[Don W]

L’etat, c’est moi!

Louis XVI.

He was soon removed, IIRC

[j.havenfarm]

A correction: that was said by Louis XIV, the Sun King, most majestic French king ever. He also didn’t bathe and courtiers preferred to leave the windows open, such was his stink. Across the Channel, in his late years when Henry VIII had persistent ulcers on his legs that wouldnt heal, apparently the stink was so bad you could smell it two rooms away.

So Macron’s a step up

[j.havenfarm]

Another Louis XIV fun fact: he loved sweets, though sugar was a luxury most couldn’t afford. It rotted his teeth. A bungled tooth extraction left a whole in his jaw, connection to his sinuses, so when he desk the fluid would frequently come out his nose

[Bigg Red]

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