The lovely Miss Puddy accompanied me to France this past June. We went to Normandy for a conference and then onto Paris for a week. Our daughter and her boyfriend met us in Paris and we encamped in an apartment one block NE of the Louvre. One day we all went to Versailles and toured the palace and the grounds. I tried to explain how it all came to be to my daughter. I showed her where the peasants stormed the palace and entered the queen’s bedroom. Can you imagine what the starving peasants of Paris must have thought upon seeing the excesses at the palace of Versailles? How exactly do you explain how one of the greatest powers in the world at the time arrived at that point?
A rich aristocracy living in the most lavish of circumstances while the general population starved. I thought about it for a while and as usual it all made more sense when viewed through the lens of money; or to be more exact, money mischief.Lire dans 24hgold.com
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