Professor Christine Adams
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And it reflects sort of the politics of this time, that the politics of the old regime are associated with the lack of transparency and
and the sort of machinations of court life, right?
And the new regime, the French revolutionary regime was to be transparent and also male because men, of course, are capable of putting
the interests of the country before their own personal interests, whereas women represent personal interests and these sort of intrigues.
And so she's associated with that intriguing of the old regime, and that's how she and Marie Antoinette become very linked.
They're also associated with the luxury and the spendthrift ways.
So I don't know...
If they would have come looking for her anyway.
It's sort of hard to know.
But her execution is really quite awful because most aristocrats who are executed went to their deaths stoically.
They had been trained in stoicism and they made final decisions.
statements that were moving you know they they did this in a very dignified fashion where she had to be dragged up the stairs and you know was screaming you know don't hurt me what why are you doing this why you know and you know give me a little more time and so and people were really sort of
I sort of wonder if more people had been dragged to their deaths like that, if it would have ended sooner.
I don't know.
It does.
And the viciousness with which they went after her and even after her death and this sort of tragic death, I mean, you see it in the years that follow that once the terror comes to an end in the summer of 1794 and society sort of comes sort of slowly back to normal, the women who are well-known under the directories, it's called, the government that is set up in place,
if they are too politically engaged or if they are too rich or too well-dressed,
They'll call them, they'll refer to them as a dubari, you know, a modern dubari.
And so you see this sort of continuation of the attacks that she's really much, very much associated with the old regime, the decadence of the old regime, the debauchery of the old regime.
And women who are politically active and who are too frivolous, who are too luxurious, they're associated with her.
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