Painter: I'm going to need you to take your boob out for the royal portrait
Agnès Sorel: Why
Painter: You know exactly why
Agnès Sorel: 😡 Fine 🍈
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some mistresses were known to advise the King of France in state affairs if he was so infatuated
So... is this Wikipedia's official position on the only reason why a man with power would ever listen to a woman?
Until Catherine the Great, at which point the situation was reversed.