The Malignment of Marie Antoinette
Neither a Feminist Icon Nor a Malevolent Monarch
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12 min readJan 11, 2021
When I sat down to watch Sophia Coppola’s reimagining of Marie Antoinette in the eponymous 2006 film, I did not expect the story of the centuries-old Queen of France to spellbind me in such a way. There are not many historical figures that beguile us in the way that she seems to. Not many historical figures that were…
