High heels were in fashion until the 1780s. Mules or slippers were more comfortable than most and were often worn whenever indoors. They were heavily embroidered, often bejeweled or decorated with a ribbon tie or rosette. When the royal family was forced to flee in Paris, the Queen (in a kind of sad parody of the Cinderella tale) lost her shoe – a satin slipper with ruched ribbon trim. This solitary shoe was salvaged and is now housed in the collections of the museum of French history.