Toque In the Napoleonic era, the French first empire replaced the coronets of traditional ("royal") heraldry with a rigorously standardized system (as other respects of "Napoleonic" coats of arms) of toques, reflecting the rank of the bearer. Thus a Napoleonic duke used a toque with seven ostrich feathers and three lambrequins, a count a toque with five feathers and two lambrequins, a baron three feathers and one lambrequin, a knight only one ostrich feather (see Nobility of the First French Empire). Toque is also used for a hard-type hat or helmet, worn for riding, especially in equestrian sports, often black and
A Kind of Loving to love. The novel has had some influence on the literary community, leaving the label "lad-lit" behind, although the term itself was not coined until the 1990s. In 1962 the novel was turned into a film "A Kind of Loving" directed by John Schlesinger and starring Alan Bates and June Ritchie. In 1982 ITV company Granada Television made a ten-part television series "A Kind of Loving" starring Clive Wood as Vic Brown and Joanne Whalley as Ingrid Brown. A Kind of Loving A Kind of Loving is a novel by the English novelist Stan Barstow. It has also been translated