Six French Frizeurs
David A. Bell, 10 December 1998
The Perfidy of Albion: French Perceptions of England during the French Revolution
by Norman Hampson.
Macmillan, 210 pp., £40, June 1998,0 333 73148 4 Show More
by Norman Hampson.
Macmillan, 210 pp., £40, June 1998,
Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders
by Don Herzog.
Princeton, 472 pp., £18, September 1998,0 691 04831 2 Show More
by Don Herzog.
Princeton, 472 pp., £18, September 1998,
“... Scarborough kept ‘six French frizeurs, who have nothing else to do than dress his hair’. Even Edmund Burke could not help admitting that ‘France has always more or less influenced manners in England.’ Yet co-existing with this French influence was what Linda Colley has called a ‘vast superstructure of prejudice’, directed generally against ... ”