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French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron in London last July. Photo: Getty

French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron in London last July. Photo: Getty

As the late queen Marie Antoinette found to her cost, first ladies of France are always going to be trolled mercilessly.

The Habsburg monarch was pilloried in hundreds of scurrilous publications — accusations against her included incest, theft and organising illegal orgies — before a trial in October 1793.