Ed Helms
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yeah.
A three hour bath with three glazed gooses.
My sense of it, and keep in mind, I'm very much falling into the amateur historian category, but my sense of it is that this is a scaled-back version of that.
So in Versailles, it was a mess.
Like, it was so decadent, the parties, all of the insanity.
Leading up to this, there had been protest march where they actually grabbed the royal family and marched them to Paris.
And this was a very humbling experience.
And so, yes, they are still in a palace.
They're still technically royalty.
They're still trying to hash out this shared leadership idea, the constitutional monarchy.
So they're still acting like a king and queen.
And so I do think there are glazed gooses in the mix and there are β
crowns and fancy attire, but it's not quite what it was very recently in Versailles.
They've been humbled and they're now scared.
So the plan they hatch is quite bold.
It's like total cloak and dagger stuff.
Louis was...
planned to be disguised as a valet, Marie as a governess.
And they would they were posing as the entourage of this of this fake Russian baron.
And they would slip out of Paris in the dark of night.