Why breast of French Queen Marie Antoinette is remembered more than the person

You will hardly remember how you looked the wife of the king of France Louis XVI Marie Antoinette, 18th century. But we can confidently say that one part of the body of the Queen you must know, namely her left breast. That is a Royal chest for centuries became the standard shape and size of champagne glasses and only in recent years began to gradually withdraw into the background.

Anthony Maria Joseph Johann of Habsburg-Lorraine, which we simply called Marie Antoinette was born November 2, 1755. He lived for this woman is only 37 years and ended his life on the guillotine during the French revolution, but history has preserved the memory of her as one of the most luxurious ladies in the history of Europe.

Queen Marie-Antoinette

King Louis XVI loved his wife and, according to numerous sources, was ordered to make a cast of her left breast and create on it champagne glasses. Sentimental monarch wanted a drink from the similarity of the Breasts of his beautiful wife and, inadvertently, introduced a new standard of the glasses.

It is not excluded that the romantic history of the famous got the champagne glasses or as it is called coupe (coupe de champagne) is just a beautiful legend. But the fact remains — that under Louis XVI in the late 18th century these glasses first appeared and began to mass use, first in France and then in other European countries.

Absolutely precisely it is known that Queen Marie-Antoinette loved the champagne and did not skimp on the organization of lavish parties. That's when it became the custom to build from glasses coupe Grand pyramid, which devastated numerous guests in just minutes. The popularity of these "towers" back in the early 20th century, although the magnitude was not the same.

Four main types of champagne glasses: flute, Tulip, coupe, trumpet

People just have to deal, conducted a series of experiments and found that the coupe champagne saves gas only 17 minutes, and in a glass flute, the bubbles can be kept for up to one hour! Perhaps that is why got the champagne glasses lately rarely used for their intended purpose, and often fill their a variety of alcoholic cocktails.