Wilton, Mary Margaret Stanley Egerton: The Book of costume or, Annals of fashion: from the earliest period to the present time (London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1847)

THE TOILETTE IN FRANCE.

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THE TOILETTE IN FRANCE.

CHAPTER XIX.


We now ar-
j rive at the reign
of Louis XIV.,
an epoch in
the annals of
fashion cele-
brated for the
variety of its
coiffures, and
alsoforthemag-
nificence and
splendour of its habiliments.
Madame de Sevigne, in a letter
to her daughter, says, speaking
of the head-dress then much
the fashion, of which we give

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