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Queen of fashion
what Marie Antoinette wore to the Revolution
By Weber, Caroline
- ISBN
- 978-0-80507-949-4
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Holt, 2006.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2006
We are apt to think that fashion plays a negligible role in world history. Battles, assassinations, dictators, volcanic eruptions, mass migrations, political philosophies-oh yes, these all figure greatly, but fashion? No big deal. We are wrong to think so, as Weber (French, Barnard Coll., Columbia Univ.; Terror and Its Discontents ) shows us in this biography of Marie Antoinette that tracks her life from the time she ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
