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marieantoinetteposting · 5 months

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As I've been given an opportunity to write about important figures of the Enlightenment, I though it would be interesting to write about someone who indirectly set my reputation in stone in the modern age.

During my time, libelles were quite popular among the lower class in France. They were pamphlets, short or long essays, drawings, any kind of way of spreading a message. What sucks about these is that they were a way to spread political opinions and false rumours! I was the target for many libelles during my reign, many of them containing pornographic images or rumours. People thought I had done horrible things to my children and had affairs with other men and my friends. These were the ways my reputation in the 18th century was ruined, alongside me being an Austrian in France as well as being a woman.

But how does Rousseau have anything to do with this you might be wondering? Rousseau's impact on my reputation has lived long after these libelles and public opinions faded away. He wrote a book called Confessions, an autobiography covering many years of his life. Within this book was a quote from an unnamed person who had told peasants "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche" during a time of famine throughout the country. Absolutely no where does it say that I said this! This quote has been thoughtlessly attached to my name for centuries thanks to Rousseau's writing.

- Marie Antoinette __________________

#rousseau

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marieantoinetteposting · 5 months

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Voici, All the Drama!!

You're going to want some maïs soufflé for this one because this scandal is crazy.

So get this. These two Parisian jewelers made this gorgeous diamond necklace with the intention of selling it to King Louis XV to give to his wife Madame Du Barry. Ironically, they finished the necklace when my husband exiled Madame Du Barry following the death of Louis XV. Now these jewelers were left with a costly necklace they could not sell so they tried to sell it to me! Why would I ever want to wear a necklace intended for Madame Du Barry of all people?

This drama also involves Cardinal Louis de Rohan, a womanizing scumbag that both my mother and I agree is completely immoral. He fell for a scheme put together by Jeanne de la Motte. Rohan must not think very far because Jeanne has been scheming and lying before this incident, she has fainted for money and attention before!

So because Rohan cared so much about our relationship, Jeanne's plan revolved around patching up Rohan's troubles. She has never spoken to me before but Rohan believed her when she said she could fix what has happened. Jeanne, her husband and her pimp, Villette put together a way to trick Rohan into getting Jeanne the diamond necklace through me, which by the way I have not had the necklace in my possession throughout this entire ordeal.

Firstly, Jeanne got Rohan to meet with who he thought was me but was secretly a prostitute (how insulting) at midnight. The darkness covered the prostitute, Nicole d'Olivia, so that Rohan would think she was me. When Nicole d'Olivia made it seem as if I forgave him, Rohan was more than ready to do anything for me. Jeanne convinced Rohan to purchase the diamond necklace with a forged letter I had sent to Jeanne telling Rohan that I wanted him to buy the necklace for me.

Rohan bought the necklace for me and was ready to give it to me. Jeanne's pimp, pretending to work for me, took the necklace to give to me. He ended up taking it with him to Jeanne and her husband to take apart the jewels within the necklace to sell for a large amount of money. Not knowing this, Rohan was expecting to see me wear the necklace. Being unable to wear smashed up pieces of jewels I never owned, Rohan was never able to see me wear the necklace.

Upset by this as well as payments that went unpaid, the jewel makers revealed to Madame Campan that they had been dealing with Rohan and that he had not yet paid for a portion of the payment process. Madame Campan told me about the situation and my husband, Louis the XVI called Rohan to Versailles where he would explain his side of the story and realize that he had been a part of a scandal.

This is a part of the story I truly do not understand, me and my husband as innocent bystanders became the bad guys! Rohan was arrested and sent to Bastille where the public would start to side with him. Jeanne and her husband, Villette and Nicole d'Olivia were arrested as well. Villette was exiled from France, Jeanne's husband became a slave and Jeanne was publicly whipped and sent to prison.

After all of this, it's my reputation that's been stained forever by this scandal!! People have always been making up rumours about me and spreading lies across the world. "My" little midnight meeting with that awful Cardinal de Rohan became one of the largest spreading rumours about me. Isn't that terrible? The people who did this to me were arrested but all the people still believe I was the one who was there. >:(

#marie antoinette #france #scandal

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John Locke et Thomas Hobbes, lequel ?

I've been asked to share my opinions on whether I agree with Hobbes or Locke. . . I'll share if I must.

Between the two, I must say I agree more with the politics of Thomas Hobbes. As I have recently been through a time of revolution and borderline anarchy, Hobbes' thoughts have been echoed in my recent writing.

I wrote to my brother Leopold II recently describing my fears regarding this revolution. In this letter I wrote "[France] will be in a deplorable state, and crime and murder will enter into people's houses and no citizen will be assured of surviving from one day to the next [...]", this statement of mine I find reflects the quote from Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan "Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war is of every man against every man . . . In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: [...] and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death". I feel as if this civil war will cause destruction and agony across France, it seems to be that Thomas Hobbes would agree with me.

Now to share my opinions on John Locke, I cannot say that I agree with some of Locke's politics. I simply believe that if the people of France would let the king provide them with safety that all would be well again, but Locke argues that "[...] in the consent of the people, which being the only one of all lawful governments, [...]". With the times that we are living in here in France, I most certainly say that consent of the governed is a much smaller priority than their safety.

Here is my final answer to the question of whether I agree with Hobbes or Locke more. Thomas Hobbes shares the fears I have recently grown regarding the French Revolution and overall my political opinions.

- Marie Antoinette _________________

#thomas hobbes #john locke

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