Hair Quiz and History of France

	The Hair and History of France

Overview: Why did Joan of Arc have her hair cut? Who launched the curly wig fashion for men in the XVIIth century? What happened to Napoleon’s hair for people to think that he was killed by poisoning?... A ten question quiz on the hair that have made History of France.

Question 1

The Gauls do not cut their hair because:

It differentiates them from the Roman invader.
Druids ban it.
It is a sign of manhood and freedom.

Question 2

Brunehaut, a Merovingian queen, dies:

With her hair attached to a horse.
Hung by the hair.
Hung by the feet, with the hair in the wind.

Question 3

Joan of Arc has her hair cut,

As a sign of submission to God.
In order to be taken for a man.
To counter the accusation that she is a witc.

Question 4

In the 15th century, Isabeau de Bavière, Queen of France, makes the hennin fashionable:

Because Church recommends it.
Following an order of her husband, Charles le Fol.
In order to hide something.

Question 5

The long and curly wig was started by:

Louis the XIIIth.
Mazarin.
Louis the XIVth.

Question 6

'Merlan’, the slang French word for whiting, appeared,

Under Louis the XVth, at the time of powdered wigs.
In 1972, when the Convention bans wigs.
At the time of Napolean’s army’s Grognards.

Question 7

In order to make Marie-Antoinette’s hair poufs, and those of the ladies of her time, hairdressers buy their additional hair mainly from:

England.
Normandy.
Northern Italy .

Question 8

Marie-Antoinette’s hair turns white in one night,

After she returns from Varennes.
Following the Duchesse of Lamballe's death.
The day before her own execution.

Question 9

According to some, Napoleon dies poisoned, because:

His hair has become considerably dull.
He loses in 8 days all of the hair that he has left..
At autopsy, the hair’s analysis reveals the presence of arsenic.

Question 10

The ‘boyish’ hair cut is started, after World War I:

By hairdressers.
By the feminists.
By the modists, whose bell-shaped hats require very short hair.