2013年に書いたマリー・アントワネットの女官長のマリー・ルイーズのことを、「マリー・アントワネットを最後まで守ろうとして最後には市民に虐殺された悲劇のヒロイン」という話をそのまま信じて書きました。
マリー・アントワネットとフランス革命の女官長マリー・ルイーズ、そして現代
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/afternoon-tea-club-2/e/af909a7fa75d3e0b351a4b26df0eb928
しかし、「そのマリー・ルイーズの美談は、本当のことなのだろうか？」と、フランス革命のことを調べれば調べるほど疑問に思えてきます。
18世紀フランスのフリーメイソングランドマスターだったオルレアン公はどのような人物だったか
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/afternoon-tea-club-2/e/bfbbc745952aa19499ec20da4a435766
マリー・ルイーズの英語版ウィキペディアには、①マリールイーズが、ポリニャック伯爵夫人と大差ないことをしていたこと、②マリー・アントワネットの母親マリア・テレジアが、マリー・ルイーズがサヴォイア家の利益のためにマリー・アントワネットの友情を利用しているのではと案じていたたこともあります。
また、彼女は彼女の義理の妹（マリー・アントワネットの中傷を繰り返し、フランス革命の立役者の一人ともいわれたオルレアン公ルイ・フィリップ2世の妻）とフリーメイソン女性ロッジに入会。
フランスと敵対していた英国ともズブズブでした。
（マリー・ルイーズのお舅ルイ・ジャン・マリー・ブルボンとマリー・ルイーズは大変親しいのですが、そもそもこの舅は、なぜに自分の娘アデレードをオルレアン公に嫁がせたのでしょうか？）
マリー・ルイーズの話は、やはり美化されていると思います。
以下英語版と日本語版ウィキペディアのリンクです。日本語版は美化版。イタリア語版やフランス語版はどうなっていますか。
Wikipedia
Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Th%C3%A9r%C3%A8se_Louise_of_Savoy,_Princesse_de_Lamballe
（ウィキペディア
ランバル公妃マリー・ルイーズ
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%AB%E5%85%AC%E5%A6%83%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA）
英語版ウィキペディアから抜粋：
（前略）
In 1768, at the age of nineteen, Marie Thérèse became a widow when her husband died of a venereal disease at the Château de Louveciennes, nursed by his spouse and sister. She inherited her husband's considerable fortune, making her wealthy in her own right. Her father-in-law successfully persuaded her to abandon her wish to become a nun and instead stay with him as his daughter. She comforted him in his grief, and joined him in his extensive charitable projects at Rambouillet, an activity which earned him the name "King of the Poor" and her the nickname "The Angel of Penthiévre".
（中略）
"Her Majesty continually sees the Princesse de Lamballe in her rooms [...] This lady joins to much sweetness a very sincere character, far from intrigue and all such worries. The Queen has conceived for some time a real friendship for this young Princess, and the choice is excellent, for although a Piedmontese, Madame de Lamballe is not at all identified with the interests of Mesdames de Provence and d'Artois. All the same, I have taken the precaution to point out to the Queen that her favour and goodness to the Princesse de Lamballe are somewhat excessive, in order to prevent abuse of them from that quarter."
Empress Maria Theresa tried to discourage the friendship out of fear that Lamballe, as a former princess of Savoy, would try to benefit Savoyan interest through the queen. During her first year as queen, Marie Antoinette reportedly said to Louis XVI, who himself was very approving of her friendship with Lamballe: "Ah, sire, the Princesse de Lamballe's friendship is the charm of my life." Lamballe welcomed her brothers at court, and upon the queen's wish, Lamballe's favorite brother Eugène was granted a lucrative post with his own regiment in the French army to please his sister; later, Lamballe was also granted the governorship of Poitiou for her brother-in-law by the queen.
Princesse de Lamballe was described as proud, sensitive and with a delicate though irregular beauty. Not a wit and not one to participate in plots, she was able to amuse Marie Antoinette, but she was of a reclusive nature and preferred to spend time with the queen alone rather than to participate in high society: she suffered from what was described as "nerves, convulsions, fainting-fits", and could reportedly faint and remain unconscious for hours. The office of Superintendent required that she confirmed all orders regarding the queen before they could be performed, that all letters, petitions, or memoranda to the queen was to be channeled through her, and that she entertain in the name of the queen. The office aroused great envy and insulted a great number of people at court because of the precedence in rank it gave. It also gave the enormous salary of 50,000 crowns a year, and because of the condition of the state's economy and the great wealth of Lamballe, she was asked to renounce the salary. When she refused for the sake of rank and stated that she would either have all the privileges of the office or retire, she was granted the salary by the queen: this incident aroused much bad publicity and Lamballe was painted as a greedy royal favorite, and her famous fainting spells widely mocked as manipulative simulations. She was openly talked about as the favorite of the queen, and was greeted almost as visiting royalty when she traveled around the country during her free time, and had poems dedicated to her.
In 1775, however, Lamballe was gradually replaced in her position as the favorite of the queen by Yolande de Polastron, duchesse de Polignac.
（中略）
De Lamballe as well as her sister-in-law became inducted in the Freemasonic women's Adoption Lodge of St. Jean de la Candeur in 1777, and was made Grand Mistress of the Scottish Lodge, the head of all the Lodges of Adoption, in January 1781: though Marie Antoinette did not become a formal member, she was interested in Freemasonry and often asked Lamballe of the Adoption Lodge. During the famous Affair of the Diamond Necklace, Lamballe was seen in an unsuccessful attempt to visit the imprisoned Jeanne de la Motte at La Salpetriere; the purpose of this visit is unknown, but it created widespread rumors at the time.
（中略）
De Lamballe had long suffered from a weak health, which deteriorated so much during the mid 1780s that she was often unable to perform the duties of her office; at one occasion, she even engaged Deslon, a pupil of Mesmer, to magnetize her. She spent the summer of 1787 in England, advised by doctors to take the English waters in Bath to cure her health. This trip was much publicized as a secret diplomatic mission on behalf of the queen, with speculations that she was to ask the exiled Minister Calonne to omit certain incidents from the memoirs he was about to publish, but Calonne was in fact not in England at that time.
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