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 46
truffles and anchovypates, in mighty mouthfuls, pouring downwine and liqueurs ; eating, in fact, as onepamphleteer put it, for every fundholder,and soldier, and clerk and employe in theRepublic. And, indeed, these half-nakednymphs were bound to provide themselvesa solid framework, to resist the… … 1799 The Nymph and the Merveilleuse—those types of a period ofdeep corruption and open libertinage, when early youth claimed all thefreedom of maturer years, and the sacrement de Vadultere was universallyproclaimed—the Nymph and the Merveilleuse, I say, were the accepteddeities, worshipped on every…
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