What I want to know is, how the hell did they end up so rich after everything that's happened in French history since 1789?
One word: Thermidorians. It just went downhill after that (while the royalists' money returned).
I don't get it either....I think they actually find it more upsetting that he lost his title than that he lost his head.
That's simply because, even if they are not aware of it, Capet already had no head. The title, on the other side...
So why does your mother think it's horrible? I thought she remembered the stockings.
She thinks it's horrible because it gives a bad image of the saint martyr Tontoinette. As for the stockings, I will not insist *shudders* I only hope at one point she'll dream of her trial and can tell me where I was, exactly.
I wonder what my Jacobin ghosts think of that movie. They're probably very depressed...
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Date: Monday, 28 August 2006 00:13 (UTC)One word: Thermidorians. It just went downhill after that (while the royalists' money returned).
I don't get it either....I think they actually find it more upsetting that he lost his title than that he lost his head.
That's simply because, even if they are not aware of it, Capet already had no head. The title, on the other side...
So why does your mother think it's horrible? I thought she remembered the stockings.
She thinks it's horrible because it gives a bad image of the saint martyr Tontoinette. As for the stockings, I will not insist *shudders* I only hope at one point she'll dream of her trial and can tell me where I was, exactly.
I wonder what my Jacobin ghosts think of that movie. They're probably very depressed...