Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1897 — An Empress' Dressmaker’s Bills. [ARTICLE]

An Empress' Dressmaker’s Bills.

A French antiquarian has brought u light some interesting dressmaker’s bills of the ladies of Napoleon’s court, They are from the account books ol Leroy, the Worth of his time in matters of dress and a bad follow genera ally, but an undisputed arbiter of taste In feminine raiment. It appears that Josephine’s yearly bill was about ?80,500, and this was a greater amount than Marie Louise or Queen Hortense dared or desired to spend