A bit after midnight, before Louis XVI went to sleep for the last time, his valet Cléry prepared the king for bed as usual. Cléry noted: "As I was about to roll his hair, he said to me, 'It is not worth while.'"
Then he slept, having told Cléry to wake him at 5 o'clock.
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Edit after Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Karl Friedrich Thiele and Ludwig Wilhelm Wittich (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
(Ed. Lic.: CC BY-NC 3.0)
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Robe Paree made for me by Madame Jejette
Inspired by this dress made for Marie Antoinette by Rose Bertin
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Open Mass at Frauenkirche, Dresden
Photo taken by me
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1612 Bartolomé González y Serrano - Philipp IV of Spain with his sister Infanta Anna
(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)
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Catalina Micaela of Spain, Duchess of Savoy, attributed to Sofonisba Anguissola.
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Semperoper, Dresden
Photo taken by me last weekend before a performance of The Magic Flute
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Robe Paree in progress made by Madame Jejette for me
Inspired by this dress made for Marie Antoinette
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Paleis op de Dam
Photo by Me
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"I dye my hair a darker shade of brown, because you like your women Spanish, dark, strong and proud"
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Villa Balbiano, Ossuccio, Lake Como
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Venus Honored by the Nymphs by Jan Muller (1591)
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Cream Silk Robe à la Française, ca. 1770, French.
MFA Boston.
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Photo by Bruno Dayan
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
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Spiral staircase seen from the northern tribune of the Royal Chapel in Versailles. Photo - @fhphoto
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