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It was the limeys wot did fer Marie-Antionette!

 
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Big_Bird



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:44 pm    Post subject: It was the limeys wot did fer Marie-Antionette! Reply with quote
Marie Antoinette: a woman wronged by cunning English blackmailers

� Obscene papers found by Bastille mob in cruel twist
� UK professor's theory puts blame on London gang

Martin Wainwright
Friday September 29, 2006
The Guardian


The stories are part of the fabric of the French Revolution: a country rose up to challenge the extravagance of the French court, enraged, in part, by claims of Queen Marie Antoinette's sexually depraved behaviour. The final straw was her quip to "let them eat cake" during a bread shortage. But the lurid tales of bestiality, nymphomania and lesbianism - soon to be the focus of a new Hollywood movie - may have been just that. Myths that have no truth. The queen probably never uttered those notorious words either.

A leading expert on the era has uncovered evidence to show that the stories of Marie Antoinette's behaviour were cooked up by London criminals who blackmailed the French royal family.

Pamphlets

They printed the claims in pamphlets, then threatened to send them to France. Louis XVI paid them off in return for the destruction of the papers. But Simon Burrows of Leeds University has found that a fatally efficient bureaucrat filed copies in the Bastille, which were reprinted by the hundred thousand after the prison was stormed in 1789.

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Moldy Rutabaga



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PostPosted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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But the lurid tales of bestiality, nymphomania and lesbianism - soon to be the focus of a new Hollywood movie - may have been just that.

Because no one would of course waste time making a movie on some boring old broad who lived hundreds of years ago unless there's raunchy sex -- wait a minute, I smell miracles. Sheesh. Hollywood. Always appealing to our best instincts.

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