I still haven't been to the Musee Carnavalet (and it was on TV for a couple of minutes tonight, just to remind me!) so I haven't seen the relic in question, but some colours are fugitive - the red in Victorian taxidermy squirrels and foxes and - er - kittens - goes white with exposure to light. I don't have any antique brown or reddish hair, but it may do the same! Other than that - powder? Wig?
I don't have the reference to hand, but I think it comes from a remark made by Danton, recorded by Robespierre and given to Saint-Just for his accusation: it's something like 'Danton's a false friend and accused him of a private and shameful vice' (but that could be any number of things!). My Desmoulins book is Claretie, and he's very prim (1870's), so there's nothing on the source for the shagging Lucile's mother story, or any mention of bisexuality, or if such rumours floated around in scandal sheets of the time - hopefully someone else with a more up-to-date biog can enlighten on that!
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I don't have the reference to hand, but I think it comes from a remark made by Danton, recorded by Robespierre and given to Saint-Just for his accusation: it's something like 'Danton's a false friend and accused him of a private and shameful vice' (but that could be any number of things!). My Desmoulins book is Claretie, and he's very prim (1870's), so there's nothing on the source for the shagging Lucile's mother story, or any mention of bisexuality, or if such rumours floated around in scandal sheets of the time - hopefully someone else with a more up-to-date biog can enlighten on that!