Royal footwear in Versailles

This leather-soled silk and kid leather shoe decorated with pleated ribbons is inscribed in pen on the heel 'Soulier de Marie-Antoinette donné à M.de Voisey'.

It has passed down by descent through the family of Charles-Gilbert de Lachapelle (1755-94) who wa…

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