Even the Royals: Marie Antoinette | Fight Song | 216

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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In Part One, Marie Antoinette came to France as a teenager and ended up getting her name dragged through the mud. Marie’s determination to prove to her people that she’s a queen who deserves respect is about to dig her grave that much faster. Now, she’s not just in a fight for her image – she’s in a fight for her life.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
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0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts.
0:07.4	A quick note about our show.
0:09.7	While some scenes are dramatized, we promise we did our homework and everything is based on facts.
0:15.0	And in today's story, heads will roll and not just because of the swearing, please be advised. It's October 1789.
0:27.0	It's October 1789.
0:29.0	The morning sun rises above the palace at Versailles.
0:32.0	Marie Antoinette squints at the light. The sun rises above the palace at Versailles.
0:33.0	Marie Antoinette squints at the light and smushes her face back into the pillow.
0:37.8	It's been another sleepless night.
0:40.0	She should get blackout curtains.
0:41.5	Oh, cannot say enough good things about those things.
0:44.8	Same.
0:45.6	But she doesn't have them.
0:47.3	And she perks up when she hears her lady in waiting
0:50.0	drawing a bath in the next room.
0:52.3	Marie's been battling depression for months,
0:54.4	and all she wants to do is slip under the hot water
0:57.2	and let it wash away her mood.
0:59.2	And then she hears a commotion out in the garden.
1:02.8	She pulls on her robe and looks out the window.
	...

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