Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution

by Anne Higonnet

Book Overview

Jos phine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; T r zia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette R camier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Jos phine and T r zia shed the underwear cages and massive, rigid garments that women had been obliged to wear for centuries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393867951
• ISBN13: 9780393867954
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.1"