I join Benjamin Jacobs from the Wittenberg to
Westphalia podcast for a deeper dive into "scrofula," the skin
condition whose sufferers Charles X touched at his coronation in a
medieval ritual believed to hold the power of healing.
The Siècle is a history podcast covering France's overlooked century between Napoleon and World War I. Visit thesiecle.com for annotated scripts, pictures, maps, sources and more.