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For Queen and Country: Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun’s Portrait of Marie-Antoinette with Her Children - Page 3

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Notes

(1) Olwen Hufton, Women and the Limits of Citizenship in France (Toronto, 1992): 15.

(2) Lynn Hunt, "The Bad Mother." The Family Romance of the French Revolution (London, 1992): 99.

(3) Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society 3rd ed. (London, 2002): 169.

(4) Lynn Hunt, "The Many Bodies of Marie-Antoinette: Political Pornography and the Problem of the Feminine in the French Revolution." Erotocism and the Body Politic ed. Lynn Hunt. (Baltimore, 1991): 109.

(5) Qtd. in Chadwick, 169.

(6) Given the status of women at this time, this quest to improve the queen's image was most likely for the sake of the Bourbon monarchy, rather than her own.

(7) Chadwick, 169.

(8) Ibid.

(9) Ibid., 170.

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1. May 10, 2004 2:34 PM
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