1780 Michelle de Bonneuil -Violet Griotte 4,6 m

Length 4,6 m
Width 147 cm 




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

The choice 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.