The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 4 Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng nâng cao chuyên ngành văn chương. Nhằm giúp các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | The Man Who Laughs VICTOR HUGO PART 2 BOOK 1 CHAPTER 4 The Leader of Fashion Josiana was bored. The fact is so natural as to be scarcely worth mentioning. Lord David held the position of judge in the gay life of London. He was looked up to by the nobility and gentry. Let us register a glory of Lord David s. He was daring enough to wear his own hair. The reaction against the wig was beginning. Just as in 1824 Eugene Deveria was the first to allow his beard to grow so in 1702 Prince Devereux was the first to risk wearing his own hair in public disguised by artful curling. For to risk one s hair was almost to risk one s head. The indignation was universal. Nevertheless Prince Devereux was Viscount Hereford and a peer of England. He was insulted and the deed was well worth the insult. In the hottest part of the row Lord David suddenly appeared without his wig and in his own hair. Such conduct shakes the foundations of society. Lord David was insulted even more than Viscount Hereford. He held his ground. Prince Devereux was the first Lord David Dirry-Moir the second. It is sometimes more difficult to be second than first. It requires less genius but more courage. The first intoxicated by the novelty may ignore the danger the second sees the abyss and rushes into it. Lord David flung himself into the abyss of no longer wearing a wig. Later on these lords found imitators. Following these two revolutionists men found sufficient audacity to wear their own hair and powder was introduced as an extenuating circumstance. In order to establish before we pass on an important period of history we should remark that the first blow in the war of wigs was really struck by a Queen Christina of Sweden who wore man s clothes and had appeared in 1680 in her hair of golden brown powdered and brushed up from her head. She had besides says Misson a slight beard. The Pope on his part by a bull of March 1694 had somewhat let down the wig by taking it from the heads of bishops and priests and
