The Bourgeoisie Quotes

“He told me that in the hallways at Versailles, there hung a faint, ever-so-faint smell of human excrement, “because as the chambermaids hurried along a tiny bit
would always splash from the pots.” Many years later I realized that he was half-remembering a detail from the court of Louis XV, namely that the latrines were so few and so poorly placed at the palace, the marquesses used to steal away and relieve themselves
on stairwells and behind the beautiful furniture...”
― John Jeremiah Sullivan, Mister Lytle