Georgiana had once written in a medieval manuscript: If a man was unfortunate enough to possess an upright soul, a lovely daughter, and a powerful neighbor, then he might as well consider himself finished.
The right of the first night emerged in the Middle Ages, but whether it had truly existed lacked verification for a long time. The term appeared only in certain literary works of satire and social criticism.
Not until Voltaire included the term in the Philosophical Dictionary did it quickly gain widespread circulation. The French believed that one of the many immoral powers of the Ancien Régime was the right of the first night.
Germany was patriarchal. For Queen Theresa of Austria to inherit the throne, she had to go through the War of the Austrian Succession, and in the end she ruled under her husband's name.
Theresa Campini had no father, no fiancé, nor anyone else who could be called her "master." Her chastity was like a silver coin on the ground. With no one around, anyone could pick it up; whoever picked it up owned it. And in the process, they would inevitably have to fight the other discoverers.
Even if she did have a "master," her father or fiancé would still have had to face this problem. Napoleon described the French army as a flood rushing down from the Apennine Plateau, but not everyone necessarily saw that "flood" as a ferocious beast, like the rush of water from a flushing toilet that could sweep the rotten feudal system down the drain.
Frederick the Great was a representative of enlightened absolutism and was deeply influenced by Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire. Yet it was the French Revolution that truly overthrew the feudal system. People not only toppled absolute monarchy and the Church, but also brought