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Yes! this was an interesting one 👍 I'm letting all the commercials play through - I'm not sure how it all works, but hopefully you'll at least get paid for the views this video receives before they demonetize it 🤞 It's one thing if they need to age-restrict a video, but to also prevent the creator from earning any revenue is beyond ridiculous 🙄
@a2shake That’s so kind of you Amy, thank you so much my friend. And it is appreciated, because I know how torturous the ads are. If they demonetise or age restrict, the video is killed dead in the water. Will hardly get any views.
@@ObsoleteOddity Totally crazy! Do they deny revenue to TikToker's who produce child-inappropriate content? Maybe they do, I don't know, but still dumb as hell. These people ever hear of parental controls? I noticed that your videos are usually monetized for maybe a day after you upload them. That being said, I'm curious to know if you at least receive any payment for the views they receive in that short time?
I dont post very often, but I just want you to know how much I appreciate your unique creative artistry, always resulting in a quality artistic story. Thank you!
OH Oddie I needed a new video from you this morning after a 16 hour shift in the ER. I love your content and your voice. Have a safe and wonderful day ❤❤ your friend from Arkansas
Wow, 16 hours is indeed a long shift Alisa, I do hope you can relax and enjoy this narration with your favourite tipple. Thank you so much for your lovely feedback 😄
Enjoyed it? I adored it! Another great story and your hard work, research and dedication shine through. I thought you narrated this story with particular affection and vigor. I love how you peppered the story with the likes of Mick Jagger to emphasize the popularity of the mentioned person. You also gave support to women and their life issues. Thanks for your always great stories.
Dearest Oddie, a magnificent story of rags to riches and doing what one must do to get where and what she wants! While not a respectful and desirable job, it was indeed lucrative for her! The abused lady is one I can relate to, to an extent. I, too, had been abused by my ex-husband. Thankfully, my children and I made it out alive! I believe Miss Natalie's portrait is quite similar to the lovely Elizabeth Taylor! I hope you recover quickly! I feel your pain with all the respiratory issues! May better health befall you soon! Thank you for your amazing work!!!
Thank you so much for your very kind feedback, my friend, so glad you enjoyed the presentation. Indeed, she was headstrong and determined, and it certainly paid off - she established herself in society, and was very wealthy, something that other women of her birth status could never have imagined. I’m so sorry to hear about the abuse she suffered, I’m happy that you managed to get out of there alive, so many women don’t. I was wondering why that portrait seemed so familiar, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it and yes, you are absolutely correct, it resembles Elizabeth Taylor so much. Thank you for your very kind wishes, I am fine now - this video is over two years old.
What an interesting story, but then I always enjoy your videos. She didn’t just dip her toe in the water, she jumped in and wrote her own life story. Clearly a very headstrong determined woman. While the French words were as you said are “killing me” I thought you nailed it. To those who has not yet subscribed to your RU-vid channel, they are missing out on some great stories. Keep them coming! 🦋
Thank you so much for your very kind feedback, my friend, so glad you enjoyed the presentation. Indeed, she was headstrong and determined, and it certainly paid off - she established herself in society, and was very wealthy, something that other women of her birth status could never have imagined. Thank you so much also for the very kind compliment regarding my French, that’s very sweet of you 😊
Oh how I enjoy your story each one each week is better than the last one. I look forward to getting the stories on Sunday. It’s the one day at relax listen to the stories and enjoy your voice. I do enjoy all your stories. Keep being you and look forward to the next.
What a pleasure Oddie ! Fascinating snd intimate story telling ! I love the relaxed and personal reactions , it seems you are learning as we are at the same time ! Thank you !
I’m so happy you enjoyed the presentation Julie, thank you so much for your kind feedback. Absolutely, I am also learning as I discover all our wonderful history!
Oh Oddie! You are fantastic! I loved this story and I loved your pronunciations! Well done! Yes absolutely keep these stories coming! To be honest, I could sit and listen to you read the phone book bc I adore your accent! Thank you so much for sharing! Blessings always! ❤️😊🙏
Oddie, I think you did a marvelous job with pronunciation. It's always harder to read words in a foreign language. You are such a good storyteller, I'm just fascinated by your vlogs. Love you and your content. Thank you Oddie, stay safe, and hello to Mrs. Oddie.
So glad you enjoyed it my friend, and thank you so much for your kind words, I shall keep persevering with the French, and one day I may have enough time to take some lessons. Thank you also for your kind wishes, hope you’re also keeping safe. ☺️🙏
Many seem to want to know more about her children in this one, Oddie. A very good question, too. Such a fascinating character, people haven't changed that much in all these years. Yes, she made herself into one of the most desirable women of her day. That takes both intelligence and calculation.
It just goes to show that anyone can change their stars, and a woman to boot, it gives me inspiration to move forward and change my path, be independent and not rely on anyone, I don’t think I could be as ruthless, but I can still reach the stars if I really try, feel better Oddie, cheers to another great narrative, keep them coming ❤
Whether you agree with her lifestyle or not, you have to admire the drive and ambition and intelligence of women who use their wits to escape bad circumstances and break free to get the life they want. I've read a lot of stories about women in the Klondike gold rush days who've done similar things, doing the only thing they could at first to get out of poverty and gain riches. That's quite the bed!! "A virtual ship of carnal pleasure." I do love her style. I haven't seen many of your videos lately, but they're truly some of my favourites. Always so fascinating. I was once a sponsor on Patreon and I'd love to be again, but my finances just don't allow it at this time. Still, your content is well worth the sponsoring. Keep up the great work!!
Appreciate Oddie Beau's attempts at French pronunciation. I can still remember early French lessons, starting at age 8, with Madame Florescu, a native Parisian who had married a Romanian-American college professor ( Radu Florescu, author of "Vlad the Impaler" ) Madame would make funny faces emphasizing the "eh" sound in words like peu. The way she contorted her lips was really something. The gargled "r" sounds were extremely important to her, as well. We growled out words like "garcon". I can read and comprehend written French fairly well, still, but don't get me started on pronunciations in conversation! Sounds like I'm lampooning the language with over-exaggerations of its unique peculiarities. Thanks to Madame Florescu. Valiant work here, Oddie. Merci.
Thank you for your kind appreciation, my friend, but thank you more for sharing your wonderfully entertaining memory with us! Madame Florescu sounded absolutely wonderfully eccentric !
Good morning oddie i enjoyed your presentation and your french prenounsiation's are fine I remember a film in the early 1970s a woman think called Nana she was married to a french soldier in the Franco prussan war 1870/1 who mixed in high society while he was away at war sounds similar Bit cloudy here today seeing my boys in the redwell pub two thirty for a pint have a good day yourself oddie
Morning Vic, I’m glad you enjoyed the presentation and don’t forget tomorrow is the second part of this series. We’ve had cloudy all week, but today and tomorrow is going to be beautiful sunshine! Enjoy your pint in Redwell!
❤that was so entertaining and very informative and really so well done I think that these woman had a desire to be in a place,where everything was solely up to themselves, and they did well to be admitted and respected for the clever women they were🌹👍
Thanks Oddie. Hope you feel better. Everyones got the sneezies and sore throats etc here too. Its been really wet. Bea5today tho. Doggo and I took a walk and then just stood in the sun for a bit. Been very cold for us this year.🙏🏼🥰
Hi Oddie, Love you. Odette and your channel. Thanks for talking about many people I have never heard about before like Louise Delabigne. Louise Delabigne was a prostitute then rose to the top. Reminds me of Chinese Empress Dowager Cixi . Who was a Chinese concubine in her youth, then turned into Empress of China later. Cixi story is fascinating too. She ruled at same time as Queen Victoria. Louise Delabigne also reminds me of Marguerite Alibert who was plain looking and rose to the top too-she was the one who killed her Prince husband.-Oddie has talked about Marguerite Alibert also. louise Delabigne was a smart lady she knew who to talk to to rise to the top. Louise Delabigne was a fascinating lady, thanks for talking about her. One final note was that Louise Delabigne at 0:01 or some other lady? Thanks. 🧡🧡
Very glad you enjoyed it Chrissy, thanks for your insight. Yes, I covered the Margaret Alibert case many years ago, and others followed suit. No, the video clip at the start is not her.
Oddie, Your french sounds beautiful especially compared to mine, I am from tennessee😅 It's really hard to get that hillbilly draw out😂😂😂 You should hear my spanish.😢😂 But seriously great job😉🥰
That was a great story. The lives people lived in Paris at the time... always amazes me. Thank-you for your story and your French pronunciation will get better with time 🙂 PS The 's' is usually silent at the end of words. And yes, there were weird last names in that story... lol.
Thank you so much for your kind feedback, Louise, yes, after I retire, I would like to take some French lessons, I learned it at school, but that was a long time ago, and really it is better to live in the country where it is broken, it’s easier to pick up then. I just hope my old brain will be able to take it in by that stage 😄
I have nothing but respect for these strong willed women, who carved out a life more free than those of “proper” Ladies in their time. They lifted themselves up from poverty to enjoy places in the most prominent society. They wore fine garments and jewels, gifts from their admiring court of men of high station. They retained their freedom, to choose who she would favour, and when. They acted, sang, and danced in the finest theatres (which no woman of quality could), building a mystique about themselves, becoming the fantasy creature desired by many. They knew that if they did not shape their own lives, others would, and they would be trapped in the class structure that denied the finer things to women of low birth. They educated themselves in many subjects, so they would be stimulating company, and were pursues as much for their sophisticated and witty company, as for their sexuality. Unlike the straightlaced Wives of their benefactors, they enjoyed their sensual pleasures, and were active participants in their encounters. They lived life to the fullest, with a joi de vie that was itself magnetic. These women, also remembered where they came from, and they had hearts large enough to help other, younger girls learn the arts and skills required to lift themselves into finer lives as well. They didn’t create competitors for themselves, but as they aged, they took protégés who would inherit the positions held in their own youths. They kept enough wealth to retire in comfort as their prime of beauty faded, leaving a legend behind them untainted by age. There is a power in knowing who you truly are, and becoming that person by one’s own intelligence and will. Thank you Oddie, for a peek into the lives of these grand Courtesans, who lived on their own terms with no regrets. Much love to you and Odette, as always dear friends.💖🖤🇨🇦
Thank you for your most excellent summary Tamarra, there’s not really much I can add, you have given the most wonderful insight into her life, and the lives of other courtesans of the time. What you said is so true, that if a woman was born impoverished, and wasn’t able to pull themselves out of it by any means possible, it would mean a drab life of slavery for very little money. The young people today think they are hard done by, but they have no idea what it was like back then. There were women and men back, then, who looked down upon these women, just as there are today - but these women were not bothered by such scorn, they lived lives of elegance and adventure, of course, this really only applies to be successful courtesans, and not the street girls who couldn’t rise above that level. So glad you enjoyed the presentation, my dear friend, hope spring has finally made an appearance your end of the pond, here it is raining - we have not given up hope! Much love to you ❤️🇨🇭☀️⭐️
@@ObsoleteOddity I’m glad you enjoyed my thoughts on these women, rare and exotic as they were…they strike me as kindred spirits in a way. Spring has arrived, we have had some rains, but the days are warm, flowers blooming, trees putting out green leaves, nights are mild, and today the Sun is shining in a clear sky. Don’t lose hope my dears…Spring will find you. Much love to you…as always. 💖🖤🇨🇦
@tamarrajames3590 Although it is still raining here and has been raining all day, the weather is definitely warming up and I’ve just had a look at the forecast for next week, and it looks like the Sun will be making an appearance from more than one day! I am looking forward to it! Odette has just planted some cucumbers and tomatoes; and the birds that we feed all year have had their young and are teaching them to fly. I’m so happy to hear that the Sun is shining for you in Canada. 🇨🇦☀️
@@ObsoleteOddity Spring is such a beautiful season, I love to see the young being taught by their Mums, and Dads with the birds. My eyes get so hungry for green all winter, and it is bursting out everywhere in glorious shades and tones. The rabbit has been eating the flower buds off Richard’s clematis, and got 5 out of 7, but one bloomed the day before yesterday, when I brought his ashes home, I’ll take that for now.☀️🌈🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 I totally agree, it is such a lovely time of the year, when everything is blooming afresh, and animal life is making lots of glorious noise. I remember working in a hotel in my 20s, and I was complaining loudly about the ibises, ripping the bin bags out of the containers and spreading the rubbish around. An old Portier gently reminded me that they too must eat. That changed my perspective immediately, all the beings upon the Earth are just trying to survive. Now I can even look kindly at the snails that devour Odette’s lettuce (she hasn’t quite managed it 😄)
Such an intelligent business woman, and so resilient to use the tragic theft of her virginity as a launching pad to her success. Thats making lemon champagne from lemons. She has this distinct look that all the relatives to a certain family tree with its roots in rural northwest Wisconsin. I wont mention the name, but I believe she could be one of them.
That’s because this wasn’t one of my own stories with my own text, I was reading it directly off the website. I sounded different because at the time I was suffering from Covid.
@ObsoleteOddity OH, okay. I figured it was a "fake Oddie." I couldn't even watch all of it because it really bothered me! I hope you are feeling much better!
@@ObsoleteOddity Clearly, she had to know at some stage of her "professional " life as she strived to become a top courtesan that she was committing adultery with married Men? Not saying she wasn't saved because Our Lord saved Mary Magdalene too. But clearly the love of $ cashola is the root of all evil. Even the brilliant mind of Emanuel Swedenborg figured out that most marriages among the wealthy were a sham. The marriages themselves were based upon money, social status, political gain and arm decorations. On the Catholic perspective, the Apparition of Our Lady of Fatima warned those 3 Shepherd children in Portugal that "not all marriages are pleasing to God or of Heaven" *The love of money is the root of all evil.*
@ghosty426 No examples needed, this woman lived her life and harmed no one, and yet she was harmed. Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you.
@@ObsoleteOddity I understand that position because my Immortal Beloved married a man 20 years her Senior and she suffered much from her choice. If you don't get to marry your Soulmate on Earth, your "marriage " will definitely polish you like a diamond.
