Dressing Marie Antoinette

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Clothes and hair are among the most famous things about Marie Antoinette. But who were the designers behind the drama and what happened to them after the Revolution? And how did anyone actually wear – or afford – their creations? Find out this week on Footnoting History!  

Host: Kristin

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Further Reading

Will Bashor, Marie Antoinette’s Head: The Royal Hairdresser, the Queen, and the Revolution, Lyons Press, (2013).
 
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, Yale University Press, (2015).
 
John Hardman, Marie-Antoinette, Yale University Press, (2019).
 
Jeanne Louise Henriette (Genet) Campan, Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette Queen of France, Complete Being the Historic Memoirs of Madam Campan, First Lady in Waiting to the Queen, Pantianos Classics, (1895).
 
Caroline Weber, Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, Picador, (2006).
 
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This episode is part of our Revolutionary France Series and our Women's History Series.

Music: "Evening Melodrama" by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com)

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