Marie Antoinette and European Hair Wigs
Marie Antoinette was a woman who cared about her hair. Every day, she meticulously powdered and arranged her European hair wigs so that they looked big and beautiful.
She was born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna on 2 November 1755. At the tender age of fourteen, she married Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France, and became Dauphine de France. And in 1774, her husband became king, and she became Queen of France and of Navarre. Marie-Thérèse Charlotte was the first of the royal couple’s four children.
Though they were originally charmed by her youth, beauty and elegance, her fair skin, and bright blue eyes, the French people eventually came to dislike Marie Antoinette, and viewed her as fickle, promiscuous, and sympathetic to France’s enemies.
At the height of the French Revolution, Marie Antoinette’s precious wig accessories and dresses were removed, and the royal family was imprisoned. Louis XVI was executed, and nine months later, Marie Antoinette was tried and convicted of treason. On 16 October 1793, her precious hair was cut off; bald and wearing only a simple white dress, she was driven through the streets of Paris in an open cart, and was publicly executed by the guillotine.
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