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Emily Brand
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
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Paint & rouge *can* be an indicator, but it was also v. high society French (so fashionable if you could get away with it). Here the plucking of the rosebud & 'temptation' in the title are key clues – pleasure gardens in general & Bagnigge in particular were known for sex workers
Obviously it's a bit subjective but the way the women are just hanging about slightly apart, one gazing out as if in invitation, just screams courtesan rather than elegant companions talking a walk
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Emily Brand
@emilybrand.bsky.social
Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
3.9k followers1.7k following588 posts