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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 92

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ence. She loved to wander there with her female friends, amidst her kiosks and sheepfolds and cottages, and round the little lakes enlivened by sailing swans, both black and white. In that unpretentious dwelling, from which all show was banished, she lived the life her heart loved best, far from… … retreat, as to an exiles dungeon. l802 Mme. de Staels salon, before she was drivenout of Paris by the command of Bonaparte—who showed scant favour to his foremost femi-nine admirer—was really a sort of intellectual exchange, a drawing-room devoted to conversation. Many of its characteristic traits…

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