Literature
Horrible Bosses: Louis XVI of France Part VIII
April 4, 1787
Le Château de Versailles, France's Chambers
"Monsieur Bonnefoy? Sa Majesté requires your presence in his office."
As if France's arms throttling his pillow in pain didn't give away his answer. As if the butler couldn't see his set jaw, or his furrowed eyebrows, or his squinted eyes, or hear his strained vocal chords laboring to unleash the screams and moans he choked off and suppressed since the night before. As if the huge, black and blue and red and puffy and hypersensitive scratch - that didn't even break his skin but still caused this much pain - on his bare back that he tried to air out, cool off, wasn't a big eno