Poor old Marie Antoinette. My history teacher at school described her in revoltingly sentimental terms. She was greedy. She was vain. She was callous in her indifference to the starving peasantry. She was, however, probably not guilty of all the sexual stuff she was accused of. I don't supoose it helped her one bit, when the aristocracy refused to pay any taxes, which they had always been exempt from. I can understand why the French so love their revolution.
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