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 183
nthe common people, who crowded to admire and applaud them, wereno longer heard. Amidst all the gay doings and many entertainments which enlivenedthe reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X.- there sounded a note,struck by the fair sex, of melancholy, of lost illusions, of sadness whichmade all… … 84 FASHION IN PARIS the unhappy victims of social convention. Every woman seemed topine for a life of country retirement, solitary, save for one lovedcompanion, in a desert, which, under her love and tenderness, was toblossom like the rose. They all declared themselves martyrs to theirworldly…
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