The overly pampered rich leftists do this today. “See, we’re just like you (dirty smelly peasants) simple folk (stay away....you disease infested scum of fly over country).
As in Kirsten Dunst's Antoinette, on her wedding night, with the cabal of official "marriage certifiers" looking on.
Antoinette made popular regular baths, of a sort. She wore some sort of outfit for her more than once weekly baths.
An early French Disneyland for the royals.
“Escape from what must have been the stifling and intrusive court at the main palace.”
Yes, with all the pressure she needed an escape to keep from losing her head.
The US version is in Chapaqua NY.
Not impressed. The design is all over the place— Roman arches, the tower looks like something I saw in Sicily, the Loggia belongs in southern Germany not northern France.
The French have their sense of taste. She probably got executed for violating it as much as anything else. Based on what I see here, she deserved it.
She had an inferiority complex. She was height challenged and wore high heels