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    sack-back gown or robe à la française was a women's fashion of 18th century Europe. At the beginning of the century, the sack-back gown was a very informal...
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    Mantua (clothing) (category Robes and cloaks)
    sack-back, Robe à la Française, or French gown, this garment was supported by panniers which expanded in width in the 1740s and 1750s, and fronted by a decorative...
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    between ankle-length and floor-sweeping. Between 1740 and 1770, the robe à la française was very popular with upper-class women. In France, the Empire style...
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    to more relaxed fashions. The robe à la française or sack-back gown had a tight bodice with a low-cut square neckline, a decorated [stomacher], wide panniers...
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    this was a short version of the sack-back gown (also known as the robe à la française) which appeared in the 1780s. Greatcoat dress—Despite the name, this...
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    sack-back gown or Robe à la Française was a women's fashion of the 18th century] my light grey Lutestring [lutestring or lustring – fabric, a fine glossy silk]...
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    Rococo gown was introduced, robe à la Française, a gown with a tight bodice that had a low cut neckline, usually with a large ribbon bows down the centre...
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    the open bodice with a separate stomacher was replaced by a bodice with edges that met center front. The robe à la française or sack-back gown, with...
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    snugly; full shirt sleeves; original Macaroni Women: robe à la française or sack-back gown; robe à l'anglaise or close-bodied gown; the "Brunswick"; tall...
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    Rousseau, The Repast of the Lion, c. 1907 Pablo Picasso, The Oil Mill (Moulin à huile), 1909 Wassily Kandinsky, Improvisation 27, Garden of Love II, 1912...
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    played for her nephew Louis XV at the Louvre. Wearing a splendidly embroidered robe à la Française, the Princess sat next to the infant king. As with her...
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  • Prêt-à-Porter des Couturiers et des Créateurs de Mode and the Chambre Syndicale de la Mode Masculine. Creation on the same day of the Fédération Française...
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    class and considered a fashionable garment. The casaquin was regarded as a variation of the popular fashionable gown, robe à la française which was an informal...
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  • century portraits by Anthony van Dyck, and the Watteau pleats of the robe á la française are called after their appearance in the portraits of Antoine Watteau...
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    Académie Française are: France portal Academy of sciences Conseil international de la langue française Former prizes awarded by the Académie française French...
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  • Le Petit Robert de la Langue Française (IPA: [ p(ə)ti ʁɔbɛʁla lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz]), known as just Petit Robert, is a popular single-volume French dictionary...
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    Robert Wright (judge, died 1689) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    of mobbs, and all her clothes apart from her black Robe à la Française, her light grey lutestring – a fine, glossy silk – and her stitched underpetticoats...
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    Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815 (December 1989 – April 1990) 1990–1991: Théâtre de la Mode – Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture (December 1990 – April...
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    Paris. In October she released her first chanson française album, titled À peu près; it was described as a mixture of pop and folk by Salome Rouzerol-Douglas...
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    "Cristina Cordula: son mariage à Capri". Paris Match (in French). 7 June 2017. "Cristina Cordula reçoit la nationalité française". Le Parisien (in French)...
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    Garçon à la Pipe (English: Boy with a Pipe) is an oil on canvas painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in 1905 when Picasso was 24 years old, during...
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    Modern France French nobility Bernard Barbiche, Les institutions de la monarchie française à l'époque moderne, XVIe - XVIIIe siècle, Paris : PUF, 1999, 2nd...
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    Imaginales [fr], 2015, pour La voie des oracles. Prix Actusf de l'Uchronie, 2016, for La Voie des oracles, tome 3. Prix Imaginales, 2016, for Une robe couleur d’océan...
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    The French nobility (French: la noblesse française) was an aristocratic social class in France from the Middle Ages until its abolition on 23 June 1790...
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    L'Économie française au Moyen Âge, p. 97. Henriette Parienté and Geneviève de Ternant, Histoire de la cuisine française, Éditions de La Martinière, coll...
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    deux pamphlets anonymes parus à Lyon sous la Restauration, 1903, p. 13 Robert Sabatier, Histoire de la poésie française - Poésie du XIXe siècle, 1977...
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  • Cambridge 2017, translated by C. Jon Delogu Was ist das? Chroniques d'une Française à Berlin, Les Arènes, Paris 2017 L’école des filles, Les Arènes, Paris...
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    additional César Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Genie Award for Black Robe (1991). The French newspaper Le Figaro named him "the Mozart of cinema."...
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    Several of his songs, such as "L'encre de tes yeux", "Je l'aime à mourir", "Petite Marie", "La Dame de Haute-Savoie", "Encore et encore", "Il faudra leur dire"...
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    Garneau, 1945. La "Dame française" du duc de Kent : récits historiques canadiens, Québec, Éd. Garneau, 1948. Le roman d'un roman. Louis Hémon à Péribonka,...
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