Irresistibly flaky.

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Also the article of Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun. Cause one of my very best french friends studie like me french history to become a teacher and one of the biggest fans of Vigee-Lebrun had read to me, that she really admire her skin cause of the color, yes, but that she actually just did the job for her family. And that MA had a terrible forehead. To large and unfavourable.

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Thats why the gave her the advice to draw her with an hat on the one with the white muslin dress. It was maybe not right to forejudge at the beginning when she arrived France, but for that their were a lot of reasons in the french history. And for the king. I wish Louis XVI.

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And his mother wished for him too. Actually, pretty as the myth is, the best one can say is that she MAY have eaten kipfel the ancestor of the croissant in France. But, having discovered that the croissant is not mentioned as a bread or pastry until the middle of the nineteenth century, I kept digging and discovered that an Austrian did indeed bring the kipfel to Paris, but in August Zang was an artillery officer whose Boulangerie Viennoise became wildly popular, so that French imitators soon sprang up and the French name the kipfel for its crescent croissant shape.

He may in fact have tried to get his name taken off the bakery. The kipfel itself existed in Austria many centuries before the siege which is so often credited with prompting its invention. Agreed about historical accuracy in film, Eva! Your reaction was exactly the right one.

Glad to know I was right! And, Elena, what was most misleading was that the whole thing was supposed to be based on a work of non-fiction. I am afraid many people now picture Marie-Antoinette looking and acting like Kirsten Dunst…. Thank you so much, Kim!

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Here is the link:. What an interesting and enjoyable website you have! We just visited Versailles for the fourth time the other day. I enjoy it more each time I go, as I learn more and more about French history. Your site would make great reading for anyone considering a visit.


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I recently wrote my little bit about viennoiserie if anyone is interested in what other pastries are included in this category. Yes, Catherine, that is one of the many things that annoyed me about that film is all the pastries, when it is recorded that the Queen are sparingly. They even show her eating sweets while receiving Count Mercy. As if she would have done such a thing….. Click here to cancel reply.

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