Ep. 105 The Marriage of Figaro and Elly Uncomposed with Valerie Niemerg
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The Wadasenieur and the French Revolution
The wadasenieur was this feudal right in which a landowner kind of had wedding night rights to the virgins on his property or in his employ. And that went on for centuries in this feudal system, and it's slowly breaking down in this century. Little by little landowners are coming out and publicly saying, you know, that's this landowner is an example of that.
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