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In a series of pamphlets written from the 1770s until her death in 1793, Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as a spendthrift, a libertine, an orgiastic lesbian, and a poisoner and infant murderess. In her analyses of these pamphlets, seven of which appear here in translation for the first time, Thomas reconstructs how the mounting hallucinatory and libelous discourse culminated in the inevitable destruction of what had become the counterrevolutionary symbol par excellence. The Wicked Queen exposes the elaborate process by which the myth of Marie-Antoinette emerged as a crucial element in the successful staging of the French Revolution.
Chantal Thomas is a researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. She is the author of Marquis de Sade, L’Oeil de la lettre (1978) ,Sade (1994), and Casanova, un voyage libertin (1985).
"This lively and original book opens a window onto a timely and always controversial issue: the uses of pornography to undermine a political regime. Thomas offers a brilliant and provocative analysis of the techniques of scurrilous pamphleteering and shows how every aspect of Marie-Antoinette's life from her hairdos to her choice of female friends became fodder for the pornographic imagination." --Lynn Hunt
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