June 17, 2026
About 100 spectators would gather into the bedchambers of Louis XIV of France (aka the “Sun King”) each day to watch his grand getting up ceremony, which involved getting dressed and eating soup.
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On September 5, 1793, a group of Parisian radicals petitioned the National Convention to place “terror on the order of the day.” Seizing that mandate, the Committee of Public Safety in Paris responded with ruthless efficiency to real and perceived threats to its rule. By the time the Reign of
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