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“At a ball on the 12th, the Prince summoned his courage in the middle of a mazurka to express his feelings to the young Grand Duchess. She spoke to her mother who undertook to consult the Tsar.  He took the young Prince out on the balcony and said: "We have a secret for you!"  Whereupon he kissed him and received him into the bosom of the family.  On the 13th the Tsar conferred on him the Order of St. Andrew, saying ‘I have also appointed him a Major-General: I can't after all give my daughter to a mere Captain!’”

- King Christian VIII of Denmark on the engagement of his nephew, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Hesse-Kassel, and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia

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A statue of the Greek muse Thalia. She is seated and is holding a round object, possibly a drum, with one hand. Probably by James Anderson (British, 1813-1877) 

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Marilyn Monroe photographed by Sam Shaw in Amagansett, New York, 1957.

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Do you know any books that talk about Louis XVI?

Sadly I don’t read much books about him 🥲 there’s Marie-Therese, Child of Terror: The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter by Susan Nagel that mentions Louis XVI and things he did as a king and etc. Although it’s not completely reliable because the same biography mentions Louis having an affair with Duchess of Polignac and Antoinette having an affair with Count Fersen.

There’s also Louis & Antoinette by Vincent Cronin which goes more in insight about Louis XVI’s childhood, relationships with others and etc… I feel like it’s really difficult to find a decent biography about Antoinette and Louis 😭

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I found your tiktok account. People in your comments are crazy for thinking that Marie and Fersen had an affair, like she was already getting laid by her husband. There's like no point in going for fersen.

Yeah! 😕 Antoinette is sadly always accused of having extramarital affairs with her friends. Louis XVI in some biographies is also accused of sleeping with Antoinette’s friend Polignac. People will make any rumor possible instead of accepting the fact that they loved each other & were devoted to each other

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Doodles drawn by a 14 Year old Philip ii on one of his books

Source: Impudent King: A New Life of Philip ii

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Personally I don’t believe that Madame Tussaud made a death mask of Marie Antoinette & Louis XVI. One thing that makes me immediately doubt it is that the wax head looks nothing like Marie Antoinette from her most accurate portrait done by Duplessis.. she disliked that portrait because it got her features right so I always use it when comparing it to wax figures of Antoinette. Plus there’s no official record saying that Madame Tussaud claimed she in fact made wax figures of Antoinette & Louis XVI… it isn’t the first time the Tussauds museum would be lying because they also claim to have the wax figure of Madame du Barry but it was never based off of her 😭!

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Day & Evening Bodices owned by Empress Eugenie of France

1850s-1870s

The Bowes Museum via Facebook

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Marie Antoinette as Greco-Roman Goddesses Analysis

I’ve stumbled upon some paintings of Antoinette depicted as either Vesta or Hebe. Two goddesses vastly different from each other but still similar to Antoinette. I have some knowledge about the myths so here is my theory:

Hebe

-For Hebe it took me some time to think about it but I think it makes sense! Hebe was a goddess and personification of eternal youth. She was also the daughter of Zeus & Hera, King & Queen of all Gods. At the time Antoinette had her portrait done of herself as Hebe, she was a dauphine (1773) I think the fact that both Hebe & Antoinette were young then, plus both are daughters of powerful monarchs, makes sense! One of Hebe’s symbols is an eagle which conveniently is also Austria’s coat of arms. Marie Antoinette’s homeland

Vesta

-Vesta or Hestia as she’s known in Greek mythology was the personification of the hearth and its fire, a symbol of society and family, also denoting authority and kingship. I can’t figure out when the two paintings of her as Vesta were painted but my theory is that in the one where she’s depicted looking young, she symbolizes herself as the mother of the French people. The second one seems more intimate, considering Louis XVI kept a copy of it and he’s depicted in the painting.

But that’s it! Someone correct me if I’m wrong ahaha

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Four months before the revolution of 1830, on March 29, King Ferdinand of Spain abolished Salic law in favor of his daughter, Isabella, to the prejudice of his younger brother, Charles. When the French Bourbons were told of the news, Marie-Thérèse grumbled that France should have done the same thing long ago.

Marie Thérèse, The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter by Susan Nagel

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Marie Thérèse Charlotte in The Escape of Louis XVI

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Forgot I made this meme lol

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"She [Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales] fixed upon Prince Leopold, say the English who are here, by her own free choice alone; and she loudly declared that she expected to be happy, because she had listened to no guide but her own heart. The prince [Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld] pleased her mightily.”

"I can easily believe it,” observed the emperor [Napoleon Bonaparte]; “for if I remember rightly, he was the handsomest young man I saw at the Tuileries.”

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I FORGOT I DREW THIS AHAHAHHA Clone High Leopold I of Belgium doing the hands thing 😭😭😭

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Once peace was signed Antoinette again saw her English friends, including Georgiana and her mother Lady Spencer. One day they were arguing about the most refined English word for culottes.

'Small clothes’ said Lady Spencer decisively.

‘But the dictionary gives "breeches",’ objected Antoinette.

‘Not a polite word. But you can say "inexpressibles"?’

'I like that better.'

In came the Duke of Dorset, Edward Dillon and several other Englishmen; as they were going to the King's hunt, they wore new, rather loud buckskin breeches. Antoinette decided to try the new word, and came out with:

‘I do not like dem yellow irresistibles.’

The Princesse de Lamballe, who tells the story, says that Lady Spencer nearly fainted, but that she and the Queen laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks.

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Another popular movie based on a historical woman that I do not like is the 1997 Anastasia movie. I know it’s a movie for kids, I know it obviously won’t be accurate. But it’s one of those movies that shouldn’t of have been made. There’s so many inaccuracies in it and I feel it sugarcoats the decades of bad choices of the Tsars. Its like an illusion of a fairytale story which in Anastasia Nikolaevna’s case, isn’t.. she died tragically and movies like this feel so wrong considering this was a real person

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Marie Louise Duchess of Parma in the 1955 Napoleon Movie