1780 Michelle de Bonneuil - Colourfull 100 x 115 cm

The fabric is nice Cotton Poplin
Enough for an Apron
Length 100 cm
Width 115 cm 




Inspiration to this design I have found from a textile fragment that belongs to Cooper Hewitts collections.

This design is "Colourfull" where the "greens are bright" what we do not see often today. This brighter design could have been as how the colours could have be seen 250 years ago. 
The of fabric lands on Cotton Cretonne, that is good choice for the dress making. About five to seven meters is needed. Start with creating the back plates, to get a nice cut.    

I have given name to this fabric after Michelle Sentuary, Born in 1748, Sainte-Suzanne, île Bourbon, married name Jean-Cyrille Guesnon de Bonneuil, was a French overseas agent during the French Revolution and First French Empire. Inspiring André Chénier and others, she was a lady "celebrated for her beauty and her agreeable spirit" according to the formula of Charles de Lacretelle himself a friend of Chénier. She stands for thousands of women in modern and contemporary historiography and has had several biographies in biographical dictionaries.

From 1791, she was implicated in counter-revolutionary projects, of which few were as badly executed as the royal family's planned escape with others from the hôtel d'Esclignac, which ended in the plotters' arrest on 18 April 1791.