Professor Christine Adams
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And then she did have her partisans.
The Marshal de Richelieu, his son, the Duke of Aguillon, was quite important at court, and he had a circle of counselors that he was involved with, like Mopo and the Abitere.
And these are the people who come to dominate the court in the last four years of Louis XV's reign.
So she's allied with people who become very politically important at court.
No one says that Du Barry herself was particularly interested in politics, but she's an important conduit of politics.
Yeah.
And that this was sort of an accepted fact of court life by this point.
Mistresses had played this really important political role.
And so people assume that the way to the king's ear is through his mistress.
There's a lot of people at Versailles today.
The day was sort of, that's it.
Yeah, and that's it.
And she was basically pushed into it by her mother and by the ambassador, Merci Argento, because it was becoming an international problem.
That it was going to affect relations between the French and the Austrians if she did not make nice with Madame du Bar.
Because she's going to make the king angry.
Yeah, and he was angry.
I mean, the king was very, very...
fond of Marie Antoinette when she first arrived.
But this was a sore spot.
And he made it pretty clear that she was going to have to say something.
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