The Pretty Prime Minister (with Jennifer Wright)
Noble Blood
iHeartPodcasts and Grim & Mild
4.7 • 13.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
TW: This episode contains discussions of violence towards children that might be disturbing for some listeners.
For decades, one woman was the heart and soul of Versailles: Madame de Pompadour. Dana speaks with Jennifer Wright (author of Madame Restell) about the courtier's rise to the King's Mistress and her strengths as a diplomat and great party guest.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm and Mild from Aaron Manky, |
| 0:06.1 | listener discretion advised. |
| 0:17.5 | Hello, this is Dana Schwartz and this is a very special episode of Noble Blood because I am joined |
| 0:23.0 | by my very good friend, the incredibly talented, truly brilliant writer, Jennifer Wright. |
| 0:28.9 | Dana, I am so happy to be here. Jennifer, you are just an incredible history writer. You've written |
| 0:35.2 | a few of my favorite books Get Well Soon, which is a book about history's worst plagues and the heroes |
| 0:42.4 | that fought. I was going to say a very topical pre-pandemic subject. Yeah, in retrospect, I should not |
| 0:49.2 | have leaked the Wuhan virus. Yeah, it was too much viral marketing on my part. I was going to say |
| 0:55.6 | but it did probably boost book sales. Yeah, also just to be clear, that was that was a joke. That's |
| 0:59.6 | not how and nothing actually happened. Jennifer is a lovely human being who is not involved in |
| 1:04.4 | anything COVID related. You wrote the book, it ended badly. 13 of the worst historical breakups. |
| 1:10.4 | One of my favorite books because it covers one of my favorite historical couples, Caroline Lamb and |
| 1:15.4 | Lord Byron. I was going to say I remember years ago talking about Caroline Lamb chopping off |
| 1:20.1 | pubic hair and sending it to Lord Byron to try to win him back. It's that move what I relate to so |
| 1:25.9 | profoundly is when you're so in love with someone who clearly is not interested but you're like, |
| 1:31.6 | you keep having to up the stakes to get their attention. You've got to go for broke. You've got to |
| 1:35.3 | chop off all your pubic hair and send it to them in the mail. It's the equivalent. If I could show you |
| 1:39.7 | some of the emails I wrote to like a boy, when I was like 22, stopped responding to my text. Yeah, |
| 1:46.0 | like some of the emails that I wrote are just like, I never want to see them again. I hope they |
| 1:50.6 | are the equivalent of pubic hair. Oh, I wrote like multi-thousand word emails to people I had just |
| 1:55.8 | broken up with just trying to like break down every part of our relationship but also get back |
| 2:01.3 | together. Why did I think that would work? Yeah, that's that's always the secret is they want |
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