Posted on 12/28/2018 7:38:52 AM PST by Kaslin
It took a couple of generations for the French court to get its comeuppance.
It was a century and two reigns between Louis XIV and Louis XVI.
To a degree the court of Louis XVI was less crassly snobby than that of a century earlier, when it was very new and extremely extreme.
The ways of European courts of the 17th-18th century, any of them, are strange, alien, but yet in some ways very familiar.
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