Battle Royale: French Monarchs
Ben Clarke and Eliza Sommers
4.6from 195 ratings
- 137
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 195
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
- 126
- YouTube views
About Battle Royale: French Monarchs
Passing judgement on all the Kings and Emperors of France from Clovis to Napoleon III. Each episode, Ben recounts the story of a monarch to Eliza, then together they decide on how to score them in 5 categories. But who will they select as the crème de la crème, and who will they send to the Guillotine? Proudly inspired by the Rex Factor podcast.
- Publisher
- Ben Clarke and Eliza Sommers
- Category
- comedy · education · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Jun 2021
- Latest episode
- 2 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 137 episodes have a transcript.
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
70 - Henry V (Henri, comte de Chambord)
25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
69 - Louis Philippe I
4 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
68.5 - Adélaïde d'Orléans, Part 2
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70 - Henry V (Henri, comte de Chambord)
Published 2 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] In July 1871, he visits Paris. Oh. And he expected some kind of fanfare when he arrived. But nothing. But he stepped off the train and nobody recognized him. Poor guy. All day. and there was no private carriage waiting for him as he'd expected so he had to get a cab around Paris and he toured the city and reportedly he wept when he entered the Pavillon de Marcon which is the wing of the Tuileries where he'd grown up and he saw the windowsill where he'd spent a lot of time looking out as a boy over the Seine yeah he cried because remember like everyone's dead now like Yeah, he's like the last one. […]
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- YouTube views
- 126
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 69 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 126 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 90
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 66
- Engagement
- 93
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