Wig makers on verge of extinction in land of Louis XIV's powdered peruke AP Worldstream | April 18, 2006| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

JENNY BARCHFIELD, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
04-18-2006
Dateline: PARIS
In a sun-filled apartment in Paris' historic Marais district, Marie-Therese Lebeau and her four assistants are busy at work, their hands bobbing up and down at a dizzying pace as the use crochet needles to knot single hairs onto model wooden heads.

From the master wigmaker's atelier emerge meringue-like powdered perukes like those once worn by royalty, droopy whiskers for movie-stars like Gerard Depardieu, glamorous screen siren coiffures.

The painstaking work has taken a toll on Lebeau's eyesight and she'd like ...

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