Antique French Portrait Miniature in 18th Century Tortoise Shell Snuff Box, 18k Incroyables et Merveilleux c.1795on Frame Mount

Her loose and casual fashion would suggest she is one of the fashion icon youth known as the Incroyables et Merveilleux (incredibles and marvelous), a political fashion movement in protest of the guillotined and confined to dates c. 1795-99.  The Incroyables (incredible men) and their female counterparts, the Merveilleuses  "marvelous women"), were members of a fashionable aristocratic subculture in Paris during the French Directory period (1795–1799). Whether as catharsis or in a need to reconnect with other survivors of the Reign of Terror (guillotines) they greeted the new regime with an outbreak of luxury, decadence, and even silliness. They held hundreds of balls and started fashion trends in clothing and mannerisms that today seem exaggerated, affected, or even effete. They were also mockingly called "incoyable" or "meveilleuse", without the letter R, reflecting their upper class accent in which that letter was lightly pronounced, almost inaudibly. When this period ended, society