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CHAPTER XIT.

LOUIS XVI. TO TIIE EMPIRE.

“ Proud Versailles ! thy glory falls.”

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In the reign of Louis XVI. society, tired out with ceremony andthe stately manners of the old court, at last began to emancipateitself. Marie-Antoinette (Fig. 7G) first gave the signal. Rid

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Marie-Antoinette. From a picture by Mmlamc Le Brun. Mus. Nut. Versailles.

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herself of the preachings of “ Madame fitiquette ” she could not onstate occasions, so she did her best to amuse herself in private.The finest Indian muslin 1 now supplanted the heavy points of

1 Madame du Barry, in her Memoirs, mentions the purchase of Indian muslinso fine that the piece did not weigh la oz., although sufficient to nmlce four dresses.