Professor Christine Adams
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I mean, the French historians of the 19th century or people who write about France in the 19th century, they continue to blame Pompadour, Dubarry, the sort of corruption of these women for bringing down the regime, essentially.
So that is very much her legacy, I'd say, into the 20th century, that it's not a positive one.
She is seen in this extremely negative fashion as somebody who is responsible for the corruption that brought down the old regime.
And so whether you are somebody who is pro-revolution or anti-revolution, they can all agree on these women are responsible, right?
It's their fault.
Today, you know, there's quite a few
biographies of her that draw on all the usual tropes right there's there's quite a few of these sort of romanticized biographies of her and some of them are are sympathetic but even the ones that are sympathetic they they criticize her for all they'll say well you know despite her sluttiness she was really a nice person or you know something something along those lines right
They see her sexual misbehavior as something that's relevant.
I think today, anybody who would seriously look at her would say maybe...
not politically smart to have been such a, to be running through money so fast, the public's money.
But I don't know.
I'm sort of sympathetic to, I mean, women didn't have, were not dealt a great hand of cards in the 18th century.
No, and she played hers spectacularly well.
She uses her erotic capital.
Yeah.
She uses her physical attractiveness.
She's pretty smart.
I mean, she's criticized sometimes for not being very smart, but she's pretty savvy.
And so she uses these skills to try to make a comfortable life for herself.
It's complicated when you try to impose our...
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