Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky,

listener discretion advised.

A warning before we begin, this week's episode contains mentions of graphic sex and sexual

violence.

If that's not something you want to listen to or if you are a younger listener, I would

encourage you to skip this episode maybe and come back next week.

Revolution was brewing in Paris.

There were mobs in the city streets and on July 1st, 1789, if anyone in those mobs happened

to look up at the Bastille, they would have seen a man, a prisoner standing in the window

of his cell on the 6th floor, shouting down at them.

Save the prisoners the man yelled, their throats are being slashed, they're being murdered,

you must help.

They were dramatic words, words that the prisoner was hoping would incite action.

In actuality, the prison was nearly empty, the man shouting down from his window was the

only prisoner remaining in his tower.

He was short and wide, raggedly dressed as you might expect.

If the mob on the street had squinted, they might have seen that the prisoner was holding

an object to his mouth like a modern day megaphone, a metallic funnel.

Even if they had seen the object, the people on the street probably would not have guessed

that the funnel was a piece of the prisoner's urinal.

Though of course use of the urinal funnel to magnify his voice was entirely functional

in this case, the fact that this man happened to be holding an object associated with bodily

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