Showing posts with label Marie Antoinette. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Marie Antoinette. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2015

The queen played the harp

The much-maligned queen of France, Marie Antoinette loved her clothes, hunts, privacy, scandals, affairs, bitchiness and the harp.

She was a harpist and a simple woman, thrust into the French court and it's compulsory political pettiness.

Yet, we have been taught in schools, probably to bite monarchy in favour of our democracy, that Marie was a villain


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