History is Criminal

A Con Woman and a Royal Face Plant: Jeanne de la Motte


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What do you do when ancient laws and biology cut your family out of the royal line. Well if you are Jeanne de la Motte you fake it until you make. Or until it all come crashing down like a guillotine on Louis XVI oversized neck.

Join Kim and I as we jump back to 1790s France and a con artist who would try to make the royal court her mark, and in the process add to the insanity causing the French Revolution.

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History is CriminalBy Mick Bittick