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Speaker 1: Bonjeur mesa. Welcome back to the show. So very exciting episode.

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Speaker 1: Today we are going back to France where we were

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Speaker 1: in our very first episode, episode one, Madame de Bombadour

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Speaker 1: and Louis fifteen. Very exciting and not a dissimilar story

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Speaker 1: a different time. We're looking at the late eighteen hundreds

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Speaker 1: early nineteen hundreds. She was also the official mistress to

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Speaker 1: the President of the Republic of France, President Felix f

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Speaker 1: And so this is the story. So this is the

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Speaker 1: story of Marguerite Steinheil and Felix f. Hope you all

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Speaker 1: had a great weekend. Yeah, I know you must have

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Speaker 1: missed us because last week we had a Monday Wednesday

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Speaker 1: release schedule because of the podcast conference for back to

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Speaker 1: Wednesday Friday. Uh, you know what absence the heart and YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 1: So you said so much of the phrase, just that

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Speaker 1: the whole thing absence the heart. You know, you get it.

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Speaker 1: Absence makes the heart go yonder was the title of

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Speaker 1: King's Quest two oh, A fantastic game. He has talked

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Speaker 1: about King's Quest, I guess since I've known you. Yeah, definitely,

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Speaker 1: So I've talked about it since long before j was

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Speaker 1: telling me about this, and was it during the pandemic

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Speaker 1: that we played that? I believe that before anyway, whatever.

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Speaker 1: At one point I was like, fine, let's see what

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Speaker 1: all the fuss is about, and you were right. They're

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Speaker 1: so fun eighties and nineties adventure computer games. I learned

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Speaker 1: how to read and write playing Kings Quest one when

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Speaker 1: I was very young. Not a lot of story in

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Speaker 1: kings The mythology really blows open in the second, through

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Speaker 1: the through the sixth, and they're so good. I guess

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Speaker 1: it's probably my favorite video game series. Zelda's Great, Mario's Great,

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Speaker 1: Odd World is great. But King's Quest, and if anybody

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Speaker 1: out there here's any rumblings about this, there is. I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you right now, there is not a King's Quest

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Speaker 1: TV series adaptation without me involved. So don't let it

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Speaker 1: happen without somebody calling me, because I'm doing it anyway.

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Speaker 1: So super glad you guys tuned in today. This is

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Speaker 1: a big story. We're two distinct parts, and for that reason,

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Speaker 1: we're giving it to you in two distinct parts, because

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Speaker 1: we didn't want to skimp on the details, and also

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Speaker 1: we love France and we're gonna talk a lot. Let's

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Speaker 1: set the music and dive in Alon the Hey they're French,

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Speaker 1: come listen, well, Elien Diana got some stories to tell.

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Speaker 1: There's no matchmaking, no romantic tips. It's just about pridiculous relationships.

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Speaker 1: A love. It might be any type of person at all,

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Speaker 1: and abstract concept at a concrete wall. But if there's

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Speaker 1: a story where the second glance, ridiculous roles production of

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Speaker 1: I Heart Radio Norguerite Juppy, or Meg as she was called,

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Speaker 1: I was like Mace having to say, Marguerite this whole

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Speaker 1: time is not going to work out. Marguerite, that's it.

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Speaker 1: Meg was born in Alsace in eighteen sixty nine. Nice,

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Speaker 1: thank you, you never missed one. You never missed the

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Speaker 1: sixty nine. Her father, Eduard, was from a wealthy family,

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Speaker 1: but he had been cast out when he married Emily,

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Speaker 1: the daughter of an innkeeper a Hallmark movie. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know right. She is the love of my life.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't care about these frivolous things like Francs. She's like,

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Speaker 1: I care a little about Franks. Why I'm marrying you.

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Speaker 1: I do care about France cutting off my family so

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Speaker 1: I can be with you. And she's like, oh this

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Speaker 1: makes it. Aquard of but no, Actually they were a

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Speaker 1: They were cultured, they were artistic. Edward once said to her,

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Speaker 1: He's currently decorating a cathedral. Kidding. His name is Adolph Steinheil,

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Speaker 1: So she ends up seeing him more and more after this.

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Speaker 1: I determined to divorce. What can I get a little

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Speaker 1: insanity play in exchange for the names of other anarchist accomplices.

424
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,680
Speaker 1: But he told police Cesario is a baker. He's never

425
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: an informer. Anyway, he was executed. Cesario with me a

426
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: plumber first, and then to tell you any other my name.

427
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:23,040
Speaker 1: So so yeah, anyway, six months after he's elected in January,

428
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: Jehan Kazimir Perier resigned, saying the ministers were not listening

429
00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: to him. They're ignoring everything I say, so what's the point.

430
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:35,159
Speaker 1: They're also not keeping me informed about foreign affairs. Um,

431
00:26:35,200 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: sort of my whole thing. I'm kind of a job.

432
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,520
Speaker 1: And it was to this day the shortest presidency in

433
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: French history. And he completely left politics at that point

434
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: as well. He was just out done the whole job.

435
00:26:49,400 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: Cobbler or something. I'll go be a plumber. Here's anither baker.

436
00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 1: So taking his place was Felix Foe. It was a

437
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,640
Speaker 1: long shot for him to win It came from our

438
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 1: campaigns dot com. We learned that Henry Brisson, who was

439
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: a far left candidate, was doing very well, but moderates

440
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: and conservatives didn't really know who their candidate was going

441
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: to be, and they were kind of dropping the ball

442
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: on this this guy pre while deck Rousseau had agreed

443
00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:17,879
Speaker 1: to run, but rumors were that he was hesitant to

444
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:19,919
Speaker 1: do so, and he kept like changing his mind, so

445
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: he didn't have a lot of momentum so far. Decided

446
00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 1: that he was going to run, but it was even later,

447
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: so he was also kind of seen as a dark horse,

448
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,960
Speaker 1: long shot to win. But in the first ballot he

449
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: came in second place, but Brisson was in first place

450
00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:36,359
Speaker 1: and he didn't hit a majority. And in France, at

451
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,639
Speaker 1: least at the time, this may still be true, but

452
00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:41,400
Speaker 1: at this time you had to hit a fifty percent

453
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,959
Speaker 1: majority in your votes to actually win. If nobody hit

454
00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: that fifty percent, they went back, they had a second ballot,

455
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 1: and people would resign, drop out of the race, and

456
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,400
Speaker 1: they would consolidate their votes and they'd have a second run.

457
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,920
Speaker 1: While deck Rousseau did exactly that, he had come in

458
00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: third place, but he was like, all right, I'll drop out,

459
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: you take my endorsement, and that was enough for Felix

460
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: Far to win the second ballot with fifty three point

461
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,919
Speaker 1: seven percent of the vote, so he becomes president. Now,

462
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: much of the following that we're going to tell you

463
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: about Meg and Felix Far comes from Meg's own autobiography,

464
00:28:11,880 --> 00:28:15,640
Speaker 1: which we sort of mentioned is a little a little iffy. Um,

465
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: it's kind of taken with a grain of salt because

466
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: people say it's been pretty white washed and clear coated

467
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,199
Speaker 1: and things like that, but it's the only account that

468
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 1: we can find about their actual meeting and their early relationship. Um.

469
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: She doesn't explicitly mention sex during this, but it's that's

470
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:41,520
Speaker 1: what was happening they were doing. In Meg went with

471
00:28:41,560 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: her husband Adolf to the Alps because he had been

472
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 1: commissioned to paint this big panorama of the Alpine Club

473
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: for the pairs exhibition of that's quite a party, fancy,

474
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: and Meg refers to the alpine maneuvers happening there, which

475
00:29:00,160 --> 00:29:02,400
Speaker 1: like some kind of winter sports kind of action like

476
00:29:02,560 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: skiing and stuff. It had started in August. A lot

477
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,720
Speaker 1: of people were there to watch him, and Adolf was

478
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: standing high on a deck Meg went down a level

479
00:29:11,880 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: with her camera to get some snapshots from top of

480
00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: a large rock, and from below her, a group of

481
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,600
Speaker 1: well dressed men walked towards the ledge to wash and

482
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,479
Speaker 1: one of them kind of looked up at her and

483
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: said something like, oh, should I pose for a picture?

484
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:28,800
Speaker 1: And she kind of laughed and was like, get out

485
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:33,120
Speaker 1: of a shot, dummy, whatever. But what she didn't realize

486
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: was that she was talking to the President of the Republic,

487
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:39,560
Speaker 1: Felix far So. Later, he had sent a request to

488
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: her and Adolf to come have dinner with him, but

489
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: she declined. She was like, excuse me, this is very

490
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: short notice to go have a super formal dinner with

491
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 1: the president, and I didn't need to. What will I wear?

492
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: So she declines, but Adolf goes because he's a painter

493
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,800
Speaker 1: and why would you turn down a meeting with the president? Um,

494
00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: And sure enough he gets commissioned while he's there by

495
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,040
Speaker 1: the President to do a painting. They asked him to

496
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: paint president for handing out medals at a ceremony at

497
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,080
Speaker 1: this new military base they had just built in the Alps.

498
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: Even though she didn't go, the President continues to keep

499
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: inviting them to dinners and lunches while they're all hanging

500
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: out in the Alps, and Marguerite keeps declining. She says

501
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 1: she was spending so much time with the villagers and

502
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: shopping and dining and you know, kind of doing the

503
00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: rustic lifestyle thing with the peasants and the Coleman folk.

504
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: Um that she said, I much preferred the milk, cheese

505
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: and brown bread of the mountaineers to all the dainties

506
00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 1: and the wines of the presidential table, and Felix is like,

507
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:43,720
Speaker 1: how do you know what is on my table? You

508
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:52,040
Speaker 1: have never gon got milk. But despite the fact that

509
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: she didn't go, Adolph would come back and see her

510
00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: and be like, you know, the President keeps talking about

511
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 1: you and how you're not there, so maybe you should

512
00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:03,960
Speaker 1: come by sometime. He's like, She's like put it in writing.

513
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: Eventually they leave the Alps. They go back to Paris

514
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: for Adolph to complete the painting, which would take months

515
00:31:13,160 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: of course, big painting, and when it was finished in

516
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 1: early President four wanted to come and see and he

517
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 1: wanted to come visit their home because you know, it

518
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: was super well known for all these artistic salons they

519
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:29,600
Speaker 1: were having and stuff. And all these parties that she's

520
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,560
Speaker 1: singing at. Yeah. Right, He's like, let me, let me

521
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: check out this club. So he shows up with his entourage.

522
00:31:36,640 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: He met with the stein Hiles and their daughter Marta,

523
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: who was about eight years old at this point, and

524
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: he went down to kiss her and she said, uh,

525
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,640
Speaker 1: I know my boundaries and he thought that was really cute.

526
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: So he asked her what her favorite toy was and

527
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: she said a doll. I mean, there were a lot

528
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: of toys. It's like I wanted to switch. They please

529
00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:09,960
Speaker 1: issues think um. And he said he would give instructions

530
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,200
Speaker 1: for the perfect all to be made for her and

531
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,880
Speaker 1: sent to her quote exactly the same as I'm sending

532
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: the Tsar's daughter. And she still would not give him

533
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: kiss because she's like, I cannot be bought. Yes, she

534
00:32:23,880 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: said no, let her alone. Felix was big on improving

535
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: French Russian relations and he had a very good friendship

536
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: with our Nicholas. The second I don't think that it

537
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: would go well work out, man. Sorry. Sorry. He sees

538
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: the painting, he loves it, and he's like, this is

539
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,800
Speaker 1: so good, and you know what, you've got another painting here.

540
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,440
Speaker 1: I want to buy I'll buy some more. He just

541
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: kept finding reasons to contact the two of them, and

542
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 1: so they would hang out. Eventually, he and Meg and

543
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: Adolf all had a pretty good friendship going, especially him

544
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: and Meg. Phil and Meg would have long talks about

545
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 1: art and music and travel, but pretty superficial conversations at first,

546
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: she said. But then one day in his study he

547
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: pulled her in and he says, Hey, I got something

548
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: I gotta talk to you about. Uh. Things are really

549
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 1: bad right now. France politically not in a great place.

550
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 1: Uh about taptical tell everyone they got to eat cake?

551
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: Is that never goes well? Uh? And uh. He's like,

552
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: there's all this political strife going out in France. Socialists

553
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: are gaining in the polls, there's these radicals that were

554
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,120
Speaker 1: gaining ground in the National Assembly, and there's this new party,

555
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 1: the Nationalists, and they were no good news either. This

556
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: was going on. Plus the dry Fuss affair was tearing

557
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: France in half. Richard dry Fuss, not Richard dry Fuss,

558
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: not not the instance in the early two thousands when

559
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: actor Richard Dreyfuss was accused of sexual harassment in the

560
00:33:56,680 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: nineteen eighties by a writer, but instead the Dreyfus affair.

561
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: A little quick sub lesson here. The Driver's affair was

562
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: about a Jewish French captain named Alfred Dreyfus who was

563
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,960
Speaker 1: convicted of treason in eighteen ninety four for giving French

564
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,919
Speaker 1: military secrets to the Germans. That news right well. Two

565
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: years after he was convicted, new evidence came out showing

566
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: that it wasn't him at all. It was another man

567
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: named esther Hazy, but high ranking military officials totally suppressed

568
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: that evidence, did not let it get out, and esther

569
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: Hasy was acquitted and they doubled down on Dreyfus. He

570
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: got another sentence. So French novelist emil Zola wrote an

571
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: open letter titled jaccuse and he sent that out Jacques

572
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:44,840
Speaker 1: dot dot dot exclamation exactly. I mean, that's that's a

573
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,080
Speaker 1: statement right there. And the letter, which was published for

574
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: all of France to read, accused Felix Far's administration of

575
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:56,720
Speaker 1: being anti Semitic and of suppressing evidence that guy. Emil

576
00:34:56,800 --> 00:34:59,840
Speaker 1: Zola was convicted of libel against the president and the

577
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: office and he had to flee to England to avoid

578
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: jail time. This scandal, the Dreyfus affair, was huge. It

579
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 1: was rocking France. It went on for years. It defined

580
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: Felix's presidency and its split French society down the middle

581
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: between the dry Fussards and the anti dry Fussard's. The

582
00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: dry Fussards was mostly supported by the elite minds of

583
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: the day, literary people, artists, scholars, journalists, uh, people with

584
00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:33,479
Speaker 1: half a brain, and the anti dry Hussards were being

585
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,760
Speaker 1: led probably one of the one of the big figures

586
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: in it was a pillow inventor. Now I'm just kidding.

587
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: It was no, it was a guy who ran an

588
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: anti Semitic newspaper. Uh. So it was like pretty clear,

589
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: and i mean historically it's been proven absolutely that he

590
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: didn't do it, but it was kind of a pick

591
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 1: your side and it sort of set all out about

592
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: your character at the time. But dry fuss was eventually

593
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: pardoned by the next president, Emil lou Bay, so it

594
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: was all sort and he went back to the military

595
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: and served the rest of his life in the military. Wow, hey,

596
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 1: this guy didn't hold a grudge. I mean, right, i'd

597
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:12,040
Speaker 1: be like, you know what, I'm leaving politics altogether. So yeah,

598
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: it's just a lot of stuff going on. The president

599
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: is stressed out, and he asked Meg to help him

600
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: out because he's like, here's somebody with a lot of persuasion,

601
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: powers of persuasion. Um, you have so much charm, so

602
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:29,319
Speaker 1: much wit, and she's well connected. So he's like, you

603
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: can help me influence the elites to my side. You're

604
00:36:33,080 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: sort of doing whisper campaigns for me, making me look

605
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: good with them, you know, making me look good, you

606
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,920
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So they met almost every day.

607
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: When they weren't meeting, he would call her at random times.

608
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: There's always something to do or someone to meet, or

609
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 1: some committee to influence, and she would take his place

610
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: at receptions and parties, even senate meetings when he couldn't go.

611
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: So she was like, really a red hand scal and

612
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,439
Speaker 1: she got the inside scoop on who his enemies were

613
00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: and which way the wind was blowing and whether or

614
00:37:05,040 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: not they could change it. So she was able to

615
00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: kind of go whisper in his ear about like, who's

616
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: on your side? This guy's not ever going to be

617
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,399
Speaker 1: on your side. We should stop wasting our time with him.

618
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: But this guy might be persuaded. That kind of thing,

619
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:24,720
Speaker 1: and this made her social circles explode. Her salon was packed.

620
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: There's invitations, salutations pouring in from all over. She is

621
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 1: just the darling. Imagine somebody goes to her like real

622
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 1: basic ship. They're like, I need the permit to have

623
00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: my street festival next week. Hey, Marguerite, you know I've

624
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: brought you these nice plums, right, Can I get a

625
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 1: little favor on all of the sudden summer he keel

626
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: shows h And it worked the other way too. There

627
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 1: were now men who were constantly trying to get her

628
00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,360
Speaker 1: to persuade the president of something that they wanted nat truly,

629
00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,279
Speaker 1: you know, it's not a one way thing. Everyone's going

630
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,400
Speaker 1: to go, Oh, if she can make me do sh it,

631
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,839
Speaker 1: I can ask him to do ship for her. Um

632
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: or they would even try and lay traps for her.

633
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: They would use subtle threats to try and extract information

634
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:19,800
Speaker 1: from them. You know, if the President doesn't decide to

635
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:23,360
Speaker 1: give me my three permit, then you know, who knows,

636
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 1: maybe something happens, does that nice piano. I would hate

637
00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,920
Speaker 1: to see anything anybody spills some red wine on your

638
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: grand like out of here. But yeah, she was too

639
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 1: quick for them. She always knew where they were amp to,

640
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,920
Speaker 1: just like early now at least she said she was

641
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:46,440
Speaker 1: in the autobiography. She probably was talking up her skills,

642
00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: but yeah, she seemed to have a good nose for

643
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 1: bullshit anyway, so she was probably like, no, I don't

644
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: have to say that to him if I don't want to,

645
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: you know, Oh, nice little threat. How about I don't

646
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:01,439
Speaker 1: invite you to the next one? Is that a little

647
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:08,120
Speaker 1: p I saw it? M M, that's what I thought.

648
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: Be gone. And she had a huge influence on the

649
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 1: president's appointments as well. So they'd be like some well

650
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:19,080
Speaker 1: suited man with like a brilliant career behind him, he'd

651
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: be up for a job. But she would go and

652
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,520
Speaker 1: tell Far, Nah, this guy is going to stab you

653
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:26,600
Speaker 1: in the back the minute it suits him, like I

654
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,799
Speaker 1: know him, we've partied, and far would kick him to

655
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: the curb. And she keeps saying in her book that

656
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: she was not political at all and never gave political advice,

657
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 1: only psychological advice. But I mean she gave political advice.

658
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 1: Ilind this this is literally political in every way. I

659
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 1: love that She's like, I am not political at all.

660
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: I do not really care about one side there's the other.

661
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: I just want what is best for friends. And I

662
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,279
Speaker 1: would not do anything. Don't you dare appoint him to

663
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: your cabinet. Sands, he is going to take us in

664
00:39:56,960 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: that terrible direction. I hear he supports r Drive. This

665
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: is you know, it's like you're political political actions and

666
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: not political. I am just influencing the president of the republic.

667
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:15,399
Speaker 1: Come on at any rate, she said, like we were saying.

668
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: She saw men in her salon who were close friends

669
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:21,360
Speaker 1: their whole lives, just having furious arguments over the driver's affair.

670
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 1: Felix had also wanted her help in writing his memoirs

671
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:31,640
Speaker 1: or in French memoir thank You. She kept pages and

672
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:33,879
Speaker 1: pages of documents that he had gathered to do so,

673
00:40:34,000 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: I mean old letters and journals and political documents like

674
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: important ship, and she kept it carefully locked away in

675
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:45,680
Speaker 1: her own house. Felix told Meg that he had a

676
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: special surprise for her. She got very excited, and the

677
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 1: next day she received from a from like a delivery.

678
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: One of his men shows up with a bouquet of

679
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:59,399
Speaker 1: flowers and a large gold box. It's a beautiful box.

680
00:40:59,440 --> 00:41:02,080
Speaker 1: There's pictures it and she opens up this box and

681
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 1: inside is this marvelous pearl necklace. The five rows of

682
00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:12,840
Speaker 1: very nice, just perfect pearls. Somebody once said this was

683
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:17,600
Speaker 1: a twenty dollar necklace. Yeah, So she wrote to the president.

684
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: She was like, no, please, no, thank you, no, mercy, Uh,

685
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: this is a lot. I don't want this. I can't

686
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,480
Speaker 1: keep this. This is insane, Like I'm not your wife, buddy,

687
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: this is a lot. And he's like, no, this is yours.

688
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: I got this for you. I want you to have it.

689
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,319
Speaker 1: And she's like, that's it. No, I'm I'm returning this

690
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,440
Speaker 1: to you next time I see you. So two days later,

691
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: she goes to him just like I'm gonna give you

692
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: back those necklace, and he looks totally different. He is spooked,

693
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: he is scared. His face is white. He's really worried

694
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: about something. She's like, what's going on. He says, Hey,

695
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:55,360
Speaker 1: look I'm in deep, merita right now. I butt this

696
00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: necklace from a friend, Uh, you know, just some guy.

697
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,359
Speaker 1: I know. He's a real high ranking official and I

698
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:02,120
Speaker 1: was just trying to help him out, like you know,

699
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:03,560
Speaker 1: I was just doing him a favor by buying this

700
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: pearl necklace. Um. But apparently it's like, um, it's actually

701
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,240
Speaker 1: this huge scandal and if it's disclosed, it will totally

702
00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:13,280
Speaker 1: ruin me. I'll have to resign and leave the country.

703
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 1: So hey, please don't tell anybody who have this necklace.

704
00:42:16,560 --> 00:42:19,280
Speaker 1: And also I need you to hide it the way forever. Please.

705
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 1: I can't tell you why. My friend and I both

706
00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: neither of us knew about it. We were just totally

707
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 1: the seed and screwed. So don't wear it, don't show it,

708
00:42:26,760 --> 00:42:30,720
Speaker 1: keep it secret, keep it safe, hide this necklace away forever.

709
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: But of course she's like, uh no, mother pucker. You

710
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 1: keep that ship. Whatever you're into. I'm not into that.

711
00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,480
Speaker 1: I don't want to be dragged into some weird ship.

712
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: He's like, listen, I can't have it. I cannot have

713
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 1: it on me. There's just no, I'm not taking it.

714
00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: He's like, don't, don't proto if you want to sell it,

715
00:42:53,400 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: sell the pearls one by one, don't try to sell

716
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,399
Speaker 1: the whole necklace. And she keeps being like okay, oh okay, well,

717
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 1: now you got to tell me what this is about,

718
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,319
Speaker 1: which I totally get. Dying of curiosity. You can't drop

719
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: this necklace. Is there literally a curse on this necklace?

720
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: What's going on? Who owns it? Is it? Csar Nicholas's necklace.

721
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: Did you rip it off his Anastasia's body, Like, what

722
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,280
Speaker 1: is going on here? Breast spute and put a curse

723
00:43:19,320 --> 00:43:20,920
Speaker 1: on it? Oh my god. Yeah, you don't look up

724
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,600
Speaker 1: someone and be like, oh my god, here's the most

725
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,840
Speaker 1: dangerous thing in the world. It will kill me. You

726
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: keep it? What? No mercy? Yeah, He's like, I'm not

727
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: taking it back. You're keeping it. I cannot tell you

728
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: anything about it. You're just gonna have to hang onto

729
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: it and leave me out of it. Leave me out

730
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:43,959
Speaker 1: of it, Do not involve me in the secklist. Don't

731
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: even talk to me about the snacklas ever again, anybody

732
00:43:46,560 --> 00:43:49,920
Speaker 1: or anyone. And so she's like seeing that it's this

733
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: is a serious situation. So she kind of drops it.

734
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: She doesn't ask about it again, and several months later,

735
00:43:56,680 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: in February, Felix calls her. He says, I have to

736
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: see you. I don't feel so good. I think you're right.

737
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: People are rummaging through my private papers and they're looking

738
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:12,760
Speaker 1: at my stuff. He's kind of paranoid, and he also

739
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,560
Speaker 1: is telling her I've been taking too much of this drug.

740
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: I gotta quit. I'm gonna quit. Apparently this drug according

741
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:22,040
Speaker 1: to what I found from a historian named el metti Asari.

742
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:25,600
Speaker 1: The drug is apparently this viagra like tincture that he

743
00:44:25,640 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: took to you know, get things going for himself. Because

744
00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: she was not his only mistress. I mean, Felix got around,

745
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 1: He had some other ladies, and he was an older man,

746
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: and he was taking this magic potion. So she's coming

747
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,839
Speaker 1: over because he just gave her this phone call and

748
00:44:43,960 --> 00:44:47,919
Speaker 1: he tells this dorman, Okay, rings a beut twice when

749
00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 1: Marguerite shows up for anybody else, just ring it once

750
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: if it's Marguerite ding Ding. So he's waiting in his

751
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: office and all of a sudden he hears It's like,

752
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, Okay, finally she's here, and he takes

753
00:45:01,080 --> 00:45:06,279
Speaker 1: a big swig of his boner magic potion and and

754
00:45:06,520 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: in walks the Archbishop of Paris. Oh yeah, and so

755
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: they have He drags him through some long, boring talk

756
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 1: about religious issues, and the whole time Felix is trying

757
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:27,160
Speaker 1: to hide his archbishop what a bone or killer bishop?

758
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,359
Speaker 1: It depends on how well this potion worked. So right,

759
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:35,479
Speaker 1: he's like cathedrals, you say. The archbishop finally goes out,

760
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 1: and then the next person to come in is Prince

761
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: Albert of Monaco, and so he's trying to hide his

762
00:45:42,880 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 1: Prince Albert, just like in this dick joke paragraph, how

763
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: did the Archbishop and Prince Albert become the names come on?

764
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: That's a setup right there, and historical setup for a

765
00:45:56,719 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: perfect punchline. So he comes in and it's like, oh

766
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,440
Speaker 1: my god, it's gonna deal with this guy. And it's

767
00:46:03,480 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: another long meeting, and this time the Prince Albert wants

768
00:46:06,239 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: to talk about the Garifus affair and how mad he

769
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,399
Speaker 1: is about it, and that gets Felix in a really

770
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:14,200
Speaker 1: bad mood. He's super stressed by all this, and finally

771
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,200
Speaker 1: the bell rings twice and he's like, that's gotta be her.

772
00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 1: So okay, Prince Albert, thank you for a commenting. It's

773
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: kind to go. He ushers him out. He's like holding

774
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:26,000
Speaker 1: a pillow in front of his so I think I'd

775
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: like to think he's just carefully placing himself behind table

776
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: like a plant like ornate silver teapots with the spout

777
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: coming out. He takes a book to move around, but

778
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,200
Speaker 1: then he just took place and then I'll open it

779
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:49,280
Speaker 1: so it doesn't look weird. Um, So out goes Prince Albert,

780
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 1: and he's like this, you know, my magic juice is

781
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 1: wearing off. I'd better take another swig of this drug.

782
00:46:55,239 --> 00:46:57,799
Speaker 1: And so he does. He takes a second dose. This

783
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: stuff is bad for you. I mean it's not on

784
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: the market today. It's some you know, ridiculous tincture that

785
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,719
Speaker 1: probably was, you know, not not widely prescribed, or if

786
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:11,440
Speaker 1: it was, it caused a lot of damage. It caused

787
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: renal damage, it caused constricted blood vessels, and a double

788
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,799
Speaker 1: dose on top of already taking it for years is

789
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:22,160
Speaker 1: bad news. So Marguerite comes in, he's got his bone

790
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: or juice going and she gets to work. I'm trying

791
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: to soothe his frustration. Sure, yeah, she she's going down

792
00:47:32,960 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: the chums Ella Ella mooge latife. She takes a blessing

793
00:47:42,760 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: from the Archbressure in Paris. Let me know what I'm saying. Yeah,

794
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:53,279
Speaker 1: she she became acquainted with Lei. You know, she gave

795
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: a blowjob. Okay, she's giving him a blowjob and while

796
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: she's printing his Albert gross Suddenly, yes, this is very gross.

797
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: Suddenly he twitched, groaned, his convulsed hands grabbed her hair,

798
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:18,919
Speaker 1: and he died. Yikes. With his dick in her mouth.

799
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 1: When she realized what had happened, unsurprisingly, she screamed, anything else,

800
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: I would have been concerned. Oh not a god. Servants

801
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:48,360
Speaker 1: come running in to see what was the matter. And

802
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:51,640
Speaker 1: if we're confronted with quite a site, I'm not getting

803
00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:55,480
Speaker 1: paid enough for this. And it said that the servants

804
00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: had to cut his fingers from her tangled hair. Oh

805
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: my god, she's stuck there. She's just stuck at his crotch.

806
00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:12,360
Speaker 1: He's dead. I just cannot you know, I would have

807
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: white washed my autobiography a little bit too, Like I

808
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,600
Speaker 1: think I need to white wash my mouth out. Yeah,

809
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,640
Speaker 1: that's a good idea. Let's take a quick break and

810
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,879
Speaker 1: come back with the restless of what has happened. Yeah,

811
00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 1: don't go away, you're right back. Okay, we're back. When

812
00:49:34,640 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 1: last we left our hero, she was having the president's

813
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: dead fingers trimmed from her hair. Obviously, they wanted to

814
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: get her the hell out of there real fast before

815
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: anybody knew what was happening. I'm sure she did too.

816
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: The amount of headlines, Oh my god, had stuff. Dot

817
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: Org has an article about this. Uh. They say that

818
00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,279
Speaker 1: the guards quickly ushered her out the back and tried

819
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:02,399
Speaker 1: to hush everything up, but of course it was only

820
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,040
Speaker 1: a matter of time before the rumors started. Somebody had

821
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,800
Speaker 1: to talk about that. One of those servants saw definitely

822
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: told a friend texted like, this is going out. So

823
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:23,560
Speaker 1: once the Prescott word, then the puns started. One statesman said, what,

824
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: which translates to he wanted to be Caesar, but he

825
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,440
Speaker 1: was only Pompey, of course, a lesser emperor. But pump

826
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:35,320
Speaker 1: by is also French slang for a blowjob, so it

827
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,880
Speaker 1: was however, pun there. Another hot joke of the time

828
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: was that the priest that came in to give the

829
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:47,680
Speaker 1: president his last rights came in and said, the president kossens,

830
00:50:48,480 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: which means literally, the president does. Is he still aware?

831
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,520
Speaker 1: Is he's still awake? But connoissance has a double meaning.

832
00:50:56,120 --> 00:51:03,640
Speaker 1: It also means an acquaintance. That's the response was no, no,

833
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:08,920
Speaker 1: she went out the back staircase. A very clever French

834
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: pun there. If you don't have to break it down

835
00:51:10,760 --> 00:51:13,200
Speaker 1: in English, I know, right, I'm like, this word play

836
00:51:13,320 --> 00:51:16,319
Speaker 1: is like really going a lot of ex I can

837
00:51:16,440 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: see how it would work very well. At the time

838
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,200
Speaker 1: you're French, you're just slapping your knee rolling on the

839
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: ground out singer. But surprisingly enough, people did not assume

840
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,319
Speaker 1: that it was Meg who was responsible for this responsible

841
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,080
Speaker 1: if you can call it that, Like she's like, what

842
00:51:35,160 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 1: did I do? Like that? I'm trauma to I'm the

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Speaker 1: victim here. But like we said, Felix had several mistresses.

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00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: Is like we said, Felix had several mistresses, and actually

845
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:53,440
Speaker 1: several mistresses? Is mistresses? Is Severns mistress? Says you do?

846
00:51:56,520 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 1: Because like we said, Felix had several mistresses, I had

847
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,280
Speaker 1: a little bit a bit of like we said, Felix

848
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:06,480
Speaker 1: had several mistresses, and the most famous one was an

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00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 1: actress named Cecile Sorel, and most people assumed it was

850
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: her when they heard French president died getting a blow job.

851
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: Oh it must have been that famous actress, right wow?

852
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:20,800
Speaker 1: Is like man, fuck y'all. And later it was determined

853
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: that he actually died of a cerebral hemorrhage, likely it

854
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: was related to that drug, and he didn't technically die

855
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: until later that evening. Actually, so he didn't literally die

856
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:34,120
Speaker 1: with his dick in her mouth, but he basically did.

857
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 1: As the rumors grew that it was Meg who was

858
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: with the President when he died, she herself earned a

859
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 1: nickname which literally means funeral director, but again Pompey meaning

860
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: blow job. You know, it's like she's the blow job director,

861
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: I guess, or the funeral blowjob, the blow job killer

862
00:52:55,440 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 1: of job killer, which actually worked for her. Surprisingly, when

863
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:06,800
Speaker 1: rumors began to circulate in the world of high ranking

864
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:10,320
Speaker 1: officials and members of the elite that she literally blew

865
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 1: the President's brains out, it did great things for her reputation.

866
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,520
Speaker 1: But yeah, a lot of people were like, I'll take

867
00:53:20,600 --> 00:53:25,200
Speaker 1: one of those killer blow jobs please, I'd like to

868
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:29,360
Speaker 1: try see what you can do with this guy. And

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00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:33,560
Speaker 1: she was. She came into even higher demands in society,

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00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: and she had several affairs who was very wealthy men,

871
00:53:36,800 --> 00:53:42,600
Speaker 1: including the future Prime Minister Artisteed Balms. The salon's roaring.

872
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 1: It's as popular as ever good things from Margarite at

873
00:53:45,600 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: this point. So she's doing great after doing real badly.

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00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:51,560
Speaker 1: I mean, in my opinion, maybe she didn't care about

875
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:53,320
Speaker 1: all that, but I feel like that would definitely I

876
00:53:53,360 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: would wake up sweating from weird dreams about it, like

877
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,200
Speaker 1: it would be a bad I feel like I have

878
00:53:58,239 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 1: a real hard time ever given a blowjob again, and

879
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,440
Speaker 1: I'd just be like, look, how's your heart? Like I

880
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,120
Speaker 1: need a full I need a full doctor job for it.

881
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,359
Speaker 1: What are we taking? What are we doing? She has

882
00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:12,320
Speaker 1: like a like a rogue situation where she's like, I

883
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:14,759
Speaker 1: can't touch you or I'll kill you. Oh my god,

884
00:54:15,520 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: don't even think about that. She gets a white streak

885
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,640
Speaker 1: in her hair after this. Maybe it was great because

886
00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: she's like, actually, I'm giving way less blow jobs than ever,

887
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 1: but people want to sleep with me more because they've heard.

888
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: But they're like a kind of space last minute, They're like, no,

889
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: I don't want to die, let's just have regular sex. Okay,

890
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 1: what say? You can always give me a blowjob that

891
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 1: hasn't killed anyone yet. Amazing could be you. So that's

892
00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: the story of how Marguerite killed the president with a

893
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:55,440
Speaker 1: blood job. Unfair to say she killed him. Absolutely agree.

894
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 1: That's the story of how Felix Farr died during sex

895
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: with his mistress. But that is far from the end

896
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:07,440
Speaker 1: of Marguerite's story. She might have just lived on with

897
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:11,960
Speaker 1: her other nickname La la republique the Horror of the Republic,

898
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,880
Speaker 1: which uh sad. Note when I googled that phrase, she

899
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: is far from the only person who ever earned that nickname. Surprise. Yeah,

900
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:25,520
Speaker 1: that's why the Trial of the Century, where it's just yeah,

901
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,879
Speaker 1: except it's accept It's also very sexist, except it's particularly

902
00:55:31,280 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: to harm a woman. She had numerous affairs the dignitaries

903
00:55:35,640 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: and officials and aristocrats, and that might have been it,

904
00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:42,400
Speaker 1: But just a few years later, Meg's life would be

905
00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:46,320
Speaker 1: turned inside out when she found herself at the center

906
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:52,480
Speaker 1: of a double homicide. Lafere Drefus was over, but lafer

907
00:55:52,680 --> 00:55:57,280
Speaker 1: Steinheil was about to split Paris into two factions once again,

908
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,920
Speaker 1: those who believed her a victim and those who believed

909
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:06,200
Speaker 1: her to be a murderer. Who dies? How does she

910
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: get sucked in? What about that mysterious pearl necklace that

911
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 1: Felix gave to her before his death. All of this

912
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:16,960
Speaker 1: and more is coming up in part to this Friday.

913
00:56:17,760 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: Stay tuned. We're so excited you guys tuned in for

914
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: this one. We're glad to be back on our regular schedule.

915
00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,120
Speaker 1: So yeah, so excited to bring you the rest of

916
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:27,080
Speaker 1: this story. We're very glad you tuned in for this one.

917
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 1: We're glad to be back on her regular schedule. It's

918
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,879
Speaker 1: already a lot going on with Marguerite. Oh my god. Yeah,

919
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 1: what a life. The artistic salons alone would have made

920
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,360
Speaker 1: a great book, if I can be honest, because the

921
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:40,760
Speaker 1: people that she knew and the politics she was involved

922
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: in without being political, and makes me kind of curious

923
00:56:45,239 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: to to know what stories we would be hearing if

924
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: it weren't for her affair with the president. You know,

925
00:56:51,160 --> 00:56:54,799
Speaker 1: I'm sure that totally shadowed or shadowed like anything else

926
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 1: she was doing. Yeah, and then this whole thing with

927
00:56:56,920 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 1: her husband, But it's just funny. I wonder. I'm so

928
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,880
Speaker 1: curious what happened between them, what he did or what

929
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: this or what she did. I mean, maybe she made

930
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: it sound like it was him, but maybe he actually

931
00:57:07,160 --> 00:57:10,560
Speaker 1: was like actually, maybe she's a little dramatic. You know,

932
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 1: it's like something normal like and boring, And she was,

933
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:16,240
Speaker 1: like you said, she was just like, well, I'm not

934
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: going to talk about it now because none of you

935
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 1: would understand. You had to be there. Oh man, it

936
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:27,000
Speaker 1: was his tone. Okay, you weren't there and you don't know.

937
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 1: Her therapist is like, Okay, tell me the story again,

938
00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 1: but listen to yourself this time talking. She's like, oh, god, well,

939
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,000
Speaker 1: I can't tell anyone else. I won't even hint atter.

940
00:57:41,200 --> 00:57:44,680
Speaker 1: I'm taking this one to the grave. And she did.

941
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 1: But yes, she was a very dramatic person and that's

942
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,160
Speaker 1: really going to come out in Part two, which very

943
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: excited again to get to on Friday. You'll tune in

944
00:57:56,280 --> 00:58:01,080
Speaker 1: to hear the rest of Marguerite Steinheil's situation and Aidolf.

945
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: Two of them are both heavily featured. Um. I'd say

946
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:07,160
Speaker 1: the second half is more about their relationship in some

947
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: ways than it is about then the first half was

948
00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:15,160
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949
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952
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