Caroline Weber tells the story of how Marie-Antoinette's clothing choices helped make and unmake her reputation, altering the very course of French history. Weber, author of *Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the Revolution*, presents a new vision of this ever-fascinating French queen. Like Princess Diana and Jacqueline Onassis, Marie-Antoinette was an icon of style, a muse of fashion, a woman who used clothing to command attention.
Caroline Weber received her Ph.D. in French literature from Yale University (1998) and her BA in Literature from Harvard University (1991). Before coming to Barnard/Columbia, she taught for seven years at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and culture, with particular emphasis on the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, she is the author of *Terror and its Discontents: Suspect Words and the French Revolution* (2003), and the co-editor of a special issue of Yale French Studies, *Fragments of Revolution* (2001). She has published articles on eighteenth-century authors such as Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Sade, Charrire, and La Chausse, and on contemporary thinkers like Lacan and Lyotard. She recently published *Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the French Revolution* (2006), and is at work on a study of ideology and the drame bourgeois. Additional research and teaching interests include eighteenth-century fiction and philosophy; psychoanalysis and critical theory; and gender studies.