Marie Antoinette Nightshirt

What Marie Antoinette Wore to Bed.

Marie-Antoinette is the one who said: “If they don’t have bread, let them eat cake.”

She herself had cake... but wanted bread.

People want what they haven’t got. Especially when they have Everything.

She had everything. Her father was Emperor. Her husband was King. She was Queen.

But Versailles suffocated her. She hated the acres of ormolu, miles of mirrors, armies of flatterers. She yearned for something else; she yearned for innocence.

She almost got it; built another world for herself. Off in the woods, far from Versailles, she created a tiny hamlet of farms, cowsheds, private apartments with thatched roofs, dairies, vegetable gardens, a ballroom in the form of a barn; a little gleaming river, even a secluded meadow.

Few were ever invited to see it.

But it was a sensation. Overnight, the aristocracy would have given anything for the privilege of... milking a cow. Or any other favors. This simple nightshirt epitomizes Marie-Antoinette’s dream of innocence.