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Recap / Confessions d'Histoire - The Beauty Tutorial of Agnès Sorel

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Beauty and skin care tips by Agnès Sorel, the paramour of King Charles VII of France from 1442 to 1450.


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  • Bottle Episode: The episode is made of only two characters, two costumes, a simple table and a painted stained glass background.
  • Catchphrase: Agnès says "And then, show your boobs!" three times (she doesn't do it of course, but the real one did). Then Antoinette de Maignelais reprises it.
  • Chromosome Casting: Only two characters are featured in this episode, and both are women.
  • Comically Inept Healing: Agnès' cousin Antoinette de Maignelais gives bread with mercury to her for her digestive problems... then Agnès dies. Agnès Sorel indeed died of mercury poisoning she took as medicine.
  • Cosmetic Horror: The ingredients of Agnès Sorel's skin care lotions become increasingly improbable, disgusting and dangerous as the video progresses. The ingredients of one of them include snail slime, boar brain, goat dung, earthworms, bat blood and hemlock juice.
  • Filler: That five minute episode is much shorter than the others and features only two characters and one historical event (the death of Agnès). It was made because the Alexander the Great videos took a long time to put together (which was aggravated by invokedwriting delays and the COVID-19 Pandemic later on).
  • Later-Installment Weirdness: The episode doesn't have the webseries' opening Theme Tune, and parodies beauty tutorial videos instead of Confession Cams. It also has no Creative Closing Credits.
  • Parody: Of beauty/makeup video tutorials.

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