
How Do You Solve a Problem like Marie Antoinette?
I think there was a time when every person in the world knew who Marie Antoinette was. The ill-fated queen, who was so savagely dispatched via guillotine, had a hold on students of history, moviegoers, fashion designers, and the public at large. Two centuries after her execution, she was still a household name and her death was known by ghoulish girls and boys alike. (Think about The Addams Family TV show and its running visual gag of Wednesday Addams and her decaptitated bab