The Party to End Nicolas Fouquet's Career
Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.7 • 13.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In August 1661, the superintendent of finance in France threw the party of the century. In September, he was arrested. The lesson: don't fly too close to the sun (king).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Brett Goldstein. I'm a comedian and actor, writer, director, |
| 0:03.5 | swimmer, and I love films. Come join me on my podcast, Films to Be Barried With, |
| 0:07.6 | where I invite a special guest over, I tell them they've died, then I get them to discuss |
| 0:11.5 | their life through the films that meant the most to them. What films scared them the most? |
| 0:14.8 | What made them cry the most? Etc. At the end, they pick a film to go and |
| 0:18.4 | neck-puff in and take to heaven. Like, death, and movies. |
| 0:21.8 | Listen to films to be buried with with Brett Goldstein on Will Ferrell's big money |
| 0:25.2 | players network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.4 | Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of iHeartRadio and Grim and Mild from Aaron Manky, |
| 0:36.5 | listener discretion advised. |
| 0:41.1 | Hey guys, this is Dana Schwartz, the host and creator of The Podcast You're Listening to Noble Blood. |
| 0:47.6 | Just a quick note before we start. If you like this podcast, I think you'll like the books I've |
| 0:55.1 | written. I wrote a novel called Anatomy a Love Story and just this year, The Sequel, |
| 1:00.3 | Immortality a Love Story came out. And both books tell the story of a young woman in the 19th |
| 1:06.8 | century who wants to become a surgeon. So it was really inspired by just my love and obsession |
| 1:12.6 | about the transition that happened in surgery in the early 1800s. And in The Sequel, |
| 1:19.2 | Immortality a Love Story. If you haven't read it yet, there are a lot of, I'll say celebrity |
| 1:25.4 | cameos from historical figures that I've covered on this podcast. So absolutely check it out. |
| 1:31.6 | There's a link to buy it in the episode description. And thank you so much. |
| 1:37.3 | It was the most magnificent party that France had ever seen. On August 17, 1661, the |
| 1:58.8 | Poussou of French society traveled to a country estate called Valle Vicompt, which was owned by |
| 2:07.0 | Nicolas Fouquet, France's super-intendant of finance. Valle Vicompt was, without a doubt, the most |
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