Marie Antoinette's

In the news today Prince Sixte-Henri de Bourbon (you may know him as Louis XIV's heir) has moved forward to sue Versailles.  All the trouble has been stirred over the recent shows held at the palace which feature modern artists.  The current show that is causing a stir is that of Takashi Murakami, which opened September 12.  The Prince heads the group Coordination de la Défense de Versailles, and the lawsuit is targeted at the exhibition coordinators. 

"In the suit, the royalists allege that the château of Versailles is the intellectual property of Louis XIV and his descendants and that the display of Murakami's artwork infringes on their rights."

It will be interesting to see the outcome of this case!  Have you been to Versailles to see any of the modern shows hosted there?  The previous show featured work by Jeff Koons.

If you have been following the Marie Antoinette spike on Twitter, it is largely due to a recent controversy over the First Lady, Michelle Obama.  In a recent piece in the NY Daily News, she has been compared to the famous Queen of France.

"Instead, Michelle Obama seems more like a modern-day Marie Antoinette - the French queen who spent extravagantly on clothes and jewels without a thought for her subjects' plight - than an average mother of two. While she's spent her time in the White House telling parents they should relieve their chubby kids' dependency on sugar and stressing the importance of an organic veggie garden, hopping a jet to Europe to meet with Spanish royalty isn't the visual the White House probably wants to project."

Read the full piece here: Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacation