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Article: The original style queen.(Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution)(Book review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
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- May 1, 2007
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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
By Caroline Weber
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2006, 412 pp., $27.50, hardcover
The French see Marie Antoinette in extreme terms: she is either revered or reviled. Either way, she is larger than life, as are the fashions associated with her name. However, as a young girl, though surrounded by and with access to a garish abundance of wealth, Marie Antoinette was treated as no more than a pawn in a high-stakes geopolitical alliance. Her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, married her off in 1770, when she was fourteen, to the French Dauphin Louis August. Her freedom was ...