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Power & Institutions

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This section examines the structures that shape civilisation — Maisons, cultural institutions, national symbols and leaders whose discipline constructed lasting authority. Influence here is studied not as personality, but as architecture.

Letter I
Marie Antoinette: The Language of Style

Style is rarely silent.

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During a recent visit to the exhibition devoted to Marie Antoinette's style at the Victoria and Albert Museum, I paused before a court dress preserved from the late eighteenth century. The silk was luminous, the embroidery meticulous, the silhouette unmistakably regal.

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