Episode List
68.5 - Adélaïde d'Orléans, Part 2
Adélaïde’s continued work behind the scenes will quietly shape French history from 1830 through to 1847, and yet history seems to have tried to erase her contribution. Does she deserve to sit alongside the great matriarchs of French history that came before her? ⚜️ Visit our website for episode images, score summaries and more! Contact us by Email, or follow us on Instagram, our Facebook Group or BlueSky. Make sure you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. You can also support the show on Patreon! Join the official Angry Mob and get access to ad-free episodes and bonus content, including our exclusive spinoff series rating the Royal Mistresses. ⚜️ This episode features a musical excerpt from the ballet "La fille mal gardée" by Lanchbery Hérold, performed by Barry Wordsworth and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra (℗ A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1983 Parlophone Records Ltd.) Battle Royale's intro/outro music is "Dansez" by Fasion. Go check out more of their stuff here. ⚜️ Details of our 5 categories used to rate the French Monarchs can be found on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
68.5 - Adélaïde d'Orléans, Part 1
This unassuming spinster who "won the throne for her house" through sheer tenacity and courage. This episode, we cover the House of Orléans's history, and Adélaïde's long and often tragic life up to the heady days of the July Revolution, when she vowed to "share the fate of the Parisians". ⚜️ Visit our website for episode images, score summaries and more! Contact us by Email, or follow us on Instagram, our Facebook Group or BlueSky. Make sure you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. You can also support the show on Patreon! Join the official Angry Mob and get access to ad-free episodes and bonus content, including our exclusive spinoff series rating the Royal Mistresses. ⚜️ Battle Royale's intro music is "Dansez" by Fasion. Go check out more of their stuff here. Today's outro music is an excerpt from François-Adrien Boieldieu's "Concerto for Harp and Orchestra in C: 3. Rondo (Allegro agitato)", performed by harpist Marisa Robles and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, released 1990. ℗ Decca Music Group Limited. ⚜️ Details of our 5 categories used to rate the French Monarchs can be found on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
68 - Louis XIX, ft. Marie-Thérèse
The Duke and Duchess of Angoulême finally take centre stage... for possibly the shortest reign in world history. As the last surviving Bourbons of their generation, these mismatched cousins struggled to be the power couple the nation needed. ⚜️ Visit our website for episode images, score summaries and more! Contact us by Email, or follow us on Instagram, our Facebook Group or BlueSky. Make sure you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. You can also support the show on Patreon! Join the official Angry Mob and get access to ad-free episodes and bonus content, including our exclusive spinoff series rating the Royal Mistresses. ⚜️ Music used in this episode included a piano rendition of Mozart's "Lacrimosa", perfromed by Soviet pianist Maria Yudina in 1954. Battle Royale's intro/outro music is "Dansez" by Fasion. Go check out more of their stuff here. ⚜️ Details of our 5 categories used to rate the French Monarchs can be found on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
67 - Charles X, Part 2
This episode, Charles meets his ultimate fate in the wake of the much-anticipated July Revolution. ⚜️ Visit our website for episode images, score summaries and more! Contact us by Email, or follow us on Instagram, our Facebook Group or BlueSky. Make sure you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. You can also support the show on Patreon! Join the official Angry Mob and get access to ad-free episodes and bonus content, including our exclusive spinoff series rating the Royal Mistresses. ⚜️ Battle Royale's intro/outro music is "Dansez" by Fasion. Go check out more of their stuff here. ⚜️ Details of our 5 categories used to rate the French Monarchs can be found on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
67 - Charles X, Part 1
Charles, comte d'Artois, has been a meddlesome troublemaker for the last 50 years of French history - surviving exiles, wars and revolutions like a cockroach. What fresh hell will ensue now that he finally has the chance to be king? ⚜️ Battle Royale's intro music is "Dansez" by Fasion. Go check out more of their stuff here. This episode's outro music is a short excerpt from Luigi Cherubini's "Mass for the Coronation of Charles X: I. Kyrie", performed by Riccardo Muti and Philharmonia Chorus, from "Cherubini: Masses, Overtures & Motets" ℗ A Warner Classics release, ℗ 1985 Parlophone Records Limited. ⚜️ Visit our website for episode images, score summaries and more! Contact us by Email, or follow us on Instagram, our Facebook Group or BlueSky. Make sure you leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen. You can also support the show on Patreon! Join the official Angry Mob and get access to ad-free episodes and bonus content, including our exclusive spinoff series rating the Royal Mistresses. ⚜️ Details of our 5 categories used to rate the French Monarchs can be found on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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