Time and time again, history books use Marie Antoinette as a scapegoat to justify the horrors and excesses of the French Revolution, which, after all, was only a more radical French version of our own American Revolution that “liberated” the people from the evils of monarchy. Marie Antoinette, contrary to most beliefs, was in fact aristocratic, generous, compassionate, and courageous; it was precisely because of those traits that she became the target of the lies and defamation campaigns of the revolution. The false image of the heartless Queen bent only on satisfying her whims and passions was artificially created for posterity, included in history books with the aim of etching this image into young malleable minds. Such a process leaves deep, long-lived impressions, difficult to erase.