Ariane James-Sarazin and Régis Lapasin,Gazette des atours de Marie-Antoinette: Garde-robe des atours de la reine: Gazette pour l'année 1782. Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux for the Archives Nationales, 2006. 89 pp., 85 color pls., gloss., bibliog. € 30.

2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 225-226
Author(s):  
Michele Majer
Keyword(s):  
Marie Antoinette

‘Colonial livery’ and the chemise à la reine, 1779–1784

Costume ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Ashelford
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
French West Indies ◽  
Cotton Industry ◽  
Saint Domingue ◽  
Marie Antoinette ◽  
White Elite

When Jane Austen wrote in January 1801 that ‘Mrs Powlett was at once expensively and nakedly dressed’, the fashion for muslin dresses had existed for some eighteen years. This article examines the crucial period between 1779 and 1784 when the muslin garment, which became known as the chemise à la reine, was developed and refined. Originating in the French West Indies, the gaulle was the ‘colonial livery’ worn by the wives of the white elite, the ‘grands blancs’, and first appeared as a costume in a ballet performed in Paris in 1779. The version worn by Queen Marie Antoinette in Vigée Le Brun's controversial portrait of 1783 provoked, according to the Baron de Frénilly, ‘a revolution in dress’ which eventually destabilized society. The article focuses on the role played by Saint-Domingue, France's most valuable overseas possession, in the transference of the gaulle from colonial to metropolitan fashion, and how the colony became one of the major providers of unprocessed cotton to the French cotton industry.

Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Découvrons les sons 1. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Découvrons les sons 2. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Découvrons les sons 3. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Des animaux magiques. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, Toronto 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Nathalie et son canari. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Le requin de Propreville. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Le bal des legumes. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. La decouverte de Kinouk. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Joyeux Noel, Rodolphe! Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Le marche de Piiques. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979; Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Le cheval de Pierre de Lune. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman 1979Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Découvrons les sons 1. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 46. $2.25.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Découvrons les sons 2. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 46. $2.25.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Découvrons les sons 3. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 62. $2.25.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Des animaux magiques. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, Toronto 1979. Pp. 14.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Nathalie et son canari. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 14.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Le requin de Propreville. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 14.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Le bal des legumes. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 14.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. La decouverte de Kinouk. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 14.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Joyeux Noel, Rodolphe! Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 14.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Le marche de Piiques. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1979. Pp. 14.Courtel, Claudine and Marie-Antoinette Mantione. Le cheval de Pierre de Lune. Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman 1979. Pp. 14. Set of 8 preceding titles, $6.95.

1980 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 296-297
Author(s):  
Gilberte Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Marie Antoinette

The Gallic Singularity and the Royal Mistress

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-66
Author(s):  
Christine Adams
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Political Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Marie Antoinette ◽  
Louis Xvi ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Political Realm

The relationship of the French king and royal mistress, complementary but unequal, embodied the Gallic singularity; the royal mistress exercised a civilizing manner and the soft power of women on the king’s behalf. However, both her contemporaries and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians were uncomfortable with the mistress’s political power. Furthermore, paradoxical attitudes about French womanhood have led to analyses of her role that are often contradictory. Royal mistresses have simultaneously been celebrated for their civilizing effect in the realm of culture, chided for their frivolous expenditures on clothing and jewelry, and excoriated for their dangerous meddling in politics. Their increasing visibility in the political realm by the eighteenth century led many to blame Louis XV’s mistresses—along with Queen Marie-Antoinette, who exercised a similar influence over her husband, Louis XVI—for the degradation and eventual fall of the monarchy. This article reexamines the historiography of the royal mistress.

MARIE ANTOINETTE

1924 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-17
Author(s):  
B. MADAME VIGÉE LEBRUN ◽  
W. R. V.
Keyword(s):  
Marie Antoinette

THE MUSICAL CLOCK OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE

1932 ◽  
Vol XVIII (3) ◽  
pp. 411-422
Author(s):  
JULIEN TIERSOT
Keyword(s):  
Marie Antoinette
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