78. France; The Enemy; Part 1

You can send a text, include contact info to get a response. An intro to France during the reign of Louis XIV. The focus this episode is the peasantry and the nobility of the sword. For the peasants, life may not be Mordor, but it is far harder and more exploited than we might assume. The effort here is to shake the mindset of France as an idyllic setting for the 75% who are peasants. Materially, life is not greatly improved for the peasants since Roman times. The...