The Haunting of Palace of Versailles
Returning to the show tonight is author Rebecca Pittman who's here to discuss her new book called The Haunting of Palace of Versailles.
It was a palace of the Kings of France; the creation of the Sun King, Louis XIV. The marvel of all Europe it soon became a gilded cage for the monarchs and the courtiers who lived there. The saga of Versailles is filled with intrigue, scandal, glory, and tragedy. It is here that the nobility of France manipulated and poisoned their way to the top. Marriages, deaths, mistresses, secret passageways, and betrayal---it all added up to the French Revolution that cost Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette their heads. Yet it is also within these opulent walls that we find the dreams of those who conquered Europe through military campaigns or outsmarting their own bloodline. No one was safe. No one was exempt from the King's spies who secretly opened letters and reported on every move within the palace and grounds.
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Start your free seven-day trial and unlock this episode plus hundreds more, all ad-free when you become a Mysterian on Patreon. There was just this oppressive atmosphere that came over both of them.
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They didn't mention it to each other at the time. They started noticing old farming implements, some peasant girls shaking a rug out a window of some of the little buildings,
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just a whole bunch of stuff that just seemed very odd to them. And finally, they came upon these three men in the liveries or the costumes of Marie Antoinette's period.
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It was the colors of the liveries that the soldiers wore. And they said, are we on the right trail? They thought they'd gotten lost and we're trying to find the Petit Trianon.
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And they said, yes, it's through that gate over there.
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So they go through the gate and they come upon Unlock this episode right now by clicking on the link for your free seven-day trial in the show notes or by visiting MysteriousRadio.com.
