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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: During her teenage years, Marie Antoinette learned the political power of fashion and appearances.
Chapter 3: Circumstances made it hard for Marie Antoinette to fulfill the many expectations of France’s royal court.
Chapter 4: Marie Antoinette defied royal strictures and emerged as a fashion icon.
Chapter 5: France’s precarious economy and the Flour Wars would dramatically alter the public’s view of Marie Antoinette.
Chapter 6: As queen, she kept making rebellious fashion statements, and the public criticisms persisted as well.
Chapter 7: Opposition to the queen’s fashions and the broader royal order peaked with onset of the French Revolution.
Description
Queen of Fashion (2006) reveals the untold ways in which Marie Antoinette, with her iconoclastic sense of fashion and her rebellious behavior, challenged the status quo of the eighteenth-century French court. Her daring originality was a way for her to share her voice and personality, and her story tells us a great deal about the revolutionary politics that can be found in the history of both fashion and France.
Who Should Listen
- Fashionistas wanting to know more about the link between power and clothing
- Francophiles obsessed with Marie Antoinette
- History students interested in the French Revolution