Hey guys, this is Mel. If you're listening to this, you are about to hear a super special sneak peek of our latest bonus episode. But fair warning, this is just a sneak peek. Don't hurt us. It's totally optional to subscribe, but if you're interested, you can check out our Patreon by searching significant lovers. Patreon Online. Hope you enjoy. Well, thank you for joining. Today's episode is quite different. We're talking about an arranged marriage.
I haven't done that before. And it's between Marie Antoinette and Louis, the 16th of France, King and queen, Last King and queen of France and. My sister Caitlin actually picked this episode because she I feel like we talk about her a lot, but she does a lot for us. She does our YouTube just out of the kindness of her heart, runs it. For some reason, she's. Our biggest fan? She listens to the episodes right away and gives us advice. She. Yeah, I asked her what, What
would you want me to cover? And she said this. So hope you like it, Caitlin. You know, you might think, oh, 1700s, this is going to be boring, but. I assure you that it's not, that it's crazy and that people back then acted crazier than people today. So yeah, they had like, almost no morals. Yeah, well, in some ways they had so many morals, but just the things that they did, you know, we would not do today. So, Mel, do you know anything about this couple? I just want to. Know.
OK, good. Just that. Weren't they kind of bad? I don't. I mean, we'll get into it. They were OK. So this is going to have a tragic ending, sadly, very tragic ending. They. Oh, she beheaded. They. Both were beheaded by the guillotine, but I don't think it was deserved. And even though it's a tragic ending, Marie Antoinette loved life. She's a lover of life. She had a lot of fun, so I think she would want us to have fun. Until we get to that tragic ending, OK. But yeah, cool.
Because I've listened to like, a lot of history podcasts over the years, so I don't know, like what people know about them. So that's good. It's good that you don't know she's let. Them eat cake. She is. She is. She. Is known for saying that, but she apparently did not ever say that. She didn't. Say it. She's misquoted. She's misquoted. Oh, that's it. Because. That's a kind of a bitchy thing, that, she said Yes, she said it, yeah. The French people were starving.
This is around the time of the French Revolution and the quote is supposed to be that, oh, people can't even afford bread and she said let them eat cake, but that is not true. She did not say that That saying actually wasn't a story way before her time. Like it's. It's a quote. It's a saying that predates her, so. Do people think it's something
that she would have said? I think they do think it's something that she would have said, but no, the quote wasn't associated with her until like 50 years after her death. So wow. That's kind of annoying. I know. And it's like her most famous quote and she didn't even say. It that's annoying. But she, you know, she's known for her.
Huge hair. There is the Sofia Coppola movie with Kirsten Dunst, which is a weird coincidence because we just did Priscilla last week, but Oh yeah, I think that's great. Casting with her is my Antoinette and what's his name? Jason Schwartzman is Louis. But yeah, it is a tragic ending, but it's it's going to be fun before we get there. And it's kind of a raunchy episode, by the way. Oh, La La. I love it. We. We pretty TMI. Like, Oh my gosh, my cup of tea
I love. That about the bedroom situation, so it's yeah, maybe you don't listen to it like at work, out loud, unless your work is cool with that. But if you have headphones, it's fine, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But it's going to be, it's going to be talk about sex. In this episode, and yeah, Marie Antoinette and Louis the 16th were an arranged marriage.
And it is known, even if you don't know that much about them, people kind of know that they weren't exactly the most romantic couple, like head over heels in love with each other. But my main question when I was researching this episode was, did they ever come to love each other at all, even a little bit? Any feelings of love or friendship? And that was kind of my like, mystery that I was
investigating. And I asked you guys on our Patreon, I think we're going to start doing this is like a not habit a. Tradition. Tradition. I asked. A poll, I said. Do you think it's possible to fall in love with anyone if you got to know them well enough? But I clarified not, not like a horrible person, not not Hitler like a normal person. And 55% of you said yes and 45% said no. Interesting.
I need to think about that. I heard that you know that you can fall in love with anyone assuming that they're not an evil person just by be having an open mind and spending a lot of time with them. But. It's so hard though, because then some people can be in love and then fall out of love. So. I feel like you could grow to love someone, but maybe you won't be per SE in love with them. But you might have a lot of fondness. All right, I will have to stop the episode right there.
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