King Henry IV was a wonderful guy. He was friendly, his subjects loved him, he was also an alcoholic, a gambler, and a womanizer way before Britney Spears sang about it. Everyone loved him.
One night, King Henry IV holds a party with his noble friends. Things start with champagne, but there wasn't enough champagne, so they called in for red wine when that was out. We all know you don't really mix champagne with anything other than champagne, right? So you can guess that things got a bit crazy.
Eventually, Henry has his servants retrieve several sketch artists from across the river. The artists come and they were to sketch pictures of King Henry and all his drunk and crazy friends. You've seen pictures of drunk people at parties, right? Some people make different faces for every pictures, more often than not, someone makes the same face over and over again. But everything is really funny. It was a grand night and I'm sure no one can rightfully remember what really happened that night.
The next morning, King Henry IV wakes up, probably draped in women, probably with the grandest, most royal hangover a king could ask for. He sees these sketches and takes a look at them. As he flips through them, he chuckles to himself and thinks that this is great. Pictures of the night before, and all these funny faces.
There is a bridge in Paris called the Pont Neuf. No, it does not translate to "Bridge Nine", it translates to "New Bridge", which is ironic because it's the oldest bridge in Paris. It's so old, "neuf" used as "new" is long out of style, by about a few hundred years. An even more eccentric fact about this bridge is the fact that it is decorated with faces along its sides. Ladies and gentlemen, these are the faces taken from those sketches that wild and crazy night hosted by King Henry IV. After looking at those pictures, he ordered their faces upon that bridge which was being constructed during his time.
In a manner of speaking, this is the world's first version of Facebook.
