Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2025-03-06
Books mentioned on Part Two: In Honor Of Our New Monarchy, Let's Talk About Versailles
Robert tells Ed about the Sun King's very sad death from butt rot and how his great grandson grew up raised by the insane party house of death that now controlled all of French politics. See omnystudio.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Revolutionary Temper
The Revolutionary Temper by Robert Darnton is a historical study that explores how public opinion, media, and print culture operated in Paris during the decades leading up to the French Revolution.
Recommended“as Robert Darton writes in the Revolutionary temper which is a great book about the way the media worked in Paris leading up to the revolution for most parisians especially the little people Versa was an alien world and politics was the king's business transacted in His Name by ministers corders and power Brokers among legans”
Where to get it
