{"id":2086,"date":"2019-04-12T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2026-07-15T13:47:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T17:47:35","slug":"the-battle-of-versailles-the-night-american-fashion-stumbled-into-the-spotlight-and-made-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kylehemingway.com\/ephemera\/the-battle-of-versailles-the-night-american-fashion-stumbled-into-the-spotlight-and-made-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Versailles: The Night American Fashion Stumbled into the Spotlight and Made History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe evening of Wednesday, November 28, 1973, as guests began arriving at Versailles, the palace glowed under a full moon and through a scrim of light snow\u2014the first dusting of the season. Red uniformed, saber-wielding gendarmes flanked the gilded palace gates, along with some four hundred footmen in eighteenth-century white powdered wigs and livery. Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne de Rothschild, dressed in green, ostrich-trimmed gown by Yves Saint Laurent and with solitary diamonds pinned in her thick hair greeted guests; brushing kisses on the cheeks of the French and offering handshakes to the Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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