Rose Bertin, the Creator of Fashion at the Court of

Rose Bertin, the Creator of Fashion at the Court of Marie-Antoinette (Classic Reprint)

The present work, which I have translated and in many places adapted from the French, is not a mere biographical account of Rose Bertin, the famous milliner of Marie-A ntoinette. The author has made a minute study of the fashions of the day, and gives us a description of the eccentricities of the last days of the French monarchy as far as dress was concerned. He makes us acquainted with the peculiar tastes, and one may add the aberrations, of fashionable and aristocratic Versailles under Louis XV. and Louis XVL But the author of the present work does more ;he allows us here and there a peep into a private boudoir of a great lady of the period, and, above all, into the life and character of that unfortunate Queen, who, though wayward and petulant, proud and thoughtless, could be kind and generous and true to her friends. Rose Bertin knew it. The Queen had admitted her to familiarity, and, although she often availed herself of this august friendship in her own interests and in those of her relations, she was grateful for it until her death.
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Country USA
Manufacturer Forgotten Books
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2012-05-19

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Forgotten Books
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2012-05-19

Rose Bertin, the Creator of Fashion at the Court of Marie-Antoinette (Classic Reprint)

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