The Despotic Origins of the World’s First Men’s Style Magazine

Your eyes un-gum at cock’s crow, and there’s a bleary view of dawn through the dormer window: you may be a knight of the realm, but you’re a pretty damn lowly one, so your room is in the attic of the Le Grand Commun, the building the King has allocated to those nobility who, at his command — and dependent upon his sinecure — are permanently resident at court. Read more at Esquire.