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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · 6d

Unfortunately due to sickness and technical difficulties we've been unable to get the episode out as soon as we wanted, but Louis XVI's episode will be released next week!

Thank you to our lovely listeners for all your patience.

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Aug 30

Listen to our latest episode to found out how this "well-beloved" king steered France through the fraught but fabulous 18th Century.

Episode 61 – Louis XV

The Sun King was a hard act to follow, and with France tiptoeing towards Revolution, how did Louis XV, “the well-beloved” respond to the endless wars, scandals and financial crises of t…

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Aug 22

Louis XV has arrived! After him, the deluge...

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61 - Louis XV, Part 1

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Apr 20

The Lord(s) have risen!

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Apr 20

The Sun King has risen!

60 - Louis XIV, Part 1

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 14

There will be blood! It's time for the Red Eminence himself...

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Catherine Hill @ctjhill.bsky.social · Feb 10

What with listening to @gregjenner.bsky.social host a podcast about run up to British Civil Wars and @battleroyale.bsky.social doing Louis XIII, I'm basically reliving my History A Level about 20 years later. I keep remembering things I made notes about just as someone says key phrases.

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 6

We've already got an Edgar the Peaceable and it's Louis IX 😅

Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 5

Sorry to disappoint. 😭 I have a feeling we might come to regret this decision. But hopefully the fact we covered him at all will help redeem him! This period is so overlooked in general.

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 3

He does! You know he's up to no good 😉

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 3

No idea who that is and Google won't tell me

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 3

Also I was trying to make a joke about how the full-figured "Rubenesque" beauty standards aligns roughly with the rise of opera (which is stereotyped as having "fat ladies" as primadonnas). Maybe a poorly worded joke on my part, but I was not trying to imply causality there.

Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 3

Opera, ballet and theatre in general are things that gradually evolve from the Middle Ages and were not invented under Louis XIV. I'm not a music buff but I gather the word "opera" had a different meaning (lit. "work" in Italian) so it could honestly mean anything. But it's there in the 1500s.

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 3

It was fleetingly mentioned in the sources I read but here's an article that mentions her and Henry IV patronising Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri. Obviously these are Italian not French composers, and it would not have been opera as we recognise it. indianapublicmedia.org/harmonia/cen....

Three Centuries of Patronage: The Medici Musical Legacy

This week on Harmonia we’ll explore this wide swath of music history through the Medici lens.

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Feb 3

This was certainly an interesting one to rate... Do you agree with our verdict?

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Episode 59 – Louis XIII

The Louis XIII of Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” is a comically naïve and easily manipulated do-nothing king, dominated by his scheming chief minister Cardinal Richelieu…

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Jan 12

Thanks for joining us on Bluesky! We are going to start posting here more regularly since more and more people are joining.

Are you caught up on the podcast yet?

Make sure you listen to our epic 2-parter on the life and reign of Henry IV!

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Episode 58 – Henry IV

We’re back!!! And we’re starting off a new royal line with Henry IV, the first Bourbon king. Is this stinky, ill-mannered heretic really the hero France has been waiting for after 30 ye…

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Nov 26

A wild Joan of Arc appears!
Stay tuned for Part 2 next week!!!
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48.5 - Joan of Arc (Part 1) - Battle Royale: French Monarchs

The Maid of Orléans is well-known for having taken the intricate chessboard of the Hundred Years' War, tipped it upside down, kicked it across a field and scored a game-changing goal for the Blues af...

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Nov 19

It’s now time to review the life and deeds of the “mad king” himself, Charles VI. In this episode, we talk about what the king was like before his mental illness took over, and what the darkest period of the Hundred Years’ War was like from his tragic perspective.

Episode 48 – Charles VI

It's now time to review the life and deeds of the "mad king" himself, Charles VI. In this episode, we talk about what the king was like before his mental illness took over, and what the darkest period...

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Nov 19

Those dastardly dukes!

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Nov 6

Our final two Regents of Madness bring the Hundred Year’s War to its apotheosis.

Also, it's VOTING TIME!

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Regency of Madness: Episode 5/5

Our final two Regents of Madness bring the Hundred Year's War to its apotheosis. Henry V's brother Bedford was Charles VI's regent at the very end of his life, but Ben has uncovered that this English ...

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Oct 30

Katy from Queens Podcast joins us to explore the Hundred Years' War from the perspective of two fabulous (and frustrated!) queens: Isabeau of Bavaria and Yolande of Aragon.

Regency of Madness: Episode 4/5

Katy from Queens Podcast joins us for the showdown of showdowns: Isabeau of Bavaria VS Yolande of Aragon, the Queen of France VS the "Queen of Four Kingdoms". As we go through their lives, we see th...

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Oct 27

New Patreon episode!

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Oct 26

Thanks for the shout-out! Glad you're enjoying it.

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Oct 24

Josh from @valoisburgundy.bsky.social joins us yet again, this time to pit the John the Fearless and Tough-Guy Armagnac together in an all-out civil war, because we needed more distractions from the English invasion.

Regency of Madness: Episode 3/5

Josh Zucker from the Grand Dukes of the West podcast joins us to talk about yet another Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless. And while John may not match his father for statecraft or shrewdness, he ...

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Battle Royale: French Monarchs @battleroyale.bsky.social · Sep 24

Veronica from Passed podcast joins us to talk Berry and Bourbon. Together, they're the "nice" uncles of Charles VI, and a great idea for a cocktail!

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