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  • Selz

Françoise and Georges Selz Endowed Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture

October 1, 2008
Lourdes Font (Fashion and Textile Studies, FIT)
'The Prestige of Consecrated Grace': The Louis XVI Revival Style in Fashion


 November 19, 2008
Kathryn Norberg (History, UCLA)
'Unwholesome Elegance': The Houses of Courtesans and Actresses in Late Eighteenth-Century Paris


February 18, 2009
Mary Schoeser (Independent Curator)
Revolution! Enlightenment, Exploration and Exquisite Emporia


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