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FWIG part of Antoinette's unpopularity stemmed from the fact that it took forever before she and her husband consummated their marriage. And then some more time before she did her duty to France and gave birth to a dauphin.

Say she'd gotten pregnant in the first 18months of her marriage. Obviously this means that her husband doesn't just say "Good night" and go off to dreamland on their wedding night. Which means this might be near-ASB, but IIRC there were cartoons of Louis XVI showing him as a drunkard OTL. So maybe one night he gets the beer goggles on and goes in?

The baby doesn't need to survive (one only needs to look at her Bourbon-married sisters: Marie Amalie (4 of her 9 kids survived infancy, 2 were stillborn, and 2 didn't make the age of 5) and Marie Karoline had 11 of her 18 kids die before reaching adulthood. So even if these kids born before 1778 (Marie Thérèse's birthyear) don't live past a few years of life (her mother-in-law had likewise had a problem with miscarriages/stillbirths (12 pregnancies, of which the ones in 1748, '49, '52 and '56 all ended in miscarriages/stillbirths, while a further 3 kids born alive died young (5months, 5years and 9years old respectively)), would this impact Antoinette any? Especially if she gets a son first time around?
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