Marie Antoinette was heavily disliked by many of the French people, who believed that her fondness for expensive fashion ... but the French Revolution was lead by the bourgeoisie from the start.

(Think of the Russian Revolution ... Generation: French Drawings (1770-1815) from the Fabre Museum illustrates how, as the pastel frivolity of the Rococo movement went out of fashion, France ...

Most people know of 1789, when the starving peasants and the ambitious bourgeoisie in France ... of fromage when it comes to The Glorious French Revolution, no hints of romance or outbreaks ...

A memory came to mind when I read that Pierre Cardin, the legendary French fashion designer and global ... about to open a Maxim’s restaurant, a bourgeois first for Communist China.