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Speaker 1: Welcome to steph you missed in history class from house

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Speaker 1: stuff Works dot com. Hello and welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Holly Fromman I'm Tracy we Wilson. So Leonard Ottier

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Speaker 1: became so much a part of French court in the

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Speaker 1: eighteenth century that many people actually believe that he was

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Speaker 1: a member of the nobility. He was not, but as

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Speaker 1: coiffure to Marie Antoinette, he was afforded access to her

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Speaker 1: that even most nobles would not have had, and after

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Speaker 1: her ladies in waiting, for example, would complete the long

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Speaker 1: codified ritual of dressing the Queen, Leonard went in to

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Speaker 1: Marie Antoinette's apartment and create the hairstyle masterpieces that have

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Speaker 1: really become a hallmark of the young ruler's iconic image.

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Speaker 1: I think most of us when we think of Marie Antoinette,

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Speaker 1: we think of her giant stacked hair with the ship

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Speaker 1: in it. Yeah, but we're gonna talk about a little

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Speaker 1: bit um and that is all because of this one person,

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Speaker 1: and that iconic hare is very, very tied as well

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Speaker 1: to the image of debauchery and corruption that Marie Antoinette

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Speaker 1: was a oociated with. As the French monarchy came under

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Speaker 1: attack her hairstyles too. Many not only looked ridiculous, but

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Speaker 1: they were also very expensive and they were dangerous. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Their sheer size made them difficult to manage. There is

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Speaker 1: story after story of them just having to take things

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Speaker 1: out and change hair to get in and out of carriages. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And in a time when candles provided all illumination, they

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Speaker 1: were huge fire hazards. There are also many stories of

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Speaker 1: people getting their hair ignited or catching on chandeliers as

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Speaker 1: they walked around. Like basically they were just a problem. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And not only was Louis the sixteenth Queen spending massive

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Speaker 1: sums of money to keep her hairstyled this way, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit about how much Leonard

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Speaker 1: was able to charge for some of these. But other

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Speaker 1: women of France were, of course following her lead to

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Speaker 1: try to keep up with trends. So Marie Antoinette was

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Speaker 1: skewered in the press not only for her own loose

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Speaker 1: purse strings when it came to pursuing fashion and style,

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Speaker 1: but also for the financial irresponsibility that her style choices

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Speaker 1: inspired in other women of the country. And the man

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Speaker 1: with the comb who created all of that Fereor is

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Speaker 1: the topic of today's episode and the next it is

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Speaker 1: a two parter. Before we get into this, we have

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Speaker 1: to talk about the term hairdresser or because it's one

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Speaker 1: of those things that in the modern parlance, I think

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Speaker 1: most people that do hair would like to be called stylists.

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Speaker 1: Um hairdresser has in some salons, not all, hairdresser has

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Speaker 1: become more like the person who does It's almost like

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Speaker 1: the assistant who handles rinsing prep, you know that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff, whereas stylist is the person that actually decides

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Speaker 1: what your hair is gonna look like, you know, color,

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Speaker 1: There's it's varied, there's a whole different hierarchy of words.

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Speaker 1: It's not consistent. Even Salona Salon. Some stylists don't even care.

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Speaker 1: Just let me do my let me do hair, and

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Speaker 1: I'm good. But just in case anyone is wondering about that,

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Speaker 1: because you may go to someone who says, I'm not

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Speaker 1: a hair dress room a stylist. In this context, hairdresser

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Speaker 1: was pretty much the term, and we're going to use that.

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Speaker 1: So don't think that we're in any way demeaning anyone

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Speaker 1: who designs colors, etcetera hair but Leonard called himself a

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Speaker 1: hair dresser, and as well learn his call to hair

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Speaker 1: dressing was not because he thought he was, you know,

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Speaker 1: an artiste that needed to do it. He thought, stupid

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Speaker 1: people can do this and make a ton of money,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna do it. Uh, So we're gonna talk

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Speaker 1: about Leonard Autier. Leonard Alexis Attier was born somewhere in

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Speaker 1: the five year span between seventeen forty six and seventeen

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Speaker 1: but even from a very young age, Leonard longed for

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Speaker 1: more than life in a rural town could really offer him,

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Speaker 1: and he learned his trade in styling hair as an

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Speaker 1: apprentice in Marseilles and Toulouse, and then he spent time

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Speaker 1: in Bordeaux crafting the latest hairstyles. But his work never

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Speaker 1: He moved to Paris in seventeen sixty nine when Louis

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Speaker 1: called a tete de mouton or sheep's head. Autier settled

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Speaker 1: I sort of love this because in the beginning this

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Speaker 1: He had walked into Paris with basically nothing but was

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Speaker 1: so he used some baking flowers, some leftover baking flower

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Speaker 1: really clean and tidy and artfully assembled. There's even discussion

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Speaker 1: of how he very carefully tied his cravats so that

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Speaker 1: completely assembled. And he put on a sword, which was

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Speaker 1: common for French noblemen at the time, and he went

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Speaker 1: out to seek his fortune, and according to his account,

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Speaker 1: little bit later, people in the street just stopped and

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Speaker 1: commented on what an attractive and fine looking gentleman he was.

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Speaker 1: He made his way to the business of a monsieur Legroux,

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Speaker 1: looking for a job. Legrox had written a book on

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Speaker 1: hairstyling called The Art of Hair Dressing, which Leonard had read,

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Speaker 1: and in fact it was one of the things that

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Speaker 1: inspired the young man from the country to start pursuing

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Speaker 1: a career in coiffure. But this was not a case

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Speaker 1: Autier felt that if someone such as Legroux, who was

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Speaker 1: career for himself based on dressing hair and complimenting rich women,

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Speaker 1: then certainly he could do the same thing. And he

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Speaker 1: managed to establish an industry contact in Lgaro. They talked

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Speaker 1: about him possibly working there, and that was thanks in

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Speaker 1: part to a friend of Otier's named Fremont, who was

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Speaker 1: already working for the established hairdresser Leonard felt that he

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Speaker 1: would quickly surpass Legro and he told Fremont that he

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Speaker 1: believed he would be quote the foremost hairdresser in the

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Speaker 1: universe within three years. This was the bold most for anyone,

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Speaker 1: day before with almost nothing, but it evidenced the boastful

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Speaker 1: and often overconfident personality that he would really become famous for. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this was a man that did not lack for confidence,

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Speaker 1: like to the point that as I read his memoirs

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Speaker 1: really quite envious. As a man, it must be like

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Speaker 1: a delight to walk through the world with like absolutely

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Speaker 1: no self doubtte and with the help of Fremon, Leonard

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Speaker 1: quickly made additional friends and he started doing the hair

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Speaker 1: of one of the actresses at Nicolette's Theater for a

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Speaker 1: pieces in this really lavish hair do that also involved

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Speaker 1: who had been doing okay but not exactly having a

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Speaker 1: quite quickly, and in turn, Leonard also was given a

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Speaker 1: lot of attention. The young hairdresser moved immediately out of

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Speaker 1: Leonard was glad to make a connection so closely tied

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Speaker 1: to the nobility, and his posthumously published memoirs he wrote

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Speaker 1: may very well decide the destiny of my whole life

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Speaker 1: talk about his incredibly speedy rise to success. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Leonard had a rapidly growing clientele in the theater. Numerous

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Speaker 1: actresses and dancers demanded to have him perform the same

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Speaker 1: But even as he shot to fame inside just a

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Speaker 1: of jealous sabotage. A foot Legro, the established hairdresser who

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Speaker 1: Leonard had visited his first full day in the city,

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Speaker 1: least to some, this rumor only made the handsome Leonard

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Speaker 1: Autis memoirs indicate that the two of them began a

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Speaker 1: appointments with Leonard, but as described in Wilbashore's biography of Leonard, quote,

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Speaker 1: according to one on liquor, her hair never seemed so

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Speaker 1: badly arranged. Yeah, she was having some. I was two

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Speaker 1: Jacques introduced Leonard to Madame Duberry, the King's favorite, and

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Speaker 1: it was actually an invitation from Duberry that first granted

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