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Hilary Mantel: Marie-Antoinette, 30 September 1999
The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie-Antoinette
by Chantal Thomas, translated by Julie Rose.
Zone, 255 pp., £17.95, June 1999,0 942299 39 6 Show More
by Chantal Thomas, translated by Julie Rose.
Zone, 255 pp., £17.95, June 1999,
“... prevent them from treading on each others’ trains. Rouge, also, had a peculiar function as caste-mark. It was applied with a heavy hand and in a circular pattern. It was worn most lavishly on the day of a woman’s debut, when she was obliged to simulate the flush of the contrived orgasm bestowed by royal favour. For outsiders, the Court ladies were targets ... ”