#is really just hardly mentioned and it was a significant contributor to the backlash
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Crazy to me that most pop history stuff about the Diamond Necklace Affair has the anti-MA backlash portrayed as just completely delusional misogynistic xenophobia, and doesn't at all mention the impact of the botched public branding of Jeanne de la Motte on public opinion.
#obviously misogynistic xenophobia was involved lol#but the pr disaster of having some woman tortured in public#is really just hardly mentioned and it was a significant contributor to the backlash#the affair of the diamond necklace#frev
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