Marie Antoinette had her hair parted for parading bejeweled while Paris ran short of bread after a meager harvest.
Parisian power over la mode dates back to Marie Antoinette and her extravagant collaborations with the dressmaker Rose Bertin.
Police also found the forged signatures of JRR Tolkien, Oliver Cromwell, Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette at Formhal's home, the court was told.
Police also found the forged signatures of JRR Tolkien, Oliver Cromwell, Elizabeth I and Marie Antoinette at Mr Formhal's home, the court was told.
The new store's powder blue and gold walls and velvet-upholstered chairs are inspired, she explained, by Marie Antoinette's theater in the Petit Trianon at Versailles.
Cynics are paraphrasing Marie Antoinette: Let them drink heavy water.
Legend has it that when Marie Antoinette was caught at Varennes trying to escape the French Revolution, rebels recognized the queen because of her Houbigant perfume, which only royalty could afford.
Kirsten Dunst, who even at her ditziest gives off a whiff of the narcoleptic, stars as Marie Antoinette, betrothed as an Austrian teen-ager to the clueless Dauphin of France (Jason Schwartzman).
The cast is a mixed salad: Rip Torn as the randy old King, Asia Argento as his mistress, Judy Davis as a court harpy, and Marianne Faithfull, no less, as the mother of Marie Antoinette.
Mr. Lagerfeld was also one of the first to learn of Ms. Kruger's role as Marie Antoinette in "Farewell, My Queen, " a new film about the Franco-Austrian queen's final three days in the court of Versailles.
Madame Tussaud was born Marie Grosholtz in France in 1761, and learned to sculpt wax as a teenager -- her early subjects included Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin -- and went on to become a favorite of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
France's rehabilitation of Marie-Antoinette began in 1858 with a biography by the Goncourt brothers and continues today with books by Evelyne Lever, a historian.
Marie-Antoinette's love of interior decoration is conveyed through the exquisite furniture and porcelain with which she surrounded herself, such as her mother-of-pearl and gilded bronze writing desk.
There is a lock of hair, the chemise Marie-Antoinette wore in the Temple prison, and the tiny prayer book in which she penned a final message to her children.
The greatest testament to their research, though, may be at Versailles itself, where they've recently seen the complete restoration of a flying wooden staircase, collapsed since shortly after the Revolution, in Marie-Antoinette's Marlborough Tower.
The first works to be digitised will range from feminist pamphlets about Queen Marie-Antoinette (1791), to the invention of the first combustion engine-driven submarine (1858), and an account of a stuffed Hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange (1775).
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It is not for nothing that Leila Trabelsi has come to symbolize for the Tunisian protesters everything that Marie-Antoinette did for the sans-culottes, and that it is sympathy for her and her family that colors the lament from French allies of the regime.
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