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Associate Professor of French Literature, Columbia University

October 21, 2009 Full Interview with Caroline Weber

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Big Think Interview with Caroline Weber

A conversation with the fashion historian and professor of French Literature at Barnard. … Watch

October 21, 2009   |  In Arts & Culture, History, Politics & Policy, World

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User_rxoy_8e52e6fac A specialist in eighteenth-century French literature and culture, Weber is a fashion historian and the author of "Queen of Fashion: What Marie-Antoinette Wore to the French Revolution." She is also an Associate French Professor at Barnard College.

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