E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · Jun 27

1) How can he afford it and, 2) why don't I have one? Needless to say, it didn't go well for Fouquet. It was one of the few times the king's grace was used to INCREASE a sentence (from exile to life imprisonment). Guess Sticky Fingers Nicky was lucky it wasn't Henry VIII. /3

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds · Jun 27

(Don't feel too sad, Fouquet had demolished 3 villages for the project, and spent an obscene amount of money on his ego in a time of hunger and disease and poverty, so fuck 'im.) /4