Why Zweig Hugo sympathized with Marie Antoinette

Because many of Marie Antoinette's charges were fictitious, including that she committed adultery with her own son, Marie was certainly a die-hard royalist in the French court at that time, but this is understandable, she was born as an Austrian princess and became the queen of France, she would not think that the abolition of the imperial system was justified; Furthermore, legend has it that Mary's reaction to the lack of food for the poor was to say, "Why not eat cake without bread?" But this is also actually apocryphal, this is a quote from Louis XV's queen from Poland, the original words were:

They don't have bread to eat, so why don't they eat bread crust dips? These were all lies concocted by the revolutionary party at that time in order to stir up public indignation. History has commented on Marie's reaction to the Revolution, and although she had lived a life of luxury, she was more decisive and strong than Louis XVI after the Revolution began, and she had been trying to keep her family, only to be betrayed by the nobles of the court.

I think the reason why Zweig and Hugo sympathized with her was that she was a victim of the French Revolution, and that in their eyes the revolutionary party was no more noble than Mary, and that they were more motivated by their own self-interest, and that they did not do the lower classes much good. There are also some points about Mary, which are available in the encyclopedia, and you can check them out for yourself.

As a queen, is there a problem with being a staunch royalist?

The French Revolution was like a tsunami, the French royal family was actually the same as the people who are being demolished now, and Queen Mary was the guardian of that storm, the only man in the whole Versailles.

Now France has rehabilitated her, what doesn't eat bread and eats cake, what adultery, what luxury, most of them are dirty water to add to her sin.

Why doesn't a person who needs to rely on fabricated charges to be convicted and executed on a basis deserve sympathy?

Recommend Antonia Fraser's book Marie Antoinette: The Journey, which can be searched on Amazon China. This book restores MA's life with a large number of historical materials, and is a serious and rigorous historical work, without wild history.

If you want to have an objective and comprehensive understanding of MA, then this book is a must-read.

She colluded with Austria to provide the battle plan to foreign intervention forces in an attempt to suppress the revolution through external forces.

Collusion with Austria to provide war plans to foreign intervention forces