1/4: Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution Hardcover – April 23, 2024 by Anne Higonnet (Author)
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https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Equality-Fashion-Styled-Revolution/dp/0393867951
Joséphine Bonaparte, future Empress of France; Térézia Tallien, the most beautiful woman in Europe; and Juliette Récamier, muse of intellectuals, had nothing left to lose. After surviving incarceration and forced incestuous marriage during the worst violence of the French Revolution of 1789, they dared sartorial revolt. Together, Joséphine and Térézia shed the underwear cages and massive, rigid garments that women had been obliged to wear for centuries. They slipped into light, mobile dresses, cropped their hair short, wrapped themselves in shawls, and championed the handbag. Juliette made the new style stand for individual liberty.
The erotic audacity of these fashion revolutionaries conquered Europe, starting with Napoleon. Everywhere a fashion magazine could reach, women imitated the news coming from Paris. It was the fastest and most total change in clothing history. Two centuries ahead of its time, it was rolled back after only a decade by misogynist rumors of obscene extravagance.
New evidence allows the real fashion revolution to be told. This is a story for our time: of a revolution that demanded universal human rights, of self-creation, of women empowering each other, and of transcendent glamor
120+ full color illustrations throughout
1783 SIEGE OF GRIBRALTAR
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:05.3 | This is CBS I on the world with John Bachelor. |
| 0:09.7 | Here's John Bachelor |
| 0:12.0 | It is July 30 of 1794 in Paris. |
| 0:15.9 | Emerging from an infamous prison La Force |
| 0:19.6 | is a young woman named Terexia. She emerges, people are watching and she's embraced by a man |
| 0:26.3 | named Talia on one of the leading lights of the revolution. This moment becomes a significant event in the world of fashion invented again during the French |
| 0:38.8 | Revolution. |
| 0:39.8 | I learned from a new book. |
| 0:42.0 | Anne Higginay is the author, Professor of Art History at Barnard College. |
| 0:46.3 | The book is Liberty Equality Fashion, |
| 0:49.1 | the Women Who Stiled the French Revolution. |
| 0:51.8 | Professor, congratulations and a very good evening to you. |
| 0:55.0 | At that moment, who is Tresia to the people swooning to watch her embrace by Talien? |
| 1:02.0 | And what is Taliaan at that moment that he is at |
| 1:07.0 | the prison as she emerges good evening to you hello well Terresia was already famously the most beautiful woman in Europe. |
| 1:20.0 | People compared her without fail to a goddess. |
| 1:25.7 | She was imprisoned during the terror because Robespierre himself felt that she had too much erotic power over someone who he thought |
| 1:41.0 | was a loyal follower of his Tagnan. But then as the terror escalated, Tagnan turned against |
| 1:50.7 | Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety, but hesitated until his imprisoned |
| 1:58.3 | lover sent him a message saying, I am about to be deatined so if you don't overthrow Robespierre I will die |
| 2:08.9 | which explains the timing of the overthrow of the terror, |
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