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Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette’s beauty regime

Marie Antoinette’s beauty regime quickly became a source of public fascination. Madame Campan reported, “All wished instantly to have the same dress as the Queen and to wear the feathers and flowers to which her beauty, then in its brilliancy, lent an indescribable charm. The expenditure of the younger ladies was necessarily much increased; mothers [read more]

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