If Marie Antoinette Had Not Been Guillotined

If Marie Antoinette had not been guillotined I think she would have faded from history along with a myriad other Royal personages.

But she was guillotined, and she gave rise to the Marie Antoinette style that has carried through to fashion up to today. And it was all on show at the Victoria & Albert Museum with an exhibition devoted to her with her dresses and shoes, and the story of her life and the very blade that took her life.

But what else was on show were scurrilous little books with drawings of her being penetrated in her boudoir by soldiers, with her genitalia exposed, and others showing her fingering her lover's member.

In the lead up to the revolution it was all designed to make her more vulnerable to attack.

And that reminds me of the post in the news today that portrayed the Obamas as monkeys, designed to make them less human, less estimable, more easy to attack.