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Name: Bedtime Biography: Queen of Fashion
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Author: Caroline Weber

Caroline Weber

What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

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Bedtime Biography: Queen of Fashion by Caroline Weber is a fascinating account of how fashion and politics intertwined in the court of Louis XVI and how Marie Antoinette became a style icon and a target for ridicule and criticism.

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How much do you know about Marie Antoinette? You might know that she was a queen of France, famously uninterested in the plight of her people. A figure with immeasurable wealth and power who sat at the top table of an unjust and deeply divided society. And you probably know that it cost her. She died at the hands of revolutionary forces – a victim of the social unrest she’d helped cause.

But there is far more to Marie Antoinette than this old story. In this bedtime biography, we’ll try to understand this fascinating Queen of France through another facet: her style.

What do royal hairdos and haute couture have to do with one of the most tumultuous periods in history? Quite a bit! So make yourself comfortable, relax, and let’s hear the story of Marie Antoinette, Queen of Fashion.

Chapter 1

Marie Antoinette was born on November 2, 1755, in Vienna – the thriving capital of the sprawling Habsburg Empire. The Empire was massive. On a modern-day map, it would stretch all the way from Italy to Ukraine. Millions of people lived within its borders, and they spoke a variety of languages from German to Ukrainian, Czech to Polish.

Marie Antoinette's parents ruled this massive empire. Her mother was Empress Maria Theresa, and her father was Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. Marie Antoinette was the Emperor's youngest daughter. This made her an Archduchess of Austria. It was a very noble position and came with its fair share of power, prestige, and pomp.

Chapter 2

Once she had arrived at Versailles, Marie Antoinette had to adjust to this strange new way of life. Her every action was carefully planned, controlled and watched over.

Special attendants helped her with every bit of her day. Attendants dressed her in the morning. Attendants served her each meal. There were even attendants for removing her cloak when she used the toilet. These attendants were also high-ranking nobility, and they’d been trained to see their role as a privilege.

Chapter 3

As Marie Antoinette settled into her new role as queen, France continued to struggle. Then, in 1775, the already precarious French economy suffered another destabilizing blow.

Decades of mismanagement and a run of unusually bad weather caused the nation’s crops to fail. People soon grew hungry and scared.

The End

You’ve reached the end of this Bedtime Biography. Thank you for listening. Why not pause listening now so you can stay in a relaxed state? And if you’re off to bed now, I wish you a good night’s sleep.

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Narrated by Marston York

Music by Federico Coderoni

Queen of Fashion (2006) unveils the untold ways in which Marie Antoinette, with her iconoclastic sense of fashion and rebellious nature, challenged the status quo of 18th century French court. Expressing herself through daring originality, her story reveals a great deal about the revolutionary politics that make up the history of both fashion and France.

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Über den Autor

Caroline Weber is a specialist on eighteenth-century French culture. Before she became an associate professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University’s Barnard College, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, Bookforum, the Washington Post and the New York Times.

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