Battle Royale: French Monarchs

Unfortunately due to sickness and technical difficulties we've been unable to get the episode out as soon as we wanted, but Louis XVI's episode will be released next week!

Thank you to our lovely listeners for all your patience.

Episode 61 – Louis XV The Sun King was a hard act to follow, and with France tiptoeing towards Revolution, how did Louis XV, “the well-beloved” respond to the endless wars, scandals and financial crises of t…

Listen to our latest episode to found out how this "well-beloved" king steered France through the fraught but fabulous 18th Century.

61 - Louis XV, Part 1 Battle Royale: French Monarchs · Episode

Louis XV has arrived! After him, the deluge...

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The Lord(s) have risen!

60 - Louis XIV, Part 1 Battle Royale: French Monarchs · Episode

The Sun King has risen!

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There will be blood! It's time for the Red Eminence himself...

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What with listening to @gregjenner.bsky.social host a podcast about run up to British Civil Wars and @battleroyale.bsky.social doing Louis XIII, I'm basically reliving my History A Level about 20 years later. I keep remembering things I made notes about just as someone says key phrases.

We've already got an Edgar the Peaceable and it's Louis IX 😅

Sorry to disappoint. 😭 I have a feeling we might come to regret this decision. But hopefully the fact we covered him at all will help redeem him! This period is so overlooked in general.

He does! You know he's up to no good 😉

No idea who that is and Google won't tell me

Also I was trying to make a joke about how the full-figured "Rubenesque" beauty standards aligns roughly with the rise of opera (which is stereotyped as having "fat ladies" as primadonnas). Maybe a poorly worded joke on my part, but I was not trying to imply causality there.

Opera, ballet and theatre in general are things that gradually evolve from the Middle Ages and were not invented under Louis XIV. I'm not a music buff but I gather the word "opera" had a different meaning (lit. "work" in Italian) so it could honestly mean anything. But it's there in the 1500s.

It was fleetingly mentioned in the sources I read but here's an article that mentions her and Henry IV patronising Giulio Caccini and Jacopo Peri. Obviously these are Italian not French composers, and it would not have been opera as we recognise it. indianapublicmedia.org/harmonia/cen....

Episode 59 – Louis XIII The Louis XIII of Alexandre Dumas’s “The Three Musketeers” is a comically naïve and easily manipulated do-nothing king, dominated by his scheming chief minister Cardinal Richelieu…

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Episode 58 – Henry IV We’re back!!! And we’re starting off a new royal line with Henry IV, the first Bourbon king. Is this stinky, ill-mannered heretic really the hero France has been waiting for after 30 ye…

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Make sure you listen to our epic 2-parter on the life and reign of Henry IV!

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48.5 - Joan of Arc (Part 1) - Battle Royale: French Monarchs The Maid of Orléans is well-known for having taken the intricate chessboard of the Hundred Years' War, tipped it upside down, kicked it across a field and scored a game-changing goal for the Blues af...

A wild Joan of Arc appears!
Stay tuned for Part 2 next week!!!
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Episode 48 – Charles VI It's now time to review the life and deeds of the "mad king" himself, Charles VI. In this episode, we talk about what the king was like before his mental illness took over, and what the darkest period...

It’s now time to review the life and deeds of the “mad king” himself, Charles VI. In this episode, we talk about what the king was like before his mental illness took over, and what the darkest period of the Hundred Years’ War was like from his tragic perspective.

Those dastardly dukes!

Regency of Madness: Episode 5/5 Our final two Regents of Madness bring the Hundred Year's War to its apotheosis. Henry V's brother Bedford was Charles VI's regent at the very end of his life, but Ben has uncovered that this English ...

Our final two Regents of Madness bring the Hundred Year’s War to its apotheosis.

Also, it's VOTING TIME!

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Regency of Madness: Episode 4/5 Katy from Queens Podcast joins us for the showdown of showdowns: Isabeau of Bavaria VS Yolande of Aragon, the Queen of France VS the "Queen of Four Kingdoms". As we go through their lives, we see th...

Katy from Queens Podcast joins us to explore the Hundred Years' War from the perspective of two fabulous (and frustrated!) queens: Isabeau of Bavaria and Yolande of Aragon.

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Regency of Madness: Episode 3/5 Josh Zucker from the Grand Dukes of the West podcast joins us to talk about yet another Duke of Burgundy, John the Fearless. And while John may not match his father for statecraft or shrewdness, he ...

Josh from @valoisburgundy.bsky.social joins us yet again, this time to pit the John the Fearless and Tough-Guy Armagnac together in an all-out civil war, because we needed more distractions from the English invasion.

Veronica from Passed podcast joins us to talk Berry and Bourbon. Together, they're the "nice" uncles of Charles VI, and a great idea for a cocktail!

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In what has turned out to be a very productive week, I've given our website a bit of a makeover, with some lovely new graphics and layouts. Go check it out! Our score leaderboard has also been fully updated.
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We first judge our monarchs with the shallow category "Enchanté", which means "nice to meet you" in French.Although 9 out of 10 times, it was not nice for El... Enchanté Compilation (Merovingians and Carolingians)

Please enjoy this compilation of Eliza's first impressions of our early Frankish kings. A truly hilarious time. 😆

Also nice to know France never payed the full ransom, and never will!!

As we say on our podcast, at least Jean had a nice holiday. 😂

In our latest episode, we start delving into the regents of the "mad" King Charles VI with special guest Josh from Grand Dukes of the West (@valoisburgundy.bsky.social). Things are about to get... fiery...

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