Gabriel Auguste Claire Armand de Fraguier occupies the comfortable middle of the value scale, avoiding both extremes to hold the eye in a sustained middle grey. The palette achieves thermal balance - reds and blues, ochres and greens, each holding the other in check. All colours lean toward grey, building depth through value rather than colour punch. Only 10.3% is devoted to #BB955C, yet that small allocation delivers the palette's entire chromatic tension. A value spread of 71 units gives the palette both depth and air - shadows are genuinely dark, lights genuinely light. Palette 1 sits within the larger chromatic argument that Gabriel Auguste Claire Armand de Fraguier's complete body of work advances.