Gotta love Kenny's videos! I too immediately had the same thought, good to know it's kinda confirmed

Well, her great-great-grandson voted for the beheading of Louis XVI so on top off sexual scandals and reckless spending, you can add betrayal to the list

Or, it could have been the cause of the collapse./s.

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For all that want to read about Catherine de Medici: The Serpent Queen by Jeanne Kalogardis(sp?) And there's a good one about Diane De Poitiers that I'll go find for anyone that one for anyone that wants it once I recover from my asthma attack.

I originally thought Amish, but always assumed they came over at the same time as the wider PA Dutch.

Is this where they got the name/idea for the superhero? Kenny Lauderdale has a good video about him on Youtube, though the cigarette brand wasn't mentioned if I remember (which I probably don't).

edit: looks like wiki doesn't even have an article on the superhero, only the cigarette brand.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/GoldenBat

edit: The wiki page is under the japanese name of "Ogon bat".

Apparently he was named after the cigarette band, according to this one archived article.

Can anyone recommend some good history books (no historical fiction please unless it's ridiculously amazing, I'm not a lover of romance writing and his-fic tends to be lousy with it) on Liselotte in particular or something about the court at the time that includes a sizable section about her?

It's also worth noting that the Portuguese attempted to start a Japanese slave trade, and openly interfered with internal Japanese politics.

I was unable to find a map that included dates, however this first picture in the Wikipedia on the Bronze age collapse shows the different incursions from different factions, and from that with a little extra research one might be able to get a general idea of when the cities fell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse

The map I referred to was traced back to this website, of course with the internet not everything is completely accurate or definite, but from this picture you are looking at most of the major civil centers of the world at the time being reduced to nothing, which is crazy to think about.

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/bronze-age-sites.jpg

Tbh, it bothered me to no end how skinny all the women were in a historical drama about one of the fatest, by choice even, courts in history.

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The fact that she thought her letters would be destroyed makes them so personal. She out wrote in correspondence the famously prolific Montesquieu...but she wasn't writing in his highly stylized manner meant for posterity, so it's really revealing about the quotidian life of nobles of the court.

Thank you for clarifying this because until this comment I thought she was running a whorehouse

He was such an ass to Henriette. But a lot of people were. The French court was just awful, it chewed up some of the best women of the nobility (and men, but I'm deep diving into Catherine Medici, so I'm feeling salty about the Medici women in France).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bat_(cigarette)

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I believe Monsieur was gay and she was also considered as very masculine, there was a saying about them: "Monsieur est tres 'madame' et Madame est tres 'monsieur' ", can't do better than translating it by "Monsieur is very 'madame' and Madame is very 'monsieur' ".

what attracted mostly my attention, besides the photo, was the phrase: it constitutes the earliest known depiction of a narrative ‘scene'

No the Quakers oriignaiuted in England, I mean t the Mennonites, Amish, Ephrata 7th Day Baptists, Schwenkfelders etc. , evne the Moravians were almsot plain-style int hsoe days. The Brehtren/Dunkards cmae over later becuase they originated later

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What about more recent times? In the Modern Age and in contemporary times?

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She wrote her own memoirs, they’re freely availabke on Gutenberg and google books. Very entertaining 200~ pages.

If you’re still interested in the era afterwards, it’s time to read saint simon, the “king” of memoirs and the primary source for the late sun king rule and the regency.

There’s a TV show called Versailles that has her as a character, it’s pretty good if you like period piece dramas.