So droit du seigneur was pretty much a made-up thing to be angry at the nobility for, cause I guess people like to make up an elite to get mad at, but one thing that really strikes you reading from Europe’s feudal period – which lasts up to World War I – was the frequency with which noblemen’s – and even non-noble merchants and gentry – travel diaries are like “Saw a pretty peasant girl by the side of the road. Stopped to rape her.”