Professor Christine Adams
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They continue to sort of draw that connection.
He becomes a revolutionary.
When he shows up to testify, he's wearing the hat, the red hat that the revolutionaries wear.
But I can't remember what happens to him after that.
Jacques Levin's book, Le Destin de Madame du Bac, he talks in detail about the trial and about Zambour's testimony.
I think he talks specifically about her trip to England and that she was a royalist.
She's buried in the same cemetery as Marie Antoinette was dumped into.
Now, Marie Antoinette's body was later dug up and she was reinterred in Saint-Denis, which is where all the kings and queens are buried, in the crypt underneath the Royal Abbey Church.
But I don't know if her body was recuperated after the revolution.
But yeah, they did just sort of dump them into these public cemeteries.
Right, right.
I mean, I guess it's...
Short term, long term?
No, I mean, the short term, her legacy was a sort of the symbol of the wicked woman, right?
And Gracchus Babouf, who was a communist, actually, who sort of, in 1795 and 1796, tries to foment a sort of revolutionary activity.
He wants to bring back the sort of old constitution and sort of implement a more sort of communistic system in France.
He particularly goes after Dubarry and sees her as the symbol of everything that's evil and says that, you know, the happiest day for the French was when she was executed.
You know, he calls her Venus Dubarry.
So you do see this sort of a really negative legacy in the years immediately after the terror attacks.
But, you know, and that continues into the 19th century.
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