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Monstre ou martyre?

Une critique du film Marie Antoinette, de Sofia Coppola, par nulle autre que l'intellectuelle "post-féministe" Camille Paglia. Du bonbon…

The Marie Antoinette saga presents daunting problems to any adapter. Where should our sympathies lie: with the plucky, fun-loving 14-year-old girl torn from her home at the Habsburg court in Vienna to serve as a broodmare for French royalty – or with the impoverished French proletariat whose taxes underwrote the ostentatious luxuries of a parasitic aristocracy?

For the past two centuries, views of Marie Antoinette have been sharply polarized: She was either a saint and martyr or a monster and Messalina (one of the many scathing sobriquets flung at her in her lifetime).