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“. . . from her earliest days at Versailles, Marie Antoinette staged a revolt against entrenched court etiquette by turning her clothes and other accoutrements into defiant expressions of autonomy and prestige . . . it is my belief that she identified fashion as a key weapon in her struggle for personal prestige, authority, and sometimes mere survival.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Generally, if Marie Antoinette had worn a gown once, she did not wear it again.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Even when faced with unspeakable loss, Marie Antoinette tackled her difficulties as she always had - by choosing costumes that emphasized her resilience of spirit.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“. . . historians rarely emphasize the tremendous importance that [Marie Antoinette's] public attached to what she was wearing at each step along the way.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“. . . Marie Antoinette established herself as a force to be reckoned with - as a queen who commanded as much attention as the most dazzling king or mistress, and whose imposing stature had nothing to do with her maternal prospects.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“. . . Marie Antoinette's wardrobe was the stuff of dreams, and the space of nightmares.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“[Marie Antoinette] went to great lengths to underscore the notion that the realm of Trianon was ruled by her and her alone.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Even as she faced execution, Marie Antoinette's will to control her image, to manage it through her clothing, had not left her.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

“Unlike a Eugenie or a Jackie, but quite like her ancestor the Sun King, Marie Antoinette helped invent fashion as a high-stakes political game - one that she played in dead earnest, and with deadly results. A winner-take-all affair, her program of singular sartorial defiance implicated not just her autonomy and her prestige, but her crown and, eventually, her life.”

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Book:Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

Source: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution