[213]: Journal to Stella, letter 8.
[214]: Journal to Stella, letter 8.
[215]: It is said to have had its origin in a hunting party, where the hair of the royal favourite got loose. She hurriedly tied her laced handkerchief round her head; and the effect produced was so pretty, and artistic, that it delighted Louis XIV., who begged her to keep it so arranged for the remainder of the day—a hint not wasted on the other ladies, who next day appeared 'coiffées à la Fontange.'
[216]: Spectator, No. 98, June 21, 1711.
[217]: London Spy.
[218]: The extremely bouffée furbelows were called rumpt furbelows, and the brooches inserted in the centre were called rump jewels or rumphlets.
[219]: The Petticoat; an Heroi-Comical Poem, by Joseph Gay (pseudo for J. Durant de Brevel), 1716.
[220]: Tatler, 116.
[221]: Spectator, 331.
[222]: Ibid. 435.