tiny-librarian:On quite a different level the scabrous pamphlets attacking the Queen were also bests
tiny-librarian:On quite a different level the scabrous pamphlets attacking the Queen were also bestsellers. Drink, lesbianism, sexual voracity generally (“three quarters of the officers of the Gardes Francaises had penetrated the Queen”), were featured as before in works such as The Memoirs of Antonia, printed in London in two volumes. Here, due to the demands of such numbers on her time, she was described as preferring lovers in the style of a grenadier “who abridges preliminaries and hastens to the conclusion.”Marie Antoinette, The Journey - Antonia Fraserok so the next time someone claims everyone was prudish in the past I’m just going to hand them a picture of Marie Antoinette petting a giant penis with legs that’s spouting confetti -- source link
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