 Invitations to the most famous (and infamous) parties throughout history.
By Tony Perrottet |
A Heady Affair How did the French mark the end of the Terror? With parties, fashion, and 'dos, of course!
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Fire Hazard Our new leaders are celebrating, but hopefully not setting themselves on fire (right, King Charles VI?).
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The Class of 1250 Think the Kappa boys know how to party? You should have seen Oxford in the 1200s.
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Political Party One Washington night in 1828, mobs smashed china, destroyed furniture, and passed out drunk. A bar fight? Nope: Andrew Jackson's inauguration.
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The Renaissance Art Reception Need a dinner party menu? Try a scene from Ovid, with two roosters posed as Ulysses and his father.
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Great Minds Drink Alike Symposia today are filled with professors, panels, and papers. In Plato's time, it was brains, booze, and boys.
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Divine Drunks The ideal Roman night? Drunk and naked in the woods.
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Partying With Pablo Anyone could give the caterer the wrong date. But when you have Gertrude Stein and Henri Rousseau coming over...?
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R.S.V.P. At Truman Capote's Black and White Ball, Frank Sinatra wouldn't stay and his Kansas friends wouldn't leave. The first in a series on history's famous fetes.
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