Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 236
e gambling-table toeat, but seized an egg and bent over for salt, settingher commode into a candle-flame. The Archbishopof Rheims, a fellow-gambler, snatched off the blaz-ing head-dress, and threw it on the ground, revealingto all the hoary, bare head of the old woman, who,in her anger, not knowing… … for a long time. Oh ! what a picture of Frenchlife. I have never seen a portrait in an American familywhere the subject wore a commode or a fontange,nor have I ever found a refer-ence to this head-dress in letterswritten to or by persons livingin America at the time it wasworn. This is not strange,…
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