Line #22 Series/LaPetiteHistoireDeFrance


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3	Everyone knows Vercingetorix, UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc, UsefulNotes/LouisXIV and UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte. Their cousins didn't make the cut of history, though.
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5	''La Petite Histoire de France'' (Eng. ''The Small History of France'') is a French {{period\|Piece}} [[SketchComedy comedic shortcom]] in the vein of ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'', created by Creator/JamelDebbouze, Laurent Tiphaine and Frank Cimière for the W9 channel in 2015 and ongoing.
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7	It focuses on four more or less distant cousins of the four famous UsefulNotes/{{Fr\|ance}}ench {{Historical Domain Character}}s named in the page's introduction, and their respective families and entourages. Initially focused on the later three, the fourth season saw the arrival of a new family with Vercingetorix's gallo-roman relatives.
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9	The series regularly jumps from era to era, respectively in 1AC, 1430, 1695 and 1810.
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11	In 1AC, years after the surrender of Vercingetorix, his cousin Yoric, his wife Maelle and their family are making a success in this newly [[AncientRome Roman Gaul]].
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13	In [[UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar 1430]], Joan of Arc has just been captured by the English, and her cousin François is trying to figure out a way to break her out. Unfortunately, he's never gone past the wacky plan-making idea, under the watchful eye of his patient wife Ysabeau.
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15	In 1695, Louis XIV has banished his cousin Philippe Honoré de Roche-Saint-Pierre from Versailles along with his wife Marie-Louise, leading the pair to try anything to return to court and escape boredom in their country estate.
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17	In 1810, Napoléon Bonaparte keeps on ignoring his cousin Rénata, much to her annoyance and that of her husband Jean Plancher, a UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}ian inkeeper.
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19	!!Tropes in this work:
20	* AbductionIsLove: Lena thinks back fondly on the time her husband slaughtered her entire family with an axe and dragged her in chains behind her horse for three days without food to bring her to his home and marry her.
21	* AbusiveParents: Downplayed, but Baptiste really is the ButtMonkey of the family.
22	-->'''Baptiste:''' Dad, can I ask you something without you getting angry?\
23	'''Jean:''' No.\
24	'''Baptiste:''' Right.
25	* ActionGirl:
26	** Catherine is a wannabe one, inspired by her neighbor Joan.
27	** Maëlle, who seems to be this by virtue of being the average Gaulish woman.
28	* AffectionateNickname: Jean calls Renata "mon petit bouchon", which can be translated by "sweet pea" and literally means "my little cork".
29	* TheAlcoholic:
30	** PlayedForLaughs with Abbot Martin, the resident priest of La Croutinière. Coupled with CantHoldHisLiquor.
31	** Little Louis, the biggest drunkard at Chez Bonaparte.
32	* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
33	** Baptiste is madly in love with Pauline, the inn's waitress. She knows it and doesn't reciprocate.
34	** Gwenola has several suitors, and shows no interest in any of them.
35	* AlternateTimeline: The off-season episodes depict events that would never happen in the canon of the series, such as Ysabeau and Fraçois having a child, or Louis XIV visiting La Croutinière.
36	* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Guillemette felt like this about Ysabeau until she realized that she was at least a little nuts like everyone else.
37	* AmbiguouslyBi: Marie-Louise wants to die the exact same way as Philippe does, which is killed in a duel by a jealous husband because they both kept his wife as a mistress.
38	* AmbiguouslyGay:
39	** Abbot Martin. His reaction to "your cassock is more or less a dress" essentially amounts to a rather unprompted denial about his alleged affair with the gamekeeper.
40	** Feuillade is quick to jump at the occasion to have sex with Frémont on a misunderstanding.
41	** Mathilde, the girl Jean and Renata want Baptiste to marry. She is not in the least interested in Baptiste or marriage in general, and dresses in [[ButchLesbian masculine clothes]].
42	--->'''Baptiste:''' I don't want this marriage, I want to live my life!\
43	'''Mathilde:''' Me too!\
44	'''Baptiste:''' And I want to be free and to marry Pauline!\
45	'''Mathilde:''' Me too!
46	* AnachronismStew:
47	** While is unlikely but not impossible that Ysabeau could read at all (Joan of Arc reportedly could not), her story predates the invention of the printing press, which means she, a peasant woman, would have a near-zero chance of getting her hands on books like those she's seen reading.
48	** Ysabeau is often seen shelling beans, 50 years before the first Europeans set foot in America; in later seasons, Maëlle and Gwenola as well.
49	** In the first season, a painting in La Croutinière represents Louis XIV in full RequisiteRoyalRegalia. This painting was painted in 1701, six years after the time period of the Roche-Saint-Pierres. It is later replaced by a painting of Louis XIII.
50	** Most of Marie-Louise's wardrobe, including wigs, as well as Frémont's and half of the furniture at La Croutinière, are about 50 years ahead of fashion. One of her gowns, in particular, is a replica of [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Madame_de_Pompadour_by_Fran%C3%A7ois_Boucher.jpg/800px-Madame_de_Pompadour_by_Fran%C3%A7ois_Boucher.jpg this gown worn by the marchioness de Pompadour in 1756]].
51	** Marie-Louise and the Abbot once sing "Il court, il court, le furet"[[note]]The ferret is running, running[[/note]], a satirical song from the Regency, some thirty years after. She also once says "The English have landed" to talk about her period, an expression born after the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
52	** Jean and Renata's inn features gas lamps, which were only invented in the 1850s.
53	** The uniforms of the inn's military clientele are... all over the place, when they're not completely invented.
54	* ArbitrarySkepticism: Invoked by Catherine when Ysabeau won't believe that [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Gaspard]] is pregnant, even though she waxes her ewes' hooves to make them slippery in case goblins try to steel them and leaves a bowl of milk on her doorstep in case a unicorn comes by.
55	* ArrangedMarriage: Jean and Renata want their son Baptiste to date and marry Mathilde, their neighbor and supplier, to eventually inherit the place through her. He does not care for the idea, and neither does she.
56	* ArtisticLicenceGeography:
57	** La Croutinière is in Burgundy, near the city of Nevers, but the cook, assumedly a local, speaks with a thick Ch'timi accent, which is from the north of France.
58	** Rıza Beğ is explicitely Persian, but the bits of culture that he shares with Philippe and Marie-Louise are much closer to Moroccan.
59	* ArtisticLicenceHistory: Napoléon I was a master of nepotism and gave all of his family and friends high ranking positions and even crowns; if Renata had really existed, it's unlikely he would have left her to be an inkeeper. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]]: Neither she nor Jean understand why Napoléon hasn't summoned them yet and are furious about it. There is also the fact that they are quite distant cousins. Jean in one episode says that Renata is related to Napoleon by her "great-grandaunt", which makes them third cousins more or less removed.
60	* AttentionWhore: Philippe would do anything to get back in his cousin's favor and for that, he needs to get his attention. In the most desperate ways he can think of.
61	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:
62	** Every once in a while between François and Ysabeau, most often in the form of thoughtful gifts and jealousy.
63	** Frequent with generally loud, angry, short-tempered Jean.
64	*** In spite of their constant mistreatments of Le Cloalec'h (see FantasticRacism below), Jean and Renata have been known to take his defense on the occasion.
65	---->'''Jean:''' He may be a Breton, but he's ''our'' Breton.
66	*** He's also shown care for his rival Jules when he was sick.
67	*** He once lets it slip before Baptiste that the reason the dairyman doesn't yell at ''his'' son is that [[ToughLove he doesn't love him]].
68	* BabyFactory: The last thing Ysabeau wants to be, especially when she's constantly around Guillemette, her ExplosiveBreeder sister-in-law. Guillemette is actually exhausted by her many pregnancies and worse, raising all the kids afterwards, but the idea of forgoing sex takes her to a HeroicBSOD.
69	* BestFriendsInLaw: Adelin, François's best mate, in married to his sister Guillemette.
70	* BigBrotherBully: Georges, Jean's brother, doesn't hesitate to demean him in public and blatantly steal from him.
71	* BigFancyHouse: La Croutinière, the [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace unfortunately named]][[note]]could be translated to Crustiner House[[/note]] country estate Philippe and Marie-Louise are exiled to. Of course, they hate it for not being Versailles, despite how clearly more comfortable it is than their cramped dirty rooms in Versailles.
72	* BlackComedy: Most often around François and Ysabeau, due to them living in TheDungAges.
73	* BloodKnight:
74	** Played for laughs with François.
75	** Maëlle and Lena aren't too far removed from this trope either.
76	* TheBore: Abbot Martin's homilies are so soporific that Philippe and Marie-Louise make a game of who can stay awake the longest. They can play several rounds in one sermon.
77	* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Marie-Thérèse, Philippe and Marie-Louise's 18 year old daughter; especially to the latter. She's a genuine DaddysGirl, but monstrously mean to her mother. That being said, she may have a bit of a FreudianExcuse (see OldManMarryingAChild below).
78	* ButtMonkey:
79	** Briac, Yoric and Maëlle's ahead-of-his-time son.
80	** Gaspard is probably the one who gets the most of it.
81	** Poor Frémont is as devoted to his lord and lady as they are zany in their demands.
82	** Le Cloalec'h as one of the few Bretons in Paris. He only stays at Chez Bonaparte because for all their abuse, Jean and Renata actually allow him to rent a room.
83	* CasualKink:
84	** Averted with Philippe, who just can't get into being insulted even though his cousin apparently is.
85	** François is very into Ysabeau brushing her hair.
86	** Adelin and Guillemette scream at each other as foreplay.
87	* CharacterCatchphrase:
88	** "We're not in Quimper!" from Jean and Renata at about anything Le Cloalec'h does.
89	** "The promise of a Roche-Saint-Pierre is a promise carved in stone!" by Philippe. [[note]]Both ''roche'' and ''pierre'' are French for ''stone''.[[/note]]
90	** "My poor friends... My poor friends!" from the marquis of La Feuillade when exposed to the deeply un-Versaillese world Philippe and Marie-Louise live in.
91	* ClingyJealousGirl:
92	** Renata interprets pretty much anything as an attempt to steal her husband from her.
93	** In a less extreme version, Ysabeau really dislikes that the barracks cook keeps hitting on François.
94	* TheCollector: Marie-Louise is very devoted to the improvement of her ''cabinet des curiosités''. Philippe also gets really interested in saints' relics during his tryst with religion.
95	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}:
96	** Renata is most often this, along with TheDitz.
97	** Gaspard will occasionally say the most insane things, much to the annoyance of Ysabeau and François.
98	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Jean, as soon as he become the head of the district traders' guild, starts embezzling from it, bribing the police to look away and hires his wife for a very lucrative position in which she does nothing.
99	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Gaspard may invent the wildest things, but he does know his ewes and what they communicate with him.
100	* DamnedByFaintPraise: Ysabeau's favorite thing about François is that he doesn't beat her, doesn't rape her, and essentially knows to leave her alone.
101	* DeathByChildbirth: What Ysabeau seeks to avoid by refusing sex and pregnancies.
102	* DeconstructedTrope: {{Bookworm}} Ysabeau and BloodKnight François often discuss the nature of chivalry.
103	-->'''Ysabeau:''' A real knight would have helped that poor widow.\
104	'''François:''' No, that's in your books. Real knights strike in the back, abuse the poor, and shit themselves before a battle.
105	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: [[DeliberateValuesDissonance/LaPetiteHistoireDeFrance Has its own page]].
106	* DentedIron: Philippe is covered in scars, half of them from the many duels he likes to fight, half from being TheKlutz.
107	* DidntThinkThisThrough:
108	** Jean once tries to attract some morbidly curious customers by faking an assault, spreading chicken blood in front of the inn, leaving handprints on the door and screaming bloody murder. The police rush in and catch him very literally red-handed.
109	** François once takes a minstrel home from the local prison as a gift for [[{{Bookworm}} Ysabeau]]. He forgot that they had ripped the man's tongue out.
110	* DoggedNiceGuy:
111	** Alan, who has a huge crush on Gwenola. She finds his shyness completely unattractive, however.
112	** Baptiste, who is handsome, clever and {{Adorkable}}, but whom Pauline only sees as a friend.
113	* DoorstepBaby: Catherine has left several babies on the steps of the church. At least once, in her defense, the priest was the father. [[ReallyGetsAround Probably.]]
114	* DreadfulMusician: Marie-Louise loves to play the harpsichord. Marie-Louise does not know how to play the harpsichord.
115	* {{Druid}}: Gwenola is studying to become one.
116	* DumbMuscle: Burghal, Maëlle's brother, who is both TheBrute and TooDumbToLive.
117	* EmbarrassingNickname: Jean's brother Georges calls him "Chouquette" (a little choux pastry with a name that's definitely cutesy and feminine).
118	* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: The Abbot.
119	* ExplosiveBreeder: Adelin and Guillemette already have ten children, and are expecting the eleventh.
120	* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire 1430's story is set between Joan of Arc's capture in May of 1430 and her execution in May of 1431, including [[spoiler:Ysabeau's entire pregnancy, the months prior and those after]].
121	* FantasticRacism: PlayedWith. While there was often a form of regional prejudice in French history, especially with particularly independentist areas like Brittany, Jean, Renata and other Parisians treat Le Cloalec'h like he's from a dangerous, uber-violent civilization on the other side of the planet.
122	* FantasyForbiddingFather: Baptiste dreams of going to America and live adventures in the New World, but Jean is insistent that he should take over the inn.
123	* FemaleMisogynist: Lena, who believes that women are "an affront to the gods", and should not talk unless being talked to. Never mind that she wasn't being talked to when she said that.
124	* FieryRedhead: Maëlle.
125	* FriendToAllLivingThings: Gwenola tries and is fairly successful in being this as part of a druidic studies. She once feeds an annoying suitor to her "friends".
126	* ForeignFanservice: In-universe.
127	** Lord Northbrock, François's English prisoner, is this to Ysabeau, mostly because he lives by the chivalric ideals she can only read about.
128	** Marie-Louise clearly has at least a bit of a crush on Rıza Beğ, their Persian guest.
129	* TheFundamentalist: At one point, Philippe tries to appeal to the over-religious zeitgeist to get his cousin's attention.
130	%%* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Ysabeau gets hot and bothered when [[ReallyGetsAround Catherine]] tells her about her sexcapades, and once needs to isolate herself while she's listening.
131	* TheGhost: In one skit, it is revealed that Philippe and Marie-Louise have a son called Louis-Etienne, two years younger than their daughter, but they don't remember it because they sent him to a wetnurse in Normandy and then military school in Gascony. The son is never mentionned again.
132	* GlobalIgnorance: Renata thinks one can hop from Paris to Louisiana in a day's trip. Jean corrects that it would take at least a couple of days.
133	* GoingNative:
134	** Subverted. Philippe once is delighted to have helped a mare birth her foal, and Marie-Louise proudly serves him a delicious pie she baked herself. They then discuss how if they were suddenly re-invited to live at court, they would drop everything and run back to Versailles.
135	** PlayedStraight with Briac, who fully adopted Roman ways to his parents' despair.
136	* GossipyHens: Philippe and Marie-Louise. Due to the local scene being a lot less of a DecadentCourt than Versailles, they're reduced to make up stories about their neighbors.
137	-->'''Marie-Louise:''' Baron Falgarone just rubbed his bollocks.\
138	'''Philippe:''' Oh. Crabs?\
139	'''Marie-Louise:''' Think bigger, Philippe. ''Syphilis''.
140	* GreatOffscreenWar:
141	** UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar in the 1430's. François often mentions battling the English and the Burgundians, but he really is more of a local guard rounding beggars and lepers.
142	** UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars in the 1810's. About half of the clientele at Jean's inn are soldiers. He and Renata also often reference "the summer of '89" to talk about the start of the French Revolution.
143	* {{Greed}}: One of Jean's main characteristics, which Renata happily follows along to.
144	* HappilyMarried: All main couples at the end of the day.
145	** Philippe and Marie-Louise adore each other through and for their mutual ditziness, and are often noted to have a ''very'' healthy sex life.
146	** Renata all but worships the ground Jean walks on and he cherishes her back just (well, almost) as much.
147	** François is fully aware that he hit the jackpot with Ysabeau and often tries to go out of his way to make her happy; while she patiently guides him through his stupidity and brutishness.
148	* HiddenDepths:
149	** François genuinely loves kids and would love to pamper a "little one", boy or girl. His nieces and nephews adore him. He is also a really good ballroom dancer.
150	** Renata is surprisingly good at dealing with [[ShellShockedVeteran Shell-Shocked Veterans]], like when she uses a trick straight out of ''Film/TheKingsSpeech'' to get an order out of a stammering patron.
151	--->'''Renata:''' You ain't the first soldier who came back kooky from the battlefield.
152	** She also has a lot of insight about the political situation, but [[ObfuscatingStupidity plays stupid to lighten the mood]].
153	* HistoricalCharactersFictionalRelative: The premise of the series. Jean has been known to monetize it (his inn is called "Chez Bonaparte" (Eng. "''Bonaparte's''"), as well as Ysabeau, who makes and sells "the Maid's Cheese".
154	* HistoricalInJoke: Plethora. The series is filled to the brim with bites of events and culture of each time period to delight those who know their history.
155	* HumanSacrifice: Yoric is against, but as a druid apprentice, Gwenola is very insistent that she needs [[DeliberateValuesDissonance some out-of-use slaves to practice on]].
156	* {{Hypocrite}}:
157	** Ysabeau scolds Gaspard for doing special sales, saying that her cheeses are good enough that they don't need to demean themselves to sell them. She lowers her neckline as soon as he's out of sight. She also despises violence... except when it's useful to her business.
158	** Jean and Renata, always and at all times when Le Cloalec'h is concerned. Most importantly, they constantly dunk on him for being from Brittany (a separatist region with a unique culture and language), while Renata herself is from Corsica (a separatist region with a unique culture and language).
159	* IAmAHumanitarian: Lena's last memory of her mother was that she was "overcooked" [[FridgeHorror during the siege of Alesia]].
160	* IAmOneOfThoseToo: Feuillade is happy to brag about the years he spent as Louis XIV's ambassador in China... until he meets Rıza Beğ, who actually was the Shah's ambassador in Beijing and speaks fluent Mandarin.
161	* ICallItVera: François calls his sword "The Magnificent", "The Englishman's Bane", "Believer's Light" and "Burgundian Calamity". Ysabeau calls it "Rabbit Butcher", "The Scourge of Dirty Nails" and "Drunkard's Staff".
162	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Baptiste, who complains about his life and calls himself his parents' slave... in front of Mondésir, a black man from the West Indies.
163	* InUniverseNickname: Gwenola's family sometimes calls her Gwen.
164	* ItWillNeverCatchOn:
165	** Philippe thinks that [[Creator/JeanDeLaFontaine La Fontaine]]'s Fables are far too childish and [[ArtisticLicenseBiology unrealistic]] to actually be meaningful.
166	** Renata invents Parisian outside dining. Jean actually likes the idea, but changes his mind when the clients run off without paying.
167	** At one point, Baptiste and Pauline learn this new dance called the waltz. His parents think they look ridiculous.
168	* IWantGrandkids: Philippe and Marie-Louise. No, not from their daughter. From their butler.
169	* KnightInShiningArmor: Discussed and subverted. When Ysabeau cleans and polishes François's armor until it shines, he tells her about a fellow knight whose armor was so shiny that they nicknamed him "the Hedgehog", after all the arrows he was the target of.
170	* LanguageBarrier: Despite being Corsican, Renata does not speak the language. That's why she doesn't realize that a Corsican client she's excitedly listening to is actually Italian.
171	* LargeHam: François and his friends, Renata and Maëlle are rather loud.
172	* LastNameBasis: Between the Planchers and Le Cloalec'h. Only Baptiste calls him Loïc in private.
173	* LousyLoversAreLosers: François and Ysabeau only had sex once (on their wedding night) and Ysabeau describes it as similar to "getting trampled by a herd of boars".
174	* {{Malaproper}}: Jean and Renata often call Le Cloalec'h "Le Cloaca". There's a chance Renata isn't doing it on purpose.
175	* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Ysabeau forbids anyone from getting close to her son, ''especially'' [[BloodKnight François]], and gets upset at everything in the house from candles to spoons. [[JustifiedTrope To be fair]], considering the infant mortality rate...]]
176	* {{Manchild}}:
177	** Gaspard, the wannabe knight who works as a shepherd for Ysabeau. She and François rescued him from life as a beggar and he often acts around them like an 8-year-old with his parents.
178	** François himself often gives things about as much reflection as a toddler would.
179	* MandatoryMotherhood: Ysabeau doesn't want to have children. François is disappointed but hoping to change her mind; as is the entirety of the village.
180	* MeanBoss: Renata to Pauline. She is often either jealous of how well she does her job (mostly, of Jean [[ClingyJealousGirl acknowledging]] that she does her job well), or telling her that getting harrassed and fondled by customers is good for business.
181	* MeaningfulName: Averted. After three months of not knowing how to call Baptiste, it was the priest who christened him who gave him the name of his church (St Jean le Baptiste).
182	* NiceGirl: Ysabeau and Gwenola. Neither of them are above snapping every once in a while, though.
183	* NoIndoorVoice: It's easier to count the instances when François is ''not'' shouting.
184	* NoodleIncident: Feuillade is hiding at La Croutinière because he got in trouble with Venetians and lives in terror of being found by them. At least Frémont and the Abbot are having a blast terrifying him with Italian accents.
185	* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted by Marie-Louise, who once tells her husband he can't come to her bedchamber because "[[UnusualEuphemism the Cardinal is visiting]]". PlayedStraight for Philippe, who thinks that she writes letters monthly, as did his lady mother. Even when she explicitely states that she's on her period, he thinks she's talking about calligraphy.[[note]]The French word for ''period'' is ''règles'', which is also the word for ''rulers'', which he thinks she's using to draw her margins.[[/note]]
186	* OddFriendship: One quickly forms between [[LaResistance Maëlle]] and Flavia, whom she quickly realizes is less a diabolical colonizer and more a very naive, very easily manipulated yet friendly woman.
187	* OhCrap: When Ysabeau lets it pass that she just wants to avoid DeathByChildbirth and wouldn't have sex with François "even if he was handsome". Lucky for her, he doesn't even notice the insult.
188	* OldManMarryingAChild: Marie-Thérèse, at 18, has been married for a few years to the 86-year-old duke of Vinteuil. She enjoys his money and title, and is actively trying to make his "death of old age" kick in, for example by making him run after her in the entire castle.
189	* OneSteveLimit:
190	** Guillemette means to call her eleventh Benoit, which according to Ysabeau is also the name of her fifth (or eighth, maybe). To be fair she makes sure never to call them.
191	** François is delighted to learn that Big François is dead, as he becomes the new Big François. Ysabeau counters that he might become Old François instead, as one of their neighbors has a young son named François.
192	--->'''François:''' Too many François in this town.
193	* OnlySaneMan:
194	** Ysabeau, patience made woman, successfully juggles between BloodKnight François and {{Manchild}} Gaspard to keep all of them alive.
195	** Baptiste, the long-suffering son of Jean and Renata, a young man full of ideals and rather far from his parents wacky money-grabbing schemes.
196	* OutGivingBirthBackInTwoMinutes: Ysabeau always heats up water when Guillemette visit, because she gave birth to her sixth child after laughing at a joke, and pretty much sneezed out the ninth.
197	* OverlyLongGag: The secret code Napoleon allegedly knocks on the door when he visits the inn.
198	* ParentalSexualitySquick: Jean and Renata have a very healthy sex life. Poor Baptiste's door isn't thick enough.
199	* ThePigPen:
200	** Hygiene isn't Gaspard's strong suit. That being said, Ysabeau doesn't seem to mind him eating with hands literally covered in shit as long as he says grace first.
201	** Philippe and Marie-Louise... follow the times. A clean-up only involves a drop of perfume, and they fondly remember relieving themselves in the hallways of Versailles due to the few latrines.
202	* PrecisionFStrike: Philippe occasionally drops a far too modern swear word in his fancy 18th century French.
203	* PrecociousCrush: To the extent that Gaspard has the mentality of an eight-years-old, on Ysabeau.
204	* RacialFaceBlindness: Renata, who mistakes a black, Maghrebine, Arabic-speaking customer for another Breton.
205	* ReallyGetsAround: Catherine, who proudly deflowered half the county.
206	* LaResistance: Maëlle is (trying to be) at the heart of one against the Romans. Doesn't help that most of Yoric's clients are Romans themselves.
207	* {{Retcon}}:
208	** In an early episode, Marie-Louise says she and Philippe have been married ten years. In later seasons, they have an 18-year-old daughter.
209	** In an early episode, Adelin brags that his wife never talks back to him, but that's because he cut out her tongue. Soon later the series introduces his wife Guillemette, François's sister, who very much has a tongue, and she and Adelin have a LikeAnOldMarriedCouple / SlapSlapKiss dynamic.
210	** Le Cloalec'h's first name often changes (Wiomarc'h or Loïc depending on the season).
211	* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Northbrock is the sensitive guy to François's manly man.
212	* ServileSnarker: Frémont is the most professional and devoted butler, but he's not above frequent quips, mostly towards the abbot, occasionally towards his lord and lady.
213	* ShoutOut: Alan wants to call his dream daughter with Gwenola "Boudica".
214	* SiblingRivalry: Between Philippe and his brother Henri.
215	* SignificantNameOverlap: [[spoiler:François and Ysabeau's baby is accidentally christened François because Ysabeau was scolding her husband during the baptism. She initially wanted to call him Charles, but the priest was having a bad day because François and Adelin accidentally set his church on fire and refused to change it.]]
216	* SirSwearsALot: François -- his favorite word is "''foutredieu''", or meaning "God's cum".
217	* SitcomArchnemesis:
218	** Frémont and Abbot Martin.
219	** Jean and Jules, his rival inkeeper from down the street. This is highlighted by the fact that they are dressed and groomed exactly the same.
220	* SlutShaming: PlayedWith due to DeliberateValuesDissonance.
221	** Ysabeau is shamed for going out with a bare head, but no one minds that her cleavage shows off three quarters of her boobs.
222	** Gwenola, when she goes out fully clothed. Her mother thinks she will get assaulted by boys who will be wondering what she's hiding.[[note]]Granted, that part is unfortunately TruthInTelevision.[[/note]]
223	* SuicideAsComedy: When Yorick and Burghal find Lena frozen in the snow.
224	-->'''Yorick:''' She must have tried to get eaten by wolves again.
225	* TheTalk: Philippe and Marie-Louise attempt to tell their middle-aged butler about bees and flowers to get some "little Frémonts" running around. Then they take him to the kennel just to be sure.
226	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Childhood friends Catherine and Ysabeau.
227	* UglyGuyHotWife: Ysabeau is described in-universe as uniquely pretty and elegant for a peasant woman, while François clearly doesn't put the same care in his appearance and hygiene.
228	* TheUnfavorite: Briac against his sister Gwenola. He means well, but his parents have found him insufferable since he returned from business school -- from studying in Rome.
229	* UnintelligibleAccent: The cook at La Croutinière speaks in a Ch'timi accent so thick even most Ch'tis in the audience are stumped.
230	* UnusualEuphemism: Jean and Renata call their son's penis his "Jesus".
231	* UpperClassTwit: Philippe and Marie-Louise are this and get away with it by virtue of being BlueBlood in an era of absolutism.
232	* WithFriendsLikeThese: The marquess of La Feuillade, a friend of Philippe's who is still at court, is always claiming to do everything in his power to restore him to favor, but is better at getting favor for himself.
233	* YouCanKeepHer: Inverted. When Northbrock's family agrees to pay François his ransom, Northbrock claims that he's worth ten times that and demands the ransom be matched. Of course his family wouldn't pay it now, but that's not the point.

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