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vivelareine · 1 year ago

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My (finished sometime in the future) book on Marie Antoinette in pop culture/media/public consciousness is going to have a section on the infantalization of Marie Antoinette into a perpetual teenager that presents her as being in this Poor Girlhood stasis while ignoring her adulthood and especially her last few years, all while presenting an inflated version of life at Versailles in order to forward this narrative more strongly, and said chapter is gonna be hot.

#people who cling to the coppola aesthetic narrative will not be happy #like anyone who follows this blog knows I love MA but please stop pretending she was forever a teenage dauphine #one of the reasons courtiers hated her is because she was allowed to change etiquette as queen #she got irritated with Maximilien & Joseph II for not following etiquette they visited. It's not that she expected all etiquette to be gone #It's that she expected or rather wanted to live like a queen might live in other countries in Europe #respected but not suffocated #not bound by 'this person is rank B.6 so they get to talk before this b.9 person but oh wait an A.3 came in now THEY get to...' etc #a lot of people with this attitude also share the 'anything they read about versailles being wacky is true' belief which is just odd #like can we use common sense sometimes PLEASE

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