Parsons, Frank Alvah, 1868-1930 · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 444
adies ofhis court. To Madame la Marechale he once said:Your cloak is superb; I have seen it a good manytimes. She was duly flattered, we are told, but tookthe hint. In fact, brief as it was, the court of Napoleonwas the most gorgeously sumptuous and profligatelyextravagant of any of the long list… … A QUAINT AND FASCINATING DIRECTOIRE CREATION OF THE LASTDAYS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, WITH SOME SUGGESTIONSIN DETAILS THAT PERSISTED THROUGH THE EMPIRE.
Clothing and dress
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