The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . of Hair-dressingf for French-women. Another hair-dresser and rival of Legros, one Leonard,conceived the idea of substituting for the cap generally worn piecesof gauze and other light material artistically folded in the hair, and hesucceeded in placing fourteen ells of gauze in a single was the fashionable hair-dresser when the young Dauphiness setthe seal to his rejoutation by patronizing him. Marie-Antoinette hada regular hair-dresser called Larseueur, who was the reverse of clever,and though so goo
The XVIIIth century; its institutions, customs, and costumes France, 1700-1789 . of Hair-dressingf for French-women. Another hair-dresser and rival of Legros, one Leonard,conceived the idea of substituting for the cap generally worn piecesof gauze and other light material artistically folded in the hair, and hesucceeded in placing fourteen ells of gauze in a single was the fashionable hair-dresser when the young Dauphiness setthe seal to his rejoutation by patronizing him. Marie-Antoinette hada regular hair-dresser called Larseueur, who was the reverse of clever,and though so good-natured that, rather than dismiss him, she allowedhim to do her hair regularl), he had no sooner completed his work, DRESS AND FASHIONS. 475 than Leonard came to undo all he had done, and build up a newedifice. Leonard was the inventor of the wonderful modes of wearing thehair which were in vogue for more than ten years : the coiffure a ladauphine, in which the hair was gathered up and rolled into curlswhich fell on to the neck ; the coiffure a la monte ait del, remarkable. Fig. 302.—Shop of a b;irbcr and wig-maker ; aflcr Cochin. for its extreme height ; the full-dress coiffure, called loge dopdra(1772), which made a ladies face seventy-two inches high from thechin to the top of the hair, which was divided into several zones,each one arranged in a different way, but invariably completed withthree large feathers attached on the left temple, with a bow of rosecoloured ribbon and a large ruby ; the coiffure a la queasco (i 774). i^which the three feathers referred to above were placed at the back ofthe head; the/^?//coiffure, which was a heterogeneous compositionof feathers, jewellery, ribbons, and pins. Into this wonderful coiffureentered butterflies, birds, painted cupids, branches of trees, fruits, andeven vegetables. In the month of April, the Duchesse de Chartres, 476 THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. daughter of the Due de Penthievre, appeared at the opera with herhair dressed in
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