Professor Christine Adams
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first heard Jun 2026
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And they also make her look sort of petty and nasty.
And that also is not the case.
Yeah.
I mean, she was quite generous towards most of her enemies.
Oh, really?
The one exception, perhaps, is the Duke of Choiseul.
He was one of the top officials at court when she first arrived, and he had hoped to place a different woman as the king's mistress so he would have more influence.
And as it turns out, Dubarry's protectors are his rivals.
And so she gets caught up in these political rivalries.
And so Choiseul is very unpleasant to her.
If he had just been nice, I mean, she would undoubtedly have been willing to work with him.
Because he's not, she gets involved with the political intrigues that push him out by 1770.
But no, she's somebody that universally people say she's nice.
Okay, that's interesting.
The Austrian ambassador, when he's trying to persuade Marie Antoinette to be a little more polite to her, he says, you know, she's not someone of elevated birth, and maybe not so smart, but she doesn't seem unpleasant.
If you're just nice to her, she will...
come around to your side, essentially.
And it's very difficult to find somebody who will actually present her at court.
Because she's not noble.
No.
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