The mysterious conversations. Incroyable with bicorne hat.

France Directory, Incroyable, Merveilleuse, bicorne hat,
French revolution costumes. The mysterious conversations.

The mysterious conversations c. 1790.

La conversation mystérieuse. Costume Directoire. Incroyable with bicorne hat and Merveilleuse.

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 Louis XIV. , Louis XV. , Louis XVI., Baroque, Rococo, Directoire, French Revolution, Regency, Empire, Restoration or Romanticism fashion era

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  1. The French Fashion History.
  2. Reign of Louis XIV. 1643 to 1715
  3. The Reign of Louis XV. 1715 to 1774.
  4. Reign of Louis XVI. 1780 to 1789.
  5. The French Republic 1789 to 1802.
  6. Timeline of the French Revolution 1789 – 1799.
  7. Reign of Napoleon I. 1804 to 1814. France empire.
  8. Reigns of Louis XVIII. and Charles X. 1815 to 1830. Restoration,  Romanticism
  9. Fashion in the Reign of Philippe. 1830 to 1848. Victorian era. Romanticism fashion.
  10. The Second Republic. 1848 -1851. Victorian era. “Second Rococo”.
  11. The use of the Corset in the reign of Louis XVI.
  12. Ladies hat styles from 1776-1790 by Rose Bertin.
  13. Fashion under the  French revolution 1789 to 1802.
  14. Paris fashion 1793 to 1795. French revolution.
  15. The Execution of the King Louis XVI.
  16. The Execution of Marie-Antoinette.
  17. The Incroyables and Muscadins. The French directory dandies.
  18. Les Incroyables et Merveilleuses. “The Directoire Style” between 1795–1804.
  19. Nymphs and Merveilleuses. By Octave Uzanne.
  20. Fashion in Paris after the Revolution. By Octave Uzanne. 1796-1800.
  21. Portraits by people during the French Revolution
  22. The Gallery of Fashion. by Nikolaus von Heideloff, London.
  23. Comparison of the French and English modes. 1808 to 1815
  24. The Salon of Madame Récamier during the French Revolution.
  25. The Salons of Paris before the French Revolution.
  26. Caraco a´la francaise in 1786.
  27. The Evolution of Modern Feminine Fashion 1786.
  28. Fashion in Paris and London, 1780 to 1788.
  29. Historic hairstyles from Ancient times to the Empire.
Note:  The Poissards. Louis XVI receives parisian women in Versailles.

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