Marie Antoinette White Wig for Fancy Dress Costumes & Outfits Accessory

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Charged with treason against the French First Republic, Louis XVI was separated from his family and tried in December. He was found guilty by the Convention, led by the Jacobins who rejected the idea of keeping him as a hostage. On 15 January 1793, by a majority of six votes, he was condemned to death by guillotine and executed on 21 January 1793. [186] Marie Antoinette in the Temple By the 1790s Marie Antoinette was perhaps the most despised of all Ancien Régime figures. After being toppled from the throne in August 1792 she spent 14 months in prison before being given a show trial and sent for guillotining.

Castelot, André (1962). Marie-Antoinette. Paris, France: Librairie académique Perrin. ISBN 978-2262048228.The wig is not WHITE, like most 18th century costume wigs, but it is very very platinum blonde, and very very shiny. It’s also a color very hard to match with hair extensions, if you are wanting to add more hair to your wig. Bombelles, Marquis de & Journal, vol I 1977, pp.258–65 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFBombelles,_Marquis_deJournal,_vol_I1977 ( help)

Antoinette found her days in the French court as difficult as the nights in her husband’s bedroom. Versailles was a marked contrast to the refined gentility of her mother’s court in Austria. Couples flirted openly and men urinated on indoor walls, while idle aristocrats occupied their time with sexual affairs, political intrigues and gossip. Antoinette came to hate the politics and monotonous rituals of court, making several powerful enemies, most notably Louis XV’s mistress Madame du Barry. As both a newcomer and a foreigner, the young queen became the target of court gossip and malicious intrigues. The king and queen’s sexual problems were common knowledge so rumours abounded that the Louis was impotent and his wife was frigid – or, worse, preferred the company of other men. This poisonous gossip led Antoinette to withdraw into her own inner circle. She spent large amounts of time at the Petit Trianon, a small château built for royal mistresses, rather than the main palace at Versailles. There she surrounded herself with favourites like Princess de Lamballe and the Polignac family, on whom she showered money and gifts. La Hameau de la Reine – the Queen’s Hamlet – as it looks today One of the ironies of the French Revolution is this little white dress became basically the uniform of French Revolutionary women,” Weber continues. “The same women who thought Marie Antoinette had been terrible for France and were clamoring to have her head cut off and clamoring to drink her blood were the same women who really liked the little white dress because it was simple, because it was kind of cheap.” 5. Her spending wasn’t a main cause of the French Revolution. The abolition of feudal privileges by the National Constituent Assembly on 4 August 1789 and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen ( La Déclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen), drafted by Lafayette with the help of Thomas Jefferson and adopted on 26 August, paved the way to a Constitutional Monarchy (4 September 1791 – 21 September 1792). [148] [149] Despite these dramatic changes, life at the court continued, while the situation in Paris was becoming critical because of bread shortages in September. On 5 October, a crowd from Paris descended upon Versailles and forced the royal family to move to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, where they lived under a form of house arrest under the watch of Lafayette's Garde Nationale, while the Comte de Provence and his wife were allowed to reside in the Petit Luxembourg, where they remained until they went into exile on 20 June 1791. [150]Lasky, Kathryn (2000). The Royal Diaries: Marie Antoinette, Princess of Versailles: Austria-France, 1769. New York: Scholastic. ISBN 978-0-439-07666-1. DIY skincare routines like this one were commonplace in 18th-century France, because people believed they would help ward off illness. While regular full-body bathing was not the norm, facial cleansing was done more often, because products could be made from simple, household ingredients (and pigeons, of course). 2. The cleaner and paler your skin, the better. Kates, Gary (1998). The French Revolution: Recent Debates and New Controversies 2nd ed. Routledge. pp. 201–218. ISBN 0-415-35833-7. Farr, Evelyn (2016). I Love You Madly: Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Secret Letters. Peter Owen Publishers. ISBN 978-0720618778.