But in the case of the French Revolution ... went out of fashion, France’s insurrectionist artists adopted a narrative Neoclassicism as their predominant mode, drawing on ancient Greek and ...

Rose was no doubt the one who figured out the solution to their design ... the French Revolution was “Liberty, equality, fraternity.” It could also have been “Liberty, equality, fashion.” ...

The ninth of November, 1799—the 18th of Brumaire in the calendar of the French Revolution—is often remembered as the day the Revolution ended. Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror of Italy and ...

“Liberty Equality Fashion” explores radical shifts in fashion that embodied the ideas of the French Revolution and the women who led the charge. By Dina Gachman Most days, Anne Higonnet is ...

“Fashion in the French Revolution” (which doesn’t feature in Higonnet’s source notes). Many plates were online long before the National Library of France digitized its complete collection ...

Michelet understood the French Revolution as a collective triumph; he describes it as the destruction of a world built up by centuries of oppression, and the creation of a new order, for the ...

Mathematician and author, the Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was an aristocrat who nevertheless embraced the early stage of the French Revolution. Even as the Jacobins hunted him down during the ...

"[Louis XIV's] idea was to have a look of the French court — that they were ... "Everyone just wants to be comfortable." And so a fashion revolution was born: Down with the corsets and cages!

Weber is a professor of French and Comparative Literature at Barnard, and the author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution. "My dream wardrobe has always been what ...

More than a century later, it became the unlikely venue for a key moment of the French Revolution ... finish the work using original preparatory drawings by Jacques-Louis David in 1791.