Considering I just arrived in Paris last Friday, and will be studying here for the next\u00c2\u00a0semester, I thought it would be fun to compile some of my favorite things about French history:<\/p>\n
– In 1560, while walking down a street in France, a man was mugged. \u00c2\u00a0While the thief tried to flee the gentleman pulled out his sword (remember, 16th Century) and cut off the bastard\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ear. \u00c2\u00a0The gentleman was then subsequently sued by the local executioner for the right to own the ear because technically it would have been his job to cut it off had the thief then been arrested and tried. <\/span><\/p>\n – Napoleon wore a black handkerchief around his neck for every battle except for one, where his black handkerchief was accidentally thrown in the wash and he was forced to wear a white silk cravat. \u00c2\u00a0That battle was Waterloo. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n – People familiar with the Kirsten Dunst 2006 feel good hit of the year, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Marie Antoinette,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of course know that Marie and Louis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s marriage was not\u00c2\u00a0consummated\u00c2\u00a0in a time frame pleasing to Maria Therese. \u00c2\u00a0In fact, it took over 7 years before the deed was done. \u00c2\u00a0There are many theories as to why this took so long; for a long time it was thought that Louis XVI had a condition wherein his foreskin was too tight, making sex painful, but was given an operation after 7 years that would have fixed this. \u00c2\u00a0However, recent examinations of his very meticulously taken hunting diaries show no breaks that would have been necessary for the healing process, so who knows. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n – Shortly before his retirement (the real one. \u00c2\u00a0For those unfamiliar, retirement for de Gaulle was like a Cher farewell tour. \u00c2\u00a0Never actually the last one) him and his wife were visiting with English friends. \u00c2\u00a0In response to the question as to what she looked forward to the most after her husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s retirement, de Gaulle\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a penis.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00c2\u00a0After some awkward silence, de Gaulle corrected his wife \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My dear, I think the English don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pronounce the word quite like that. \u00c2\u00a0It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcappiness.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Considering I just arrived in Paris last Friday, and will be studying here for the next\u00c2\u00a0semester, I thought it would be fun to compile some of my favorite things about French history: – In 1560, while walking down a street in France, a man was mugged. \u00c2\u00a0While the thief tried to flee the gentleman pulled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2145"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2145\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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