Note 51 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Further particulars of them will be found in the “Memoirs of the Duchess d’Abrantes” (Madame Junot). The fashions of the years which immediately preceded the Revolution appear to have been almost as funny. I have somewhere seen a French semi-caricature depicting fashionables of the Palais Royal in 1786, and the people who had their heads cut off in ’93 were almost as queer as the dandies of the Directory and the Consulate.