Professor Christine Adams

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When the country is sort of on a downward slope, to spend this much money on luxuries is not really smart.

On the other hand, as a mistress, you probably know that your time may be short.

Absolutely, yeah.

Beauty does not last forever.

And so one of the things that you'd want to do is you'd want to sort of build up

I mean, to take care of yourself once you are no longer the king's favorite.

So in a sort of strictly pragmatic sense, I mean.

Well, and everybody did this.

I mean, there is no greedier group of people.

I would have done it.

You would have done it.

No, exactly.

Exactly.

And no greedier group of people than the French nobility.

I mean, do they really have the right to criticize her?

I mean, they were always, you know, petitioning the king for favors and emoluments of various kinds.

And so I have a hard time getting too moralistic about it.

No, no, no.

She is certainly a target.

You know, in the 1770s, there's this whole sort of literature called the Libelle.

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