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  • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Marie "Dress budget larger than entire provinces" Antoinette is actually just being scapegoated for decadence!

    • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      AKSHUALLY her primary extravagance was her hairdresser, who became the equivalent of a millionaire and bought like... opera houses... with the money he got from her. His primary job was to cover up her balding and thin hair (Which tbf must suck as a queen) with extravagant nonsense.

        • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Fake news. She had an entire village built in her backyard, including a mill, a manor house with a boudoir, a dairy, a barn, a dovecote and an associated pointless marble decorative building in the style of a shrine to aphrodite.

            • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              Only insofar as you consider the "Queen’s House" a palace. The place is called "Hameau de la Reine" (The queen's village"). The entire thing is built around a lake with a bunch of purpose built cottages, and is entirely ludicrous.

              It also fit within one corner of her backyard

              • Rodentsteak [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                And once again I want to emphasise that it was a fully functioning farm with full time staff to maintain it, with a herd of cows, pigs, various fowl, and a field which supplied fruit to the palace, and it was in one corner of her backyard.

        • cilantrofellow [any]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          This is why I fight for FALGSC, so we can all know that joy.

        • shitstorm [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          Versailles famously smelled like shit all the time. They just let wild exotic animals walk around the outside all the time.