In the transition from wigs to natural hair, the cut "à la Titus" was important. This was a layered cut usually with some tresses hanging down, named after the Roman Titus Junius Brutus, a character in Voltaire's play "Brutus", when the actor François-Joseph Talma shocked audiences by performing (in fact initially another character) with short hair and wearing a toga. The style was adopted by both men and adventurous women like Lady Caroline Lamb, the "Journal de Paris" reporting in 1802 that "more than half of elegant women were wearing their hair or wig "à la Titus"".