The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie Antoinette

As though there weren’t enough to worry about with an extravagant, debauched queen transforming the court of France into a bordello and the king into an almighty cuckold. … A further stroke of depravity was to be added: Marie Antoinette liked women. She exhausted men without loving them. In reality, she was only interested in her own sex. The picture gets worse: what was a frisson of impropriety became disgust, nausea, a repulsive image. We leave to Louise Robert, a woman manifestly overwhelmed by the prospect of homosexuality, the task of accusing the queen, or rather, of interrogating her: “But can it be that Antoinette, surpassing all her like, has infected the court of France with a type of debauchery that has never before held sway there? … My quill fails me, Antoinette! … Who from now on in the whole wide world could be so impure as to hear your name without shuddering in horror?”

I hope the image isn’t too much for this blog, I was unable to find any propaganda where she was with another woman that wasn’t at least naked.