Sunday, August 23, 2020

More about Louis and Antoinette's Relationship

Continuing the discussion on BlogTalkRadio in which I analyze Queen Marie-Antoinette's relationship with her husband Louis XVI. The two teenagers first met hours before their wedding, endured many trials and humiliations together, and grew into a devoted couple who could only be separated by death. Was Louis really an ungracious dolt, incapable of being a true husband? Was he himself so completely unlovable as he has often been described? Did sexual frustration drive the Queen to spend money, which is the typical Freudian interpretation? Such questions and more will be explored, based upon scholarship, both old and new. Part One is HERE. Part Two, HERE.

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

Freud was very sexist.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

I see you write about their conjugal relationship, and not on their relatedness - both descend from James VI & I through his daughter, the wife of the Winter King.

Φιλολoγικά/Philologica : Sur les Dévanceurs de Marie-Antoinette & Et les ancêtres du roi martyr? Regardons aussi la parité entre les sexes ... ou même le privilège féminin