?logicalDiv=jportal_jparticle_00084829">[1]</a>