A small mirror worth only a few cents. A cardboard box. Shoes without mildew. Clean underwear. Scraps of ribbon. These things became important to and...
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In his last post, Versailles offers his own comment about the last days of Marie Antoinette. At this stage of her life, Marie Antoinette was no longer a...
For 15 years Marie Antoinette set the fashion trends for Europe and all the Western world. But behind the great lady of fashion, Marie Antoinette as the model...
The David sketch of Marie Antoinette on route to the guillotine gave to art and history it's most indelible image and memory of the French Revolution. That...
Axel - I think you hit the nail right on the head. I think the most common reaction to David's sketch is shock. One is used to seeing a luxuriously-gowned,...
Hello Axel, I do not often, well never really, email to this site, but I always read all the mails, I do not think that I know enough about MA to mail on her,...
P.S. Axel on my last message, just that I think that the drawing by "David" although probably very acurate seems to me, if you look at the pen strokes etc., to...
re: I can't imagine what was going through her mind. Relief, regret, resignation? Perhaps nothing mattered any more. With her husband dead, her children...
"What a horrible thought…. the beautifully gowned and coiffed Marie Antoinette with head lice and b.o. I don’t know about the head lice, but chances are...
Hi, I'm a lurker who rarely speaks in forums and mailinglists, but always feels obliged to do so whenever someone mentions the "extremely-bad-hygiene" of the...
I know, this has not exactly something to do with Queen Marie Antoinette, but it concerns her son, the Dauphin Louis XVII. The French Royalist Garin de...
The toilette of the day was part of the "entertainment" that gallants could be permitted to witness - not the grande toilette, but the later, less thorough...
Hi David: From what I read, people only 'bathed' (total body emersion) when a physician/surgeon told them to. How much attention are you going to pay to a guy...
Hi David: Marat suffered fom a terrible skin condition that necessitated his bathing on a regular basis. Between this and his arm pits, he couldn't wait to...
Hi Aurora: Crude toothbrushes did exist, but they weren't popular because they did more harm than good. Made from boar's hair, the bristles were not very...
Indeed a great sketch. ... One of the most famous, no doubt about that. At least among common people. ... society. ... Yes, but remember that Marie Antoinette...
Hi jess: Using a large coach would have appeared obvious and suspicious for the Royal Family's escape except for the fact that it was supposed to be the coach...
Hi, Like in Roman times in the 18th century bath houses as well as bathtubs actually existed! Most decent homes had a wash basin where they would sponge...
Hi KAT: I don't think it is the pot, bidet, pitcher, or basin....it's what you do with it once it's been used several times. And how do you gracefully use a...
"And how do you gracefully use a pot when seated with strangrs or, worse yet, family. Somehow an "excuse me" won't cut it when you've pulled your floor-length...
Hi, I have known this for awhile! The fact that it is being filmed is already in a movie database. I just hope they remember to film the movie in the country...
"Marie Antoinette exiled in the Endless Mountains of PA." In old maps of colonial America, I recall seeing an area of Pennsylvania called the "Endless...
Perhaps, but i think, the 'Style Channel', where she would have been a regularly featured guest/spotlight. Or, she might have appeared on QVC as a guest ...
After reading about it in the 'Messages' section here, I ordered the movie "L'Autrichienne" from Amazon.fr. Ordering was easy and the price fair; I was charged...
--Very perceptive and very amusing. You have to remember that when Marie is primary occupant of this Chateau that two previous occupants have already...
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