Does bathing in the juice of fresh strawberries sound sumptuously sticky? 
Madame Talien, who was a social figure during the French Revolution, kept her complexion radiant with this messy method of washing.
Twenty-two pounds of crushed strawberries made up the bathwater that went into her tub. Vive strawberry bath gel and vintage postcards!
She was arrested and jailed for being the wife of an aristocrat. She flirted her way out of the guillotine, divorced, and then became a champion for Liberalism. Strawberries saved her scented neck!
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3 cool cats commented:
Mme Talien was sure ahead of her time using natural products to keep up her complexion! She must have been especially charming to escape the fate of so many aristocrats then. She sounds like a very interesting woman! And I like the fraise postcard too. Very sweet! Oops, pun unintended.
Madame Talien was very keen
on bathing in the berry juice...
and in the scene at the guillotine she used her sweetness to get loose...
But did her mate escape this fate? Did HE bath in the berry?
Or did he meet eternal sleep in the blade you cannot parry?
I love the history that goes along with your postcards! You're amazing!
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