Fashion in Paris; the various phases of feminine taste and aesthetics from 1797 to 1897 (1898)
Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931, Loyd, Mary Sophia Hely-Hutchinson, 1853-1936, Courboin, François, 1865-1926 · London, W. Heinemann · leaf 100
36 FASHION IN PARIS … a distant echo of the indelicate witticisms of certain eighteenth-centuryauthors. To sum it up, Mme. de Genlis entertainments, in spite of theirpretension to the open mind, were very dull, and limited in scope ;while, to quote the First Consuls own happy description,the lady of the house, when she…
Fashion · Costume
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