Blackmailers made up Marie-Antoinette naughtiness: academic (AFP)

LONDON (AFP) - Marie-Antoinette, France's last queen, owes her reputation for loose living to London-based French blackmailers who made it all up, according to a British academic. "Marie-Antoinette, like Louis XV's mistresses, was the victim of master blackmailers working from London who wrote untrue things in order to get money out of them," Simon Burrows of Leeds University told AFP on Friday. Burrows has written a book about how the blackmailers -- around fifteen of them -- made their living ...