The thing about the shoes, okay, is that NONE of the armies around here have them. It'll come up again in very near chapters, but basically the soldiers are not super-well-equipped, even coming from Paris; and the insurrectionists against the Republican government even less so. The Marquis' men took the soldiers shoes because they can WEAR those. They didn't take the women's because they most likely can't use them.
But now I'm very upset because I have read ahead (sorry, but this isn't story spoilage, just history detail) and there's a whole thing about civilians sending the army shoes; shoes were a luxury. But the Bonnet Rouge made sure Michelle had good shoes in the little time they knew her.
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Date: 2014-05-10 08:08 pm (UTC)Oh geez.
The thing about the shoes, okay, is that NONE of the armies around here have them. It'll come up again in very near chapters, but basically the soldiers are not super-well-equipped, even coming from Paris; and the insurrectionists against the Republican government even less so. The Marquis' men took the soldiers shoes because they can WEAR those. They didn't take the women's because they most likely can't use them.
But now I'm very upset because I have read ahead (sorry, but this isn't story spoilage, just history detail) and there's a whole thing about civilians sending the army shoes; shoes were a luxury. But the Bonnet Rouge made sure Michelle had good shoes in the little time they knew her.
...THIS IS THE WORST CHAPTER.