| Title: | Fontange |
| Original Title: | Fontange |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 7 (1757), pp. 105–106 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Lucy Gay [University of Portsmouth] |
| Subject terms: |
Fashion
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| Citation (MLA): | "Fontange." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Lucy Gay. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2016. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.205>. Trans. of "Fontange," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 7. Paris, 1757. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Fontange." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Lucy Gay. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.205 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Fontange," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 7:105–106 (Paris, 1757). |
Fontange. There was in the seventeenth century, I would not say an assembly but an edifice of lace, hair, and ribbons in several layers which women wore on their heads. Styles such as the duchess, solitaire, cabbage, musketeer, crescent, firmament, tenth heaven, and the mouse were constructed on a wired base. Today a simple ribbon bow serves as ornament for the hair: it bears the name of she [1] who created the old fontange ; like a palatine necklace carries the name of the princess [2] who introduced its use into France.
Notes
1. Marie Angélique de Scorraille de Roussille, duchesse de Fontanges (1661-1681).
2. Élisabeth-Charlotte du Palatinat (1652-1722).