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2. Pouf - Wikipedia

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   The pouf or pouffe also "toque" (literally a thick cushion) is a hairstyle and a hairstyling support deriving from 18th-century France. It was made popular by the Queen of France , Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), when she wore it in June 1775 at the coronation of her husband Louis XVI , triggering a wave of French noblewomen to wear their hair ...

3. Christian Lacroix - Wikipedia

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   Along with this, he is also known for his 'le pouf' dress (featuring the ball skirt). Christian Lacroix has designed many dresses for Hollywood stars; among them, he was responsible for designing Christina Aguilera 's wedding dress and in the 1990s was famed as being a favourite designer of Edina Monsoon in the UK sitcom Absolutely Fabulous ...

4. Empfindsamkeit (music) - Wikipedia

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   Empfindsamkeit (English: sentimental style) or Empfindsamer Stil is a style of musical composition and poetry developed in 18th-century Germany, intended to express "true and natural" feelings, and featuring sudden contrasts of mood.

5. Hobble skirt - Wikipedia

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   Some other skirt styles of the time also had very narrow hems, particularly the knee-length puffball/pouf skirts shown by Pierre Cardin, [16] Yves Saint Laurent, and others from 1957 to 1960. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] A few of Saint Laurent's 1959 skirts were so narrow at the hem that some fashion writers revived the word "hobble" to refer to them.

6. Hugues Merle - Wikipedia

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   Hugues Merle was born in 1822 in La Sône. [1] He studied painting with Léon Cogniet.Merle started exhibiting at the Salon (Paris) in 1847. He received second class prizes in 1861 and 1863. [2]

7. For Scent-imental Reasons - Wikipedia

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   A Parisian perfume shop owner is horrified to find a skunk, Pepé Le Pew, sampling his fragrances. The man calls upon a gendarme for assistance. Unhelpfully, the officer also recoils from Pepé's scent and flees the scene. A black-and-white stray cat winds around the shop owner’s legs, trying to comfort him.

8. Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!! - Wikipedia

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   Piff! Paff!! Pouf!!! is a musical in two acts with music by Jean Schwartz, lyrics by William Jerome, and a book by Stanislaus Stange. [1] It is considered the best musical created by the writing team of Schwartz and Jerome. [2] A hit with audiences, it was the longest running musical of the 1903-1904 Broadway season.

9. Saying Grace (Chardin) - Wikipedia

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   Saying Grace or The Prayer Before a Meal (French: Le Bénédicité) is the title of several paintings by French artist Jean Simeon Chardin, one of which was given as a gift to Louis XV. The subject of the painting, a middle-class French family saying grace before a meal, is one of everyday bourgeois tranquillity – Chardin's area of interest ...