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{{Short description|Color}} {{About|the colour|the school PUCE|Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador}} {{use dmy dates|date=September 2024}} <!-- This article started with and uses American English--> {{Infobox color |title=Puce |hex=CC8899 |source=[[99colors.net]]<ref>[http://www.99colors.net/name/puce 99colors.net]</ref> |isccname=Dark pink}} '''Puce''' is a brownish purple colour. The term comes from the [[French language|French]] {{lang|fr|couleur puce}}, literally meaning "[[flea]] colour".<ref name=oed>{{Cite OED|puce|3451789277}}</ref> Puce became popular in the late 18th century in France. It appeared in clothing at the court of [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]]. The colour was said to be a favourite colour of [[Marie Antoinette]]; however, there are no portraits of her wearing it.<ref>{{Cite book|last=St. Clair|first=Kassia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0gUEDgAAQBAJ&q=puce+color&pg=PT98|title=The Secret Lives of Color|date=2017-10-24|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-1-5247-0494-0|language=en|archive-date=14 September 2024|access-date=7 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240914005220/https://books.google.com/books?id=0gUEDgAAQBAJ&q=puce+color&pg=PT98|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=Katy |last=Kelleher |date=2017-10-24 |title=The Sexy-Gross Story of Puce |url=https://www.theawl.com/2017/10/the-sexy-gross-story-of-puce/ |access-date=2020-09-04 |website=The Awl |language=en |archive-date=14 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240914005220/https://www.theawl.com/2017/10/the-sexy-gross-story-of-puce/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |author=Under The Moonlight |date=2020-07-14 |title=Puce Was Once The Height Of 18th Century French Fashion For A Second |url=https://underthemoonlight.ca/2020/07/14/puce-was-once-popular-in-16th-century-france/ |access-date=2020-09-04 |website=Under The Moonlight |language=en |archive-date=14 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240914005222/https://underthemoonlight.ca/2020/07/14/puce-was-once-popular-in-16th-century-france/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Puce was also a popular fashion colour in 19th-century [[Paris]]. In his novel {{lang|fr|[[Nana (novel)|Nana]]}}, [[Émile Zola]] describes a woman "dressed in a dark gown of an equivocal colour, somewhere between puce and goose shit."<ref>{{cite book|quote={{lang|fr|Vêtue d'une robe sombre de couleur indécise, entre le puce et le caca d'oie.}}|last=Zola|first=Émile|title=Nana|date=1880|location=Paris|publisher=G. Charpentier|page=45|url=https://archive.org/details/nanazolae00zola/page/45}}</ref> In [[Victor Hugo]]'s {{lang|fr|[[Les Misérables]]}}, Mademoiselle Baptistine wears "a gown of puce-coloured silk, of the fashion of 1806, which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted ever since."<ref>{{cite book|last=Hugo|first=Victor|translator-last1=Hapgood|translator-first1=Isabel F.|title=Les Misérables|date=1887|location=New York|publisher=Thomas Y. Crowell|page=67|url=https://archive.org/details/lesmisrables01unkngoog/page/n79}}</ref>
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