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GG(J.765.004
21 Feb 1765:22 (99)
To the Nobility, Ladies and Gentry of England.
My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen,
Monsieur de la Papillote, merchant peruke-maker, hair-
cutter, and friseur, educated under, and disciple of, that
ever renowned and celebrated artist, the sieur la Toupee at
Paris, now begs leave to acquaint you that having been
animated by the rising taste of the nobility and gentry of
England, he is resolved, out of pure love to them, to
abandon his native country, in order to settle in London . .
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[1 1/4 column, essay on hair and wig styles as satire on
tradesmen and follies of fashion. About half-way down first
column:] For the gentlemen of the beaumonde, whose taste
and talents lie in dress, whether templars, clerks, dancing-
masters, or journeymen mercers, he prepares perukes frized
in the following taste and fashions, all now in great esteem
at Paris, viz. en ailes de pigeon, (pigeons wings) . . .
London Magazine for September 1764.
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