Welcome back! We saved you your favorite spot in the Smoke Circle! Spark up and get curious as the sisters are back together for another themed episode. Kt requested French history for this episode and we have a lot of stories for you! First up, Laurel has a top 5 list of "Most Oui-diculous (get it?!) Moments in French History. Ranging from history's shortest monarchy to hallucinogenic bread, diamond scandals, blackmailed kings, a man who would eat LITERALLY anything.

After the break, KT comes back with some literary history about one of her favorite places in the world: Notre Dame de Paris and the book by Victor Hugo which shares its name-- The Hunchback of Notre Dame!

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Mentioned in the Episode:

⁠Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo

"The Bells of Notre Dame"

"Hellfire"

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Source Materials--

Top 5 Oui-diculous French History--

https://www.rct.uk/collection/405142/louis-antoine-duke-of-angouleme-1775-1844-0

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-10996838

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/how-deadly-bread-bewitched-a-french-village-123126177/

https://www.history.com/articles/chevalier-d-eon-french-spy-man-woman

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/desire-love-and-identity/chevalier-deon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevali%C3%A8re_d%27%C3%89on

https://www.history.com/articles/marie-antoinette-diamond-necklace-affair-french-revolution

https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/affair-diamond-necklace-1784-1785

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161014-the-man-who-couldnt-stop-eating

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrare#CITEREFBondeson2006

Hunchback of Notre Dame--

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25419423#:~:text=France%20has%20possibly%20the%20harshest,kind%20of%20pressure%20in%20France

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG9c9cxCBww#:~:text=About%2020000%20ethnic%20Roma%20are%20living%20in,you%20think%20about%20Roma?%20More%20on%20dw.de/lifelinks

https://www.worldhistory.org/Romani/#:~:text=Romani%20is%20an%20umbrella%20term,%2C%20cultural%2C%20and%20ethnic%20diversity

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/who-are-the-roma-people

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunchback_of_Notre-Dame

https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame

https://www.historydefined.net/who-was-the-real-hunchback-of-notre-dame/

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Intro/outro music: "Loopster" by Kevin MacLeod (⁠incompetech.com⁠) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/