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Chanced upon a Breguet ad on the backpage of this week's Time magazine, and the tagline went like this: If you own a Breguet, you can register your name with Churchill's Napoleon's or Marie-Antoinette's...
Okay, Churchill's great. Napoleon, maybe, kinda depends on your perspective. But Marie-Antoinette? Louis XVI's wife who was better known as the Austrian Whore during her time? Who led an extravagant lifestyle, was known for her utter lack of compassion for the people, who was unfaithful to her husband and who ultimately ended up on the headless to the cheers of the people on the gullotine?
If you have to come up with three great names that wore ur watches, and the third best person that you can come up with is Marie-Antoinette, I'm guessing your brand's pretty screwed up. They even called her a 'great figure of history'. I guess the writers of the ad were getting pretty desperate.
I realise that this entry might seem completely random. Then again, that's probably what EU1101E does to you. T_T
Okay, Churchill's great. Napoleon, maybe, kinda depends on your perspective. But Marie-Antoinette? Louis XVI's wife who was better known as the Austrian Whore during her time? Who led an extravagant lifestyle, was known for her utter lack of compassion for the people, who was unfaithful to her husband and who ultimately ended up on the headless to the cheers of the people on the gullotine?
If you have to come up with three great names that wore ur watches, and the third best person that you can come up with is Marie-Antoinette, I'm guessing your brand's pretty screwed up. They even called her a 'great figure of history'. I guess the writers of the ad were getting pretty desperate.
I realise that this entry might seem completely random. Then again, that's probably what EU1101E does to you. T_T
2 Comments:
actually marie-antoinette was not as shallow as popular accounts portray her to be. even though she did lead an extravagantly lavish lifestyle at a time when most of her people were struggling to get by, she was famous for bowing in apology to the masses who were about to burn down to the palace to protect her children inside.
I never knew that. But I suppose we do learn new stuff everyday. Thanks for the insight.
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