A Noblewoman Fed a Starving Stranger in 1788
18th Century

A Noblewoman Fed a Starving Stranger in 1788

Three days without food, a landless laborer knocked on the wrong farmhouse door in 1788 and set off a chain of events that would topple the monarchy.

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