In Part II of Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Jamie and Sofia talk about chocolate, rock-paper-scissors, royal mistresses, and their grading of the history and the movie.

Sources:

Chocolate:

The Field Museum, Chocolate Exhibit.

JM Blaut, The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. Guilford Press, 1993

Kate Loveman, “The Introduction of Chocolate Into England: Retailers, Researchers, and Consumers, 1640-1730,” Journal of Social History 47, 1 (Fall 2013) pp. 27-46.

Rock-Paper-Scissors:

"Rock Paper Scissors". TeachingHistory.org.

Peter Erdi. Ranking: The Unwritten Rules of the Social Game We All Play. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.

1927 description of Chi-Fou-Mi

1966 French intro video on Chi-Fou-Mi made by ORTF (National Audiovisual Institute, France)

Royal Mistresses: 

Kathleen Wellman, Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France. Yale University Press, 2013.

Excerpts from Rictor Norton, My Dear Boy: Gay Love Letters Through the Centuries.