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Gareth Russell revisits “Let Them Eat Cake”:

If Marie-Antoinette didn’t make the “joke,” then how did it end up being associated with her for 200 years? Some historians think it’s because the story had been going around for years, getting attributed to different royal women, but because Marie-Antoinette was the last Queen of France, it stuck with her. After her, there was nobody else to pin the story to. Others think that because the French Revolution was able to dress itself up as the force that brought freedom and equality to Europe, it had to justify its many acts of violence and terror. Executing Marie-Antoinette at the age of thirty-seven and leaving her two children as shivering, heart-broken orphans in the terrifying Temple prison, suggested that the Revolution was a lot more complicated than its supporters like to claim. However, if Marie-Antoinette is painted as stupid, deluded, out-of-touch, spoiled and selfish, then we’re likely to feel a lot less pity when it comes to studying her death. If that was the republicans’ intention, then they did a very good job. Two hundred years later and the poor woman is still stuck with a terrible reputation, and a catchphrase, that she certainly doesn’t deserve.

everyone picks on Marie Antoinette, I swear

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   I’m sorry, did you not play Treasure in the Royal Tower?

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    I think that the opposite can also be found in some people who are ‘fans’ of Marie Antoinette, who refuse to acknowledge...

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    Oh, I agree that her death and vilification was really to prevent her from becoming a rallying symbol. That’s what I...

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    (1) I think she did have influence. She sat on royal councils (she wasn’t actually as conservative as people think…she...

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