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57 - Marie Antoinette, Historical Revisionism & Revolutionary Terror

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If you search for biographies of Marie Antoinette, most of them focus on her fashion sense, her romantic relationships, and even how some of the French tabloids published misleading stories about her, such as the infamous “Let them eat cake” line and the Diamond Necklace Affair. It’s almost as though — nearly 230 years after her execution — we’re meant to believe that Marie Antoinette was a victim of the French Revolution rather than a symbol of its grievances in the first place.

So, why has Marie Antoinette’s image been sanitized in recent years? Was she simply a misunderstood aristocrat — born in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or have we, perhaps, been buying into some counter-revolutionary revisionism?

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If you search for biographies of Marie Antoinette, most of them focus on her fashion sense, her romantic relationships, and even how some of the French tabloids published misleading stories about her, such as the infamous “Let them eat cake” line and the Diamond Necklace Affair. It’s almost as though — nearly 230 years after her execution — we’re meant to believe that Marie Antoinette was a victim of the French Revolution rather than a symbol of its grievances in the first place.

So, why has Marie Antoinette’s image been sanitized in recent years? Was she simply a misunderstood aristocrat — born in the wrong place at the wrong time? Or have we, perhaps, been buying into some counter-revolutionary revisionism?

Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/DasCriminal

Sources: https://bit.ly/3bhoMVw

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