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Joseph Ducreux After French, 1735-1802, Marie Antoinette as a Young Girl. Dates not recorded, oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Bos...
He doesn't look very creole to me, nevertheless i should like to have locked mouths with him all the same!
ReplyDeleteShe was not one of my favorites. Didn't she have an affair with Louis VI? I read that in Susan Nagels's book about Marie-Therese. Though,another book I read about Marie Antoinette, said nothing about the subject.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking , loyalty was not so huge back in the 1700s
How bad is bad? (Not that I want to know....)
ReplyDeleteAnd her hat looks quite nice with his outfit.
Ya know, next to each other they're kind of a cute couple!
ReplyDeleteAren't they? They were an official item, in fact she could not resist him. He was quite charismatic, dare I say, a ladies man??
ReplyDeleteVickie, Nagel only supposes Louis XVI was Polignac's lover at one point. Apparently a chambermaid was also enjoyed his charms. No scholars (reputable or otherwise)have ever made such ludicrous suggestions and I don't think Nagel names any new source(s) for this guesswork.
ReplyDeleteSeems like he was quite the ladies man! Scandelous!
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