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Love this

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Alexandr Averin (Russian, b. 1952). Oil on canvas.

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Marie Antoinette 1938! This dress is truly amazing. It’s so fluffy and so angel like. Like she’s walking in the clouds.

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Kanami Ayano in Marie Antoinette (2018, Toho Stage)

↳ It is not claimed for the Princesse de Lamballe that she was a woman of much firmness or strength of character; clever people sneered at her simplicity of mind; strong ones at her weakness of body. She had no love for intrigue, struggle, decision, anxious excitements, yet she, of all the Court, proved as a rock of friendship among shifting sands. In happier times people accused her of mercenary motives in demanding well-paid posts at Court; but, setting aside the fact that she asked for far less than most, her wealth was almost entirely spent on the poor; she lived no life of special luxury herself. She had her…jealousies and subterfuges, her fits of melancholy and depression, her wholly irrational sympathies and antipathies….She hated having to give up all her pretty things, and while willing enough to bestow generously upon the poor, objected to reduce her expenses and her people at the arbitrary will of the National Assembly. Lauzun, and others, laughed at her constant fainting-fits, and held her able for no truly great enterprise; but there was no faint-heartedness when the supreme moment came to choose between death and safety. Nor was the choice made in any moment of heated exaltation; it was taken deliberately and coolly, and she knew well what lot it was she had chosen when she wrote that will and parted from her friends at Aix-la-Chapelle – Blanche Hardy, The Princesse de Lamballe: A Biography pub. 1906, pg. 304

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The queens favorites. Far left: the duchess de polignac. Middle: Marie Antoinette. And far right: the princess de lamballe. They where true friends till the end.

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