Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change."
Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."
More anti-democratic thoughts from 2018 the NYT allowed this writer to exclude from his current piece. Delivered with an air of detached irony, as if he miiight be joking or exaggerating. But is he?
I had a quick search to find out what happened to Guillaume Le Juponnier books.google.co.uk/books?id=o64... and I'm getting the impression he was imprisoned and then released, but not until he'd been branded with a fleur de lis on the face. My French is rusty, so maybe someone could check that?
All the accounts I've read from historians, including ones who translated from the French chronicles, say he was released (the piece quoted above goes into it a bit) due to such anti-royalty sentiment being incredibly common. None mention that he was branded.
I would absolutely not put it past late medieval nobility, it's just the kind of thing I'd want more verification for when accounts from sources differ like that.
