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Much to Louis XIV's relief the French hairdresser Martin was able to save the reputation of the French court ... On 4 April 1671 the Marquise de Sevigne wrote to her daughter the Comtesse de Grignan that Madame Martin was...
- ↑ Louis Napolitan: Six Thousand Years of Hair Styling, Polygraphic Company of America, 1939
- ↑ Louis Napolitan: Six Thousand Years of Hair Styling, Polygraphic Company of America, 1939
- ↑ Gisèle d'. Assailly: Ages of Elegance: Five Thousand Years of Fashion and Frivolity, Hachette, 1968
- ↑ Wendy Cooper: Hair: sex, society, symbolism, Aldus, 1971
- ↑ Louis Napolitan: Six Thousand Years of Hair Styling, Polygraphic Company of America, 1939
- ↑ Mary Trasko: Daring Do's: A History of Extraordinary Hair, Random House Incorporated, 1994
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