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MerryBlooms

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Sat Oct 17, 2015, 07:51 PM Oct 2015

Gilt by Association

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The Marie Antoinette cliché is easy to not just summon, but accessorize: there is the pouf, the diamond necklace, the dressmaker’s bills, and the toy farm. There is the fat husband, the overbearing mother, and the dashing Swedish count. And then there are the turns of phrase both too flippant and too penitent to really be believed: “let them eat cake,” as she presumably nibbled her own, and “forgive me, sir, I did not mean to do it,” as she stepped on her executioner’s foot. The former is almost certainly apocryphal, the latter is harder to confirm or disprove. The words are vague enough to imagine Marie Antoinette accepting her guilt, no matter the accusation.



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