Marie-Antoinette

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly brings up Marie-Antoinette in connection with her farm at the Versailles hamlet, or at Trianon. He sees in it the figure of the dream of a return to nature and of the taste for simple nature, on the eve of the Revolution12. He also reads in it the dream of a class that has reached its limit3, and he takes it as the example of a world, that of high society, when he comments on Clouscard4. He contrasts this farm with the popular park of Ermenonville in a session devoted to Nerval5. A second theme recurs: when people speak ill of the queen, a regime is finished6. He calls "Marie-Antoinette syndrome" the act of attacking the sovereign's wife as if she concentrated all the evil of the regime7. He notes that more was attributed to her than to Louis XVI. He also mentions her in passing: the image of the young Mozart kissing her hand, and an example of films with historical pretensions.

1. 1Mon éco-cabane dans la ZAD : autonomie ou aliénation ? • Q&A Philosophique • Dominique Pagani30 Apr 2021 · 23:57
2. 2Dominique Pagani : De la débauche du sens à l'orgie du sentiment29 May 2023 · 2:29:18
3. 3Dominique Pagani : « Ce qui menace les sociétés, ce sont les hommes et femmes bénéficiaires de l’exploitation des autres »12 Mar 2019 · 2:24:33
4. 4La mondanité chez Clouscard ou "L'idéologie dominante"26 Apr 2023 · 11:02
5. 5#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 31:33
6. 6#2.6 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?1 Aug 2017 · 36:41
7. 7La mondanité chez Clouscard ou "L'idéologie dominante"26 Apr 2023 · 43:13

Summary produced automatically from 11 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.