Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints) mentioned The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon by Robert Darnton 1 times

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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon by Robert Darnton
  1. The historian Robert Darnton called it an "avalanche of defamation" that "has no parallel in the history of vilification." This woman took the blame, the moral blame, for the structural failings of a broken economic system. And by the time she was brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal in 1793, the actual person Marie Antoinette had long ago been overshadowed by the libelous caricature of her.

    — Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

    2021-08-07 on youtube.com