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Despite her attempts to remain out of the public eye, she was falsely accused in the libelles of having an affair with the commander of the Garde Nationale, the marquis de La Fayette.

In reality, she loathed the marquis for his liberal tendencies and for being partially responsible for the royal family's forced departure from Versailles.

This was not the only accusation Marie Antoinette faced from such " libelles.

" In such pamphlets as " Le Godmiché Royal ", ( translated, " The Royal Dildo "), it was suggested that she routinely engaged in deviant sexual acts of various sorts, most famously with the English Baroness ' Lady Sophie Farrell ' of Bournemouth, a renowned lesbian of the time.

From acting as a tribade, ( in her case in the lesbian sense ), to sleeping with her son, Marie Antoinette was constantly an object of rumor and false accusations of committing sexual acts with partners other than the king.

Later, allegations of this sort ( from incest to orgiastic excesses ) were used to justify her execution.

Ultimately, none of the charges of sexual depravity have any credible evidentiary support.

Marie Antoinette was simply an easy target for rumor and criticism.