Legros de Rumigny

Legros de Rumigny (1710–1770) was a French hairdresser. He was the hairdresser for the French court of the 18th century including Madame de Pompadour. In 1765 he wrote L'Art de la coeffure des dames françaises and established the Académie des Coëffures des Dames Françoises which helped establish hairdressing as a profession.[1][2][3]

A caricature of L'Académie pour la coëffures des Dames.

According to later accounts, Rumigny was discovered to have raped a number of his clients. Although accusations were made against him during his lifetime, they were dismissed by the royal court and he was never formally charged.[4]

References
  1. Victoria Sherrow (2006), Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 163, ISBN 9780313331459
  2. Hairstyles: a cultural history of fashions in hair from antiquity, 1988, p. 136
  3. Richard Corson (1980), Fashions in Hair: the first five thousand years, p. 331
  4. Commune de Paris (1903). Actes de la Commune de Paris pendant la Révolution [Acts of the Paris Commune during the Revolution] (in French). Paris: L. Cerf.


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