Françoise Leclerc (d. 1739) was a French

fashion merchant Marchande de modes was a French Guild organisation for women fashion merchants or milliners, normally meaning ornaments for headdresses, hats and dresses, within the city of Paris Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of commune ...

and seamstress, and the official seamstress of the French queen

Marie Leszczyńska Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczyńska (; 23 June 1703 – 24 June 1768), also known as Marie Leczinska (), was Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XV from their marriage on 4 September 1725 until her death in 1768. The daughter of St ...

. She was a leading figure of the fashion world in Paris during the 1720s and 1730s, with a large clientele from within the French aristocracy. Roche, Daniel, ''The culture of clothing: dress and fashion in the ancien regime'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996

994 Year 994 ( CMXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. Events By place Byzantine Empire * September 15 – Battle of the Orontes: Fatimid forces, under Turkish general Manjutakin (also the governor ...

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