2024-07-30
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You will not have her because you are a great nobleman.
You think you are a great genius.
Nobility, fortune, rank, position, how proud they make a man feel.
What have you done to deserve such advantage?
Put yourself to the trouble of being born, nothing more.
For the rest, a very ordinary man, whereas I, lost among the obscure crowd, have had to deploy more knowledge, more calculation and skill merely to survive than has sufficed to rule all the provinces of Spain for a century.
Yet you, Tom Olland, would measure yourself against me.
So that, Tom, is the most famous speech in the most celebrated and controversial play that was staged in the reign of Louis XVI.
And that play is ze Mardet, or the marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchaisde.
And that first appeared in April 1784.
And today's episode is about the scandal of the diamond necklace.
So before we get into the diamond necklace and what it means for Marion Toinette, for Louis XVI and for the French Revolution, tell us why you've chosen to kick off with the marriage of Figaro and what is going on.
That was excellent reading.
Oh, thank you.
I loved the kind of the Gallic.
LAUGHTER yeah.
But Dominic, I mean, just one thing.