Public Escapes: Opera Balls and Pamphlets

🕯️👑 Marie Antoinette is remembered as history’s most misunderstood queen — blamed for excess, mocked for luxury, and immortalized by a sentence she never actually said. Born into Habsburg royalty and married into a crumbling French monarchy, her life unfolded between glittering palace rituals and a revolution that demanded a scapegoat.

Tonight, drift through Versailles, scandal, silence, and the slow construction of a legend — separating the real woman from the myth that survived her.

👉 Boring History For Sleep | Crowns, consequences, and the quiet after history shouts. 💤