"merveilleux" meaning in English

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          "text": "The ‘merveilleuse’ of the Directory in France. The ‘merveilleuse’, or ‘ultra-fashionable’, as the writer..rather inadequately translates her title, ‘walked..half naked in the Champs Elysees’.",
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          "text": "The Merveilleuses survived the Incroyables by a couple of years."
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