Marie Antoinette's Dressmaker Built "Madame Deficit"
18th Century France

Marie Antoinette's Dressmaker Built "Madame Deficit"

A sixteen-year-old provincial nobody got so good at dressing a queen that her work helped send that queen to the guillotine.

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France18th CenturyFashionRoyal CourtRose BertinMarie AntoinetteVersaillesSocial InfluenceWomen in HistoryLuxury and Excess

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