Documentary about Marie Antoinette shows that the fraudulent populism we associate with Donald Trump has deep roots

Mas the execution of the heroine of liberty Joan of Arc is a blemish on the French monarchy, the execution of Queen Marie Antoinette is one on the French republic. Whereas the first became the patron saint of the entire nation, the second is only a martyr for the hardcore royalists.

True, Marie Antoinette never uttered the famously winged words about eating cakes instead of bread, but she lived exorbitantly extravagantly while people suffered want and fatally starved. She was too fond of expensive jewels and too preoccupied with expensive fashion clothes.