The Queen was also desirous of being served by the most fashionable hairdresser in Paris.
Now the custom which forbade all persons in inferior offices, employed by royalty, to exert their talents for the public, was no doubt intended to cut off all communication between the privacy of princes and society at large; the latter being always extremely curious respecting the most trifling particulars relative to the private life of the former.

The Queen, fearing that the taste of the hairdresser would suffer if he should discontinue the general practice of his art, ordered him to attend as usual certain ladies of the Court and of Paris; and this multiplied the opportunities of learning details respecting the household, and very often of misrepresenting them.
One of the customs most disagreeable to the Queen was that of dining every day in public.

Maria Leczinska had always submitted to this wearisome practice; Marie Antoinette followed it as long as she was Dauphiness.

The Dauphin dined with her, and each branch of the family had its public dinner daily.

The ushers suffered all decently dressed people to enter; the sight was the delight of persons from the country.