Marie Antoinette's Hairdresser Ran Her Escape Plan
18th Century France

Marie Antoinette's Hairdresser Ran Her Escape Plan

A Parisian wigmaker named Léonard Autié held more influence over the French court than most ministers in 1789—and then the world he'd built dissolved in a single afternoon.

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