Joel Warner
speaker
443 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 14 Apr
Joel Warner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's writing more.
horrific books justine or julietta but then eventually napoleon you know napoleon comes back and napoleon's not too fond of this guy so after some of the more calmer more successful kind of years of his life he's locked away again this time it's more in the frame of mental asylums that's kind of where he spends the rest of his days for a while he ends up running the theater department
at one of these, one of the asylums, which became the inspiration for Quills, right?
Because that's about him.
Exactly.
And so apparently for a while, the cream of society would travel out of Paris to see these theatrical performances put on by people who were at that point considered certifiably insane.
Yes.
Amazingly, he outlives the reign of the king and the reign of terror and even Napoleon's empire and, you know, ends up passing away in 1814.
So talk about being an escape artist.
Yes.
Yes.
According to his written testament, he said he wanted his grave to be hidden away in the forest and have acorns scattered on it so that all memory of him would be washed away.
It's hard.
I don't know.
This guy had a very high esteem for himself, so I don't know how much of that was... Doesn't sound like something he'd do, does it?
Yes.
But of course, this doesn't happen.
He's buried in the asylum cemetery.
A few years later, his bones were dug up and the phrenologist got a hold of his skull and made all sorts of completely varying pronouncements about what his skull suggested about him.
And that was really the beginning of kind of the myth of Sod.
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