Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
 

Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

by Caroline Weber

In this dazzling new vision of the ever-fascinating queen, a dynamic young historian reveals how Marie Antoinette’s bold attempts to reshape royal fashion changed the future of France






Marie Antoinette has always stood as an icon of supreme style, but surprisingly none of her biographers have paid sustained attention to her clothes. In Queen of... (read more)

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I loved this. It is a history of the French Revolution through the prism of Marie Antoinette's clothing. The financial statistics are staggering. It is a wonder the peasants didn't revolt sooner.

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