Letters of people living at the palace do not claim that there was human feces in the halls. There were people who complained about *odors* near latrines (including one which was being constantly renovated due to said odors). But that's different than the idea of people defecating in the halls.

There are a handful of anecdotes of people urinating in public at Versailles, but the full anecdotes (often excluded in secondary sources that cherry pick them) make it clear this was seen as abnormal & not a social norm. Versailles had a variety of public and private toilet facilities.

Which people, and which palaces? Not Versailles. The only primary source I've found that claims people were defecating in the halls at Versailles is a police propaganda tract that claims poor people were running wild in the palace & that's why the king needed to hire police to replace royal guards.

No, they didn't. There were public and private toilet facilities, ranging from latrines to toilet rooms. There are a handful of anecdotes of people urinating (not defecating) in public spaces at Versailles, and the anecdotes make it clear it was not a social norm nor socially accepted.

The above quote was translated by Marilyn Yalom in her work "Compelled to Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution." I highly recommend it for anyone interested in how the French Revolution was recollected by women.

Guénard (1751-1829) is one of the few contemporary well-to-do women to write sympathetically of the Women's March. Guénard was responsible for several of the apocryphal court faux "memoirs" of the 19th century, including the "memoirs" of the princesse de Lamballe.

This is a myth, not a fact. There is no evidence "a lot of courtiers" or other people at Versailles did this on a normal basis. We have a handful of anecdotes of people urinating in public & being viewed as abnormal and gross for it, or someone peeing in a corner in an exceptional circumstance.

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