Louis XVI: Ooooh! Your feet are like icicles.
Princesse de Lamballe: Can't you do something?
Marie-Antoinette: I'm not going to acknowledge it.
Madame du Barry: See no one treats me like a lady here.
Marie-Antoinette: I wish I could go with you.
Count Fersen: I should kidnap you.
Marie-Antoinette: I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness.
Duc de Choiseul: And that of France.
Duchesse de Polignac: There's something in the oysters.
Ambassador Mercy: How pretty Madame Royale is today.
Marie Therese - 6 years: I am pleased you find me so.
Marie-Antoinette: Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.
Marie-Antoinette: Am I to be Austrian or the Dauphine of France?
Ambassador Mercy: You must be both.
Answer: That was just the custom then. Total nudity was considered inappropriate, if not immoral, even when bathing, which people did infrequently or not at all because it was thought to be unhealthy.
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