Accuracy?
Aside from the French Revolution, I haven't read much of France's history. Anyone know how accurate this is, historically?
shareIt;s dramatized a lot, like most history shows.
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. ~T.S. Eliot
Apparently the kings brother in the series is played like a homosexual. Dunno whether thats true in real life cause he was a married man. But its considered cool and trendy now by the liberal media to put gays in everything.
share"Unabashedly effeminate and preferentially homosexual, he nonetheless fulfilled his dynastic duty by marrying twice and begetting several children" Admittedly, wiki's not always the most reliable but this same conclusion seems to be in most texts of Phillippe.
shareE was definitely gay in real life
sharehe's more like bisexual in the show, since he willingly sleeps with women, too.
shareBeing forced to marry for dynastic procreation and to keep rumors that would have one killed/imprisoned for sodomy hardly counts as being bisexual. Bisexuality is being attracted to both genders, not simply being capable of performing sexually with both or marrying in an opposite gender relationship because it was required/expected.
Please stop inflicting bisexual interpretations on historic men who show every evidence of being homosexual/gay. Compulsory heterosexuality isn't bisexuality. And simply being able to 'get it up' enough to sire children isn't evidence either. Most gay men, even today, are not 'gold star' gay and have histories of sleeping with or attempting relationships with women.
i know what bisexuality is, since i'm bisexual.
in the show he chooses to sleep with women, both henriette and the maid. in real life we would never know whether he was bisexual or gay.
Please stop inflicting bisexual interpretations on historic men who show every evidence of being homosexual/gay.
please stop the bisexual erasure. share
You can take your liberal-bashing somewhere else: "Monsieur" as we called at the court, was indeed homosexual. I guess even you can understand that in 17th century France, all aristocrats had to marry a decent lady just for the sake of image and reproduction. Him being homosexual (or bisexual) was "tolerated" because he was the King's brother.
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