Marie Antoinette Is Alive and Still Spending

Evening Standard - London › October 31, 2006

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BARBARA Amiel Black has published a riveting defence of Marie Antoinette - or, rather, of women "too big for their many shoes" who are, she thinks, unfairly punished for their extravagance.

Lady Black, who once dressed up as Marie Antoinette (only the dates reassure us that it wasn't the other way round), provides a defiant defence of conspicuous consumption for a woman whose husband is facing a possible jail sentence in the US for fraud.

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Marie Antoinette Is Alive and Still Spending

But Marie Antoinette syndrome is not confined to aristocrats asking for trouble or their latter-day heirs with ...

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