Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… step of her vertiginous rise in social status from a bourgeois woman of artistic origins to an intimate of the queen and France’s elite. 2 In the early 1780s, French fashion continued to run towards novelty and elegance, but there was a … Her peregrinations took her around Europe, ending only some sixteen years later when she made her way back to France. From 1789 to 1805, throughout the long years of her exile, she crossed paths with dozens of British subjects. … In 1792, while in Turin, she learned of the September Massacres in the prisons. Her intention had been to return to France, but as the new wave of French émigrés began to surge through Italy, she turned eastward to Vienna, making her way …
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