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After my divorce, I bought a new home and named it Seth House--a nod to Eve’s son born after Able’s tragic demise.
My cousin was 15 lbs and his twin sisters were 7 lbs each. But 12 lbs is a big baby for back then.
Listening to this on the anniversary of her death.
Ok...in the Mary Cassatt episode, right after you say the end..someone very very quietly says ”be extra careful”. ??? Kinda creepy.
As an ardent GWTW fan happy to say how much I loved this.
Fannie Farmer‘s story is so inspiring and I didn‘t even know she was a real person. She is a great example of triumph over adversity and changing the world for the better in the process. Thank you, girls for your podcast its obviously you do a lot of research and as a listener, I am grateful.
It was never Charles VII who was victorious. Joan’s work was completed by the Bretons, especially Arthur de Richemont, Constable of France, who wasn’t allowed to attend Charles’ coronation, even though it was standard protocol and Joan of Arc specifically asked for him to be invited. Charles was in every way an undeserving and ungrateful king. To save France, Arthur eventually had to seize power in a bloodless palace coup, reform royal finances, retrain the entire army & create the Ordonnances.
Nicole de Chatillon et de Blois, one of the wealthiest women in Europe, married Jean de Brosse II, a pauper, expressly to lift him from poverty, because his father had sold everything to raise armies in two attempts to rescue Joan of Arc.
Yolande of Aragon, another remarkable woman, was Joan’s patron and also the patron of Arthur de Richemont.
companion at arms, who set aside her earnest face to laugh at his jokes, and whose death he must avenge.
Arthur de Richemont would remember Joan as the young woman whom Yolande of Aragon hired as his
I love the way you guys make history fun. And I love you guys and my kitty ”motorboat” says hi