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to give her head the proper aspect the
moment she arrived.
The arrival was 10 have taken place after
nightfall. and she and the King were to
have dined and then received the officers,
many OF whom had been their courters AT
Versailles. So much Importance was at
tached in the eighteenth century TO head
dressing that Lafayette on the morning or
Oct. Z. l7S9 could not go TO the palace OF
Versailles In time to prevent the mobs
breaking into IL until his valet had ar
rived from Paris and dressed the generals
wig. He would have soon rushed to the
rescue of royalty in his shirt as with I'M
wigged head. Marie AntOinette shared in
the feeling of her time on the subject of
capillary arrangements, which were the
privilege of persons of high quality.
The two authors sacrificed TO the pre-
conceived ideas of the public in giving
Drouet a more important part than he de-
served in the arrest OF the royal family
and Leonard a less prominent. Still, he IS
far enough forward to throw some light
on the ideas of the time in which he lived
in regard to hairdressing and on those of
the Queen in regard to her own head or
hair, which in the following year was
doomed to fall beneath the shears OF the
public executioner
For sixteen years before the revolution
Leonard had the special privilege of dress
ing the Queens head. She took fancy to
his style from seeing some actress made
up by him in the theater. He refused TO
accept the offer of coiffeur in ordinary
unless he could keep his private business.
This could not nave been allowed in any
former reign, when convention much more
than taste and fancy ruled those who fur
niShed regal wardrobes.
1t was rightly thought that if the ward
robe workers had private customers they
could not escape from the temptation of
revealing all the secrets of the royal toilet
to tattierS about the court Leonard, as
Queens hairdresser, became the man of
the day and the autocrat of the toilets of
aristocratic ladies. They paid him eXtrava-
giant fees to dress their headS-feeS that in
busy times ran UP to 800 "A head.
When Leonard dressed a noble lady's
head she did not set il on pillow for a
week, but slept sitting up in bed with her
back propped with holsters so arranged as
not TO give way. Leonard saw probably
the defects of Marie Antoinette's face and
Uranium to which l have called attention,
and remedied them by his method of puff
wire forms over which he combed it; he hit
on complex and striking. effects and gave
them names smacking of actuality-
COIFFURES WERE CURIOUS.
Thus on the day Dr. MacMahon attended
to inoculate the princess royal, Leonard
devised a couture linoculation. The
Queen went one morning TO visit the
Kitchen Garden at Versailles. The week
after her hairdresser. in honor Of that
event, came with collection of artificial
carrots, turnips and radishes to compose a
headdress a la potager Sometimes he saw
a handkerchief lying near that took his
fancy, and made use of it to compose a
couture a la bayadere. He professed on
all occasions to study the figure, cast OF
countenance, complexion and rank of the
woman who placed herself In his hands.
His inventive or assimiative audacity
knew no bounds. One day the mistress of
the wardrobe reproached him with steril-
ity In ideas. He saw richly trimmed lawn
garment lying near-in short, chemise
for the princess royal. which this lady
(the Duchess de Luynes) had submitted
for inspection. the princess having out
grown all her linen and needing a fresh
supply. The coiffeur took ii up by the
sleeves, held ii before the light and then,
giving ii a twist, laid it on the august
head and twisted the auburn hair Of Nine.
de Luynes around IT.
What are you doing?" she cried.
"Inventing la caiffure de la folie mater
nelle," answered Leonard.
Don't you hide the sleeves?"
mot at ALL the nature of the garment
must be shown"
The chemise OF a twelve-year-old princess
remained the fashion for nearly a whole
season. The whole court thought the idea
and its application was charming.
Leonard was sharp in business and a