![]() ![]() Reinvention and Marie Antoinette go together like cake and frosting. What these complaints overlook is that, throughout history, one thing has always remained true of Marie Antoinette: With her glittering rise and shattering fall, her ambiguous political allegiances and unmistakable personal style, the queen has proven multifaceted enough to accommodate most any interpretation, any ideology, any cultural bias. Like the Cannes audiences who blasted Kirsten Dunst as the vapid, pampered party queen in Sofia Coppola's "Marie Antoinette," my interviewer seemed indignant that an American-born author of a book on the same historical figure would dare lay claim to this quintessentially French icon. ![]() ![]() 'Why," the French journalist wanted to know, "do you Americans insist on taking what is France's and making it yours?" ![]()
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