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Cautionary Tales · October 3, 2025 · 43m

Missing Fish and Fatal Feasts: Ritual and Ruin at the Sun King’s Table

Tim Harford (solo)

In the gilded court of Louis XIV, 17th Century France, manners are everything. Where to sit, how to eat, what to wear - any misstep is costly. No one knows this better than François Vatel, the greatest party planner in all of France.

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