2024-07-29
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frivolous, extravagant, libertine, orgiastic, lesbian, incestuous and bloodthirsty, a poisoner and an infanticide, Marie Antoinette tried her hand at every crime.
Through her wickednesses, she caused the revolution.
She ruined the country, brought the people to despair, drove them to revolt.
All must be revealed.
It was from your lechery that our gothels were emptied to pay for your pleasures.
So declared the anonymous author of the cause of the French Revolution or the secret conduct of Marie Antoinette of Austria, queen of France.
Published in 1790, after having brought about the fall of the ancien regime, she struggled to preserve it.
She was corruption personified, infinitely decadent.
So that was Chantal Thomas in La Reine cellerate, the wicked queen.
Her biography, her account of Marie Antoinette through the eyes of the propaganda against her.
Tom.
And what a way to kick off our great new series on the French Revolution than with libertinism, orgiastic behavior, incest, bloodthirstiness.
Brilliant.
Everything we associate with french history.
And the perfect way for us, Tom, on the rest, is history to greet the beginning of the Paris Olympics.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.