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a party in the conference room for Sir Darras birthday right we'll get some mistake. It is really good luck garden. I wait so it's in there
and ass somebody, I think I was Katy Lambert, says let them taken
can jokingly so eyes
the clambered. I says be careful because the last person who said that heritage
her off. We think
That's not true. I mean it's gonna get thing to say and I am sure people asked politely, but it's not true. I going to get a point where there was a boner locating areas better, so she was humoring. You will know, I'm Marie Antoinette Sarah and for saying they storm. The best deal incur head off how wrong and wrong Enron worker filmy and miss. I know everything about the french Revolution either friend, if I like everything at it, Anne Marie Antoinette ways actually about ten years old. When that phrase,
Pierre de Jean Jacques Rousseau's confessions and supposedly he either turn the phrase himself or he got.
From Maria Theresa who was married to King levied a fourteenth and if she
I did say at which was just a rumour. She
then saying not literally let them eat like the vanilla climate, the sugar farmers that you have by brioche wages
play an egg based Brad isn't much worse than the case I have
you mean tasting I'd, prefer
other sugary kind, like a nice big, Irish Brian. She now at a birthday party, perhaps not anyway, the point being from an economical standpoint or is it was a pretty wisely
to say well, she was all she was referring to this law in France that dictated by what prizes bakers could saw their brand.
Yes, the French, bigger law,
Anyway, you laugh it it's true. I do now. If you worth, I didn't
here? I laugh at everything now anyway, so the law wise you had to sell your fancier Brad's, like you, know your brioche at the same price as your cheaper flour and water lives. If that supply ran out
The cheaper ones ran out, yes, said
the peasants got the good stuff at the same price right, it seems.
We say yes to the peasants, didn't go hungry, so the story behind the false dichotomy. Cake thing was that the people on
as for starving in Hungary, Marie Antoinette supposedly said.
Let me take what really would have happened if Maria Theresa did say it was she heard that the peasants were
in starving she said well. If there is no bread, then let them have the brioche at the same cost, an area
sweet little story? Isn't that drivers this heart warned? Ok, so that's fiction yeah! Well, that's like, though.
The few things I know about Marie Antoinette, but
Do you know? That's not the only scandal. This woman was a very scandalous figure right. I mean she was there when the French revolted overthrew the monarchy and establish their own system of government right yeah. It was in part because of her. Wasn't it precisely. I mean you know she's like she had an affair with like a swede right. That's what I heard tell me: that's not fiction! That's not faction sites that when you can even cling onto you erase it wasn't. It
yeah torrid, rolling
due to our love affair, was very I'd tender and genuine from what I understand you're, referring to count at full of on first than you either.
We'd and they mad.
Ball and Paris and they kept up. Can
Haitian over several years. He actually went away to help fight in the American Revolution was back and forth between Sweden.
In France and eventual
came back and by this time Louis had given Marie Antoinette her own little place on the
the first I've got pretty train on job over the description of this place sounds beautiful, yeah, basically, go came, Basinger and buying higher on trying to sort out it away.
Is a house originally belt for gleam, Madame de Pompadour and the idea was just a pleasure how's, it was complete, get away and Marie Antoinette was.
Tom boy, when she was growing up, she really liked hunting and animals in the rough and tumble life, and so she wanted to
a little bit of that flavour to Versailles. So she asked
created her.
Provincial village, outside the train, idly with cow, complete with cows and sheep, one of my personal fave animals
Is she had all these rested? Looking buildings by
some of them actually operated
some of them had other things inside you know, like other little giveaways are extensions of the house. It was almost like
going to end GM and sing all these backdrops. But behind you now you realize their just pop really didn't she put on plays their amended, the country that would coincide with the year. I was her own little fantasy world and she had a jewel box theater and
when she gave his performance as if one of the only time that Louis would come to train on. I was her get away, but he would come by to see her performance. You play the part of of dairy may than for somebody who had as much money and extravagant things as she did. She certainly likely now taking off the dog as the her
the expression gas
putting on the dogs and on the expression of beginning often thing I have not heard the last. You took ass, the dye. Ok, I got the impression that she got homesick. Colonel kind of frequently
four Vienna and, like you said her tomboy up bringing her childhood. That kind of thing
have the affair with the swede, then. Yes, ok fact. So the reasoning
heard and I gotta get another one. There is enough
that she had an affair with the sweet was because her husband, Lou, the fifteen, was impotent? Is that that factor fiction
So a fact. Actually, you is Lui the sixteenth that yeah. I know there's room in euros that crazy groups or two out of three bear: no, not bad at all on well seen our kind about from a hint went out, because we laugh in her bedroom life and it was pretty pitiful, really was, and I'm not the only one to think so during her lifetime they were pamphlets that sort of
I wanted to what're. You now tab.
Today being circulated around Perez than the headlines just screens King can do it with clean. Your royal couple fail
to consummate merits a year with lady. You know they ve there began to producing air, so I can imagine that was pretty scandals. How long this go on fork is I mean they eventually did have kids, I yeah seven years,
seven years allowing heads of that there are plenty of pamphlets a year and the first canvas a girl.
Come here on file that inside a holler, but they do have a boy. Eventually they did gone to have children, but you know it's just so funny
is there are so many factors about their lines that were really working against them and thus for one
Louis was really interested in lock. I've heard the walks a year in the big joke was that the king couldn't find where to put his key and little like theirs and a lot of pressure without Marie Antoinette. His marriage was obviously a political marriage and designed to deny the Austrian Habsburg, but the french Bourbon and her mother,
would write her letter saying you need to be kissing on him more and touching on him more and be warmer in the bed room, and you need to
being better care of yourself to make yourself attractive to hand and shit?
not really awful, you know she was still really young at this time. In a long day
things. She was fifteen when they got mere well, it's pretty yoni yum by the tries to young, almost two young. There you have it, but by the time they became monarchs. I think she was in her twenties. I very early twentieth sound. Yet the lot
Well that is a lot of pressure. So cases too for three today, which is in bad, that's better than me,
rule over one so
pressure, you clear that up, I'm gonna go talk to clamber and tell her. I was wrong yeah. So thanks for this- and you want me to give you some Kate, I just Washington, D, c
and he had let em you got a minor glass number three, so I'll bring a copper force
You know if you want to dash back when you ve got the other piece of cake. Tell you one more interesting timid about over back, and I promise you one more interesting to tell it out Marie Antoinette and Hugo's what is supposedly she was allowed a three point: six million dollar and today's dollars allowance for her wardrobe and she always surpassed bad because she liked ordering gowns trend and silver and gold and dripping with diamonds and emeralds. And whilst I haven't took cedar that has no emeralds all over it. But this is worn and that's you know, that's practical! That's for the work party should we need those here. I forgot it today. Luckily, I'm wearing my dog out. So if you want even more royal flatter, I you can read the top five Marie Antoinette scandalous on how stuff works. Dot com is a mistake for more on this and thousands of other topics as it has done for Stockholm. Let us know what you think: funding aimed to pod cast at how stuff works not come. We are going to ITALY after the success of last year's troops or Paris. We are planning another similar trips still with defined destinations. This time to Rome and Florence Year we are going to spend a week exploring some amazing things. We're gonna have city tourism, both Roman Florence, we're gonna, see the Roman Colosseum, the Vatican Museum in the Sistine Chapel seat, Peters Basilica, Vatican City. This is just a tiny fraction of all the stuff we're gonna get to do, get its May fourteen to twenty first twenty twenty and to get
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