María Antonieta

Marie Antoinette of Austria, queen of France and consort of Louis XVI, has gone down in history as a spendthrift, manipulative, superficial and insensitive monarch to the sufferings of her people. In fact, in the construction of her figure, the anecdote is always used in which, given the general lack of bread in Paris, the queen replied "let them eat cakes", a rudeness that would have served by itself to justify any social revolt. in a convulsive time, built on inequality. However, how much truth is there in this cruel portrait of the last queen of France? Was Marie Antoinette the victim of a smear campaign carried out by the pamphleteers of the Revolution?