Public dislike of Louis and Marie-Antoinette, however, fanned the flames and eventually cost the royal pair their heads.
Traditional wisdom portrayed the king, who took seven years to consummate the marriage, as weak and sexually impotent. As a result, the queen supposedly was promiscuous. Vicious rumors about the royals hit the streets, portraying them as symbols of the aristocracy's moral corruption. It inflamed the already-angry crowds...."
"...In a new 700-page biography, "Marie-Antoinette: The Rebel," Simone Bertiere concludes that the king and queen were, indeed, sexually incompatible.
But it wasn't a matter of impotence. Rather, the king's royal endowment and the queen's narrow aperture made both avoid sexual intercourse because it was painful."
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