Professor Christine Adams
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There's sort of these scandalous biographies, anecdotes about the corruption that's taking place at Versailles.
And there's quite a few about Madame du Barry.
And a lot of the histories of the 19th and 20th century draw from these Libelle, which were of questionable accuracy.
Okay.
But it sort of reflected how people felt about her sort of spendthrift ways at court.
I mean, she was really hated by the people of France and in a way that seems at odds with her niceness that I was talking about.
But by the time the revolution breaks out, oddly enough, she becomes sort of linked in people's minds with Marie Antoinette.
Despite the fact that Marie Antoinette had not liked her, Dubarry is actually a royalist.
And she retains her sympathy for French royalty.
And like I said, she becomes sort of linked with Marie Antoinette, the libelles that are written about Marie Antoinette sort of draw from the very rich vein that you have of scandalous literature about Dubarry.
Marie Antoinette goes on trial in the fall of 1793, about nine months after Louis XVI is executed.
And Marie Antoinette goes to the guillotine in October of 1793.
Just a few months later, Du Barry goes to the guillotine.
So she didn't stay in a convent then?
She got out of her convent.
She lived at Louveciennes.
She had several lovers.
She led a fairly pleasant life in the late 1770s, 1780s.
But she makes a couple of suspicious trips to London in search of jewelry that was stolen from her house in the early 1790s.
And that comes to the revolutionary's attention.
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