Professor Christine Adams
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And sort of
What does she call it?
She calls it some sort of silly childish banter between them.
Oh, he's got it bad, doesn't he?
Right.
And so I think that it's not, like I said, not implausible.
Obviously, we can't get inside their bedroom and find out what they were actually doing.
But it does seem that she came from a different world than certainly his other official mistresses.
And like I said, there doesn't seem to have been a way for him to have been exposed to courtesans prior to this.
Wow.
Oh, so his daughters loathe her.
And they, you know, they're once again in the movie that Mai Wen made about Jean Dubarry, they're like these sort of cartoonish, you know, evil step sister type daughters.
But it is very clear that they did dislike her.
It also is true that they seem to have worked very hard to turn Marie Antoinette against her when she arrived at court very shortly after Dubarry was established.
And so Marie Antoinette refused to have anything to do with her.
Yeah.
She was finally forced into sort of being polite to her.
And then the Duc de Choiseul, his sisters, his partisans all disliked her.
People were generally probably polite to her because you would not get very far at court being actively rude to the king's mistress.
So probably most people were at least superficially polite and pleasant.
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