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in the eighteenth century is that she took a couple of these examples,
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and shows the way in which private affairs that were kind of sleazy
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and not too cool--but were sensational--helped bring these threads together
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and contributed to kind of erode the prestige of the monarchy.
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This fits into the sense that I've already given you
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that was extremely pervasive, particularly around Paris is
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that a lot of things that went on at Versailles weren't so good.
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The 10,000 nobles who were clustered around Louis XVI
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and particularly his wife were undermining the authority
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and the prestige of the monarchy, and that wasn't a good thing.
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An incident called "The Diamond Necklace Affair"
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is illustrative and mildly amusing, not more than that.