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“French democrats surprising the royal runaways.”
The Wicked Queen: The Origins of the Myth of Marie Antoinette by Chantal Thomas:
In the pamphlets [written against the queen] the paternity of the queen’s children was more often than not attributed to the comte d’Artois. “Now I am stuck for nine months, thanks to your gaff,” she says to him in one pamphlet, with her usual flippancy! another text has the queen inform the reader of Artois’s reaction to paternity: “I soon realized what an unnatural character he was, when I told the adorable prince, ‘Ah! Dear Artois, your little dauphin … is kicking me in the stomach.’
‘And me in the ass, my darling,’ he replied. ‘But fuck it! Have patience, we’ll manage to get rid of it like all the rest.’”
(image source: my screencaps of Versailles: Countdown to Revolution)
Detail of “French democrats surprising the royal runaways.”
On a human Monarch’s back
I see the Mother of Vice
Plunged in fearful pleasures twice
A whorish queen, a princely hack.
A lout of a Prince and a prostitute queen.
-quatrain from “The Austrian Woman on the Rampage, or The Royal Orgy.” 1789.
image source: my screencap from Marie Antoinette: La veritable histoire
“Two become one.”
A caricature circa 1791 depicting a love affair between Marie-Antoinette and the Marquis de Lafayette, complete with awkward bird!children. The Abbe de Vermond (on the right) is present, perhaps as a another lover or as a shot at Vermond in general.
