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Marie-Antoinette, Queen of Fashion
March 10, 2007
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Caroline Weber tells the story of how Marie-Antoinette's clothing choices helped make and unmake her reputation, altering the very course of French history. Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution, presents a new vision of this ever-fascinating French queen. Like Princess Diana and Jacqueline Onassis, Marie-Antoinette was an icon of style, a muse of fashion, a woman who used clothing to command attention.

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Author: Caroline Weber
Publisher: Picador (2007)
Binding: Paperback, 432 pages
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