#Dauphi

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

On 16 Oct 1793 Marie Antoinette was executed following her two day trial.

“It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France (Marie Antoinette), then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendor and joy. 

Oh, what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.

But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defense of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.”

Irish Statesman, Edmund Burke - 1793

[tiny-librarian]

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like the morning star full of life and splendour and joy.

Oh, what a revolution! and what a heart must I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream, when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour, and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.

But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom! The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Edmund Burke

[vangold]

Still didn’t manage to pick up with the schedule but eh. We’ll get there eventually :P

Once again was eager to get some more variety into this little challenge. While there is no way in hell these two would ever hook up, I can still see Charm pouncing Cooper like he probably is gonna pounce everybody in the bar and tries to flirt his way into his pan- uh his.....soul? O__o

Going like “I, THE GREAT PAPYRUS AM LOOKING FOR AS MUCH PRETTY NEW FRIENDS AS POSSIBLE TONIGHT AND YOU WOULD FIT SO PERFECTLY TO MY COLLECTION!”, mainly just getting that confused wtf-gaze. Ah welp, as long as Jack can prevent him flirting with Jazzy we good with Coops....if you listen closely you might hear Jack’s internal screaming tho XD

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Wednesday 25 June 1834

8 ½

11

no kiss crept into my own separate bed without kissing or awaking her very fine morning F78° at 8 ½am - breakfast till 9 ¾ - off from Fontainebleau at 10 13 at Moret [Moret-sur-Loing] at 11 10 – nice little walled

villa with large square tower remaining of old castle - picturesque old porte de ville at each end of the goodish street we passed thro’ - very pretty close round the ville - good old bridge (stone) over broad shallow Loing with its poplared banks and mills and waster women - and a little beyond bridge over good navigable canal - at Sens at 3 35 – sent the carriage to ‘la poste’ and A- and I stopt at cafe (just on entering the ville) and in ¾ hour milk got (sought at 5 or 6 places) boiled and Adny had had a café au lait which warmed her and took off her sensations of faintness. The woman had coffee ready-made in the morning and kept in a pot -jar pour la fraîcheur - she made it by pouring over at least ¼ a litre full of coffee a litre of boiling water (a litre is about an English pint) thro’ a strainer - the café au lait  was very good-  then saw the handsome cathedral - the monument in the choir to the memory of the dauphin and dauphiness  father and mother of Louis 16, very fine - worthy of being the chef d’ oeuvre of Couston - In the carriage again and off at 4 40 – Sens is a nice little village - chiefly one good long street thro’ which we passed terminated by 2 belles portes de ville the country around agreeable, closed in by a beautifully shaped range of limestone or chalk hill beautifully covered with corn and vine and pretty well wooded - soon see the Yonne a broad shallow stream (here and there reeds peeping up in the very middle of it) flowing thro’ a fine valley - the vine [clouded] woody hills with stripes of corn, very pretty - very pretty drive from Sens to  Villeneuve Leroy [Villaneuve-le-roi] – a little ville,  much smaller than Sens but with 2 ports de ville, as at Sens - At Joigny at 7 10 – beautiful drive long the fine valley at Yonne all the way from Sens to Joigny  -we had a most agreeable shady drive, chiefly thro’ the forest from Chailly to Fontainebleau and partly thro’ the forest from F- to Fossard a nice little town – ordered dinner at Joigny (hotel des 5 mineurs in the faubourg on this side the 7 arched handsome over the Yonne stone bridge) and  Miss W- and  I walked back into the town and up the steep narrow streets to the church not very large but remarkable for its very lofty nave - the chateau was destroyed in the 1st revolution - then walked along the pretty elm shaded public promenade along the river - (soldiers at drill on the ground near it) - out 50 minutes and pretty good dinner at 8 35 - had our bottle of Champagne we brought from my cave rue St. Victor - wants drinking - very fine day – F72° at 10 35 pm

[anastasianikolaevnaromanova]

“The ceremony took place at the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris on 24 April 1558. It was a Sunday and the citizens of Paris flocked to see the spectacle, as was intended. Henry II would not have wasted the opportunity to display Valois power and prestige and his mastery of the public event was very much in evidence at the wedding of the Scottish queen destined to be the wife of his eldest son. A covered walkway had been erected to frame the bridal procession as it made its way from the palace of the archbishop of Paris to the main entrance of the cathedral itself, where a raised stage across the west front allowed onlookers a better view of the leading participants in this wedding that was intended to unite two kingdoms forever. No doubt the Scottish lords present would have taken great pride in their queen when she appeared, flanked by her future father-in-law and her cousin, the duke of Lorraine.

Mary was tall for her age and already a fine-looking woman. She had deliberately broken with tradition and chosen a white wedding dress, presumably because she thought it showed off her colouring better and would also attract attention. White was normally the colour of mourning in France and the widows of French kings were supposed to wear it for months after their spouse’s demise, so Mary made an emphatic break with tradition when she chose it for her wedding day. Those who saw portents in such choices might have felt a frisson of concern for this confident beauty who flaunted the traditions of French royalty so alluringly but Mary does not seem to have been subject to such doubts. The dress itself was made of white satin and it glittered with diamonds and jewelled embroidery. Over it she wore a mantle of blue velvet embroidered with white silk and pearls, tapering into a long train that was carried by two maids of honour.

The jewels worn by Mary were equally impressive. She had a splendid pendant around her neck, engraved with Henry II’s initials. She called it ‘Great Harry’ and eventually placed it among the Scottish Crown jewels. Her hair hung loose down her back, as was customary with brides in those days, and on her head was a magnificent gold crown studded with gems – rubies, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and pearls – all gleaming in the bright light of a Parisian spring day. The marriage ceremony was performed by Charles Bourbon, the cardinal archbishop of Rouen, and the wedding ring was taken by the king of France off his own finger and handed to his son to be placed on Mary’s. This could be seen as a gesture of affection or a further indication of his complete ownership of the Scottish queen herself. A nuptial Mass followed as Francis and his wife sat on thrones beneath a canopy of cloth of gold.

Mary had upstaged her husband by making herself the centre of attention, perhaps the first time in the sixteenth century that the bride, rather than the groom, took all the attention at a royal wedding. Back in 1503 Mary’s grandmother, Margaret Tudor, could only have wished for such admiration. The dauphin, however, seems to have taken his bride’s stealing of the limelight in good part. Perhaps he was getting used to it by then and he was certainly no heroic figure himself. Physically, he and Mary were a totally mismatched pair. Mary’s letter to her mother claiming that it was the happiest day of her life shows, if she genuinely meant what she said, that dynasticism was her driving motive in life. She had, no doubt, learnt this from those all around her. In truth, Mary was marrying a sickly runt. The prince looked younger than fourteen and was reported to be sexually immature; it was said that his testicles had not dropped. Despite this, there were reports that the union had been consummated but there would scarcely have been any publicity if the opposite were, in fact, the case. Francis appears to have been genuinely fond of the glittering girl who looked at least twenty sitting beside him in Notre Dame and he knew his duty. The marriage would give him the crown matrimonial of Scotland and the impressive if clumsy title of King-Dauphin while his wife became Queen-Dauphiness. Presumably he also knew, as the Scottish nobility watching did not, that his father had made sure that Scotland would remain subject to French rule even if Mary were to die childless. His wife could have her moment in the sun but the Valois family would be winners in the end.” — Linda Porter, Tudors versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots

[madeleineengland]

Princess Marie-Louise Thérèse of Savoy: Marie Antoinette's best friend

She was a member of a cadet branch of the House of Savoy, better known as Princess de Lamballe. After her marriage, she went to the french court and became the closest confidante of Queen Marie Antoinette. She will be killed in the massacres of September 1792 during the French Revolution.

She was there along the other dukes and the duchess when Marie Antoinette arrived in France in 1770. The two girls grew close rather quickly and they had become truly devoted to each other.

The pair was rarely seen apart, and if they were, Marie Antoinette would draw images of the Princess and weep about missing her.

Marie Antoinette was reportedly charmed by Marie Thérèse, and overwhelmed her with attention and affection that spectators did not fail to notice.

In March 1771 the Austrian ambassador reported:

"'For some time past the Dauphiness has shown a great affection for the Princesse de Lamballe. . . . This young princess is sweet and amiable, and enjoying the privilèges of a Princess of the Blood Royal, is in a position to avail herself of her Royal Highness's favour."

Their friendship was so close that Lamballe managed to marry her cousins to Marie-Antoinette's brothers-in-law, and Marie Therese came to be treated by Marie Antoinette as a relative, and they spent most of the time together.

During these first years, many counts and countesses formed a circle of friends with Marie Antoinette and the princess de Lamballe, who was as almost constantly by Marie Antoinette's side.

Madame de Campan, a lady in waiting, described her and the Queen as twins.

On 18 September 1775, following the ascension of her husband to the throne in May 1774, Queen Marie Antoinette appointed Marie Thérèse "Superintendent of the Queen's Household", the highest rank possible for a lady-in-waiting at Versailles.

Her new role meant that the Princesse was elevated above all other women at court, on top of this she had to organise all entertainments for the Queen and she received all of the Queen’s letters and petitions.

After Marie Antoinette became queen, her intimate friendship with Lamballe was given greater attention and Mercy reported:

"Her Majesty continually sees the Princesse de Lamballe in her rooms [...] This lady joins to much sweetness a very sincere character, far from intrigue and all such worries. The Queen has conceived for some time a real friendship for this young Princess, and the choice is excellent, for although a Piedmontese, Madame de Lamballe is not at all identified with the interests of Mesdames de Provence and d'Artois. All the same, I have taken the precaution to point out to the Queen that her favour and goodness to the Princesse de Lamballe are somewhat excessive, in order to prevent abuse of them from that quarter."

Marie Antoinette said herself to Louis XVI: "Ah, sire, the Princesse de Lamballe's friendship is the charm of my life."

Princesse de Lamballe was described as proud, sensitive and with a delicate though irregular beauty.

Despite envy and jealousy of the court, she was mostly regarded as an honest and true friend who stayed away from plotting and gossip: not a wit and not one to participate in plots; she was able to amuse Marie Antoinette, but she was of a reclusive and quiet nature and preferred to spend time with the queen alone rather than to participate in high society.

In 1775, however, Lamballe was gradually replaced in her position as the favorite of the queen by duchesse de Polignac. The two didn't get along and Polignac always tried to overshadow Lamballe's presence at court.

Though de Lamballe was replaced by de Polignac as favorite, the friendship with the Queen nevertheless continued and it resisted through the time and the revolution: Marie Antoinette occasionally visited her in her rooms, and reportedly appreciated her serenity and loyalty in between the entertainments offered her by Polignac. "She is the only woman I know who never bears a grudge; neither hatred nor jealousy is to be found in her."

After the death of her mother, Marie Antoinette isolated herself with Lamballe and Polignac during the winter to mourn.

On 7 October 1789, Lamballe was informed of the events of the Revolution, and immediately joined the Royal Family to the Tuileries Palace in Paris, where she reassumed the duties of her office for being side by side with the Queen.

Even in those terribile moments she's always seen at the queen's side both in public as well as in private, and rallying support for the family.

The Princess de Lamballe became much more protective at this time, interrogating members of the Queen’s household to find out if those surrounded the Queen were truly loyal to her.

After the departure from France of the duchess de Polignac and most of the other of the queen's intimate circle of friends, Marie Antoinette warned Lamballe that now her visible role attracted much of the anger among the public toward the favorites of the queen, and that libels circulating openly in Paris would expose her to slander.

The King and the family tried to escape in June 1791, but they were caught in a town called Varennes and brought back to Paris.

The Princess de Lamballe was not told about the escape attempt until afterwards, she would have received a note from Marie Antoinette who told her to meet her in Brussels.

Princess de Lamballe was long in doubt as to whether she would be in most use for the queen in or outside of France, and received conflicting advice: her friends M. de Clermont and M. de la Vaupalière encouraged her to return to the service of the queen, while her relatives asked her to return to Turin in Savoy.

During her stay abroad, she was in correspondence with Marie Antoinette, who repeatedly asked her not to return to France.

"No, once again, do not return, my dear heart. Do not throw yourself into the tiger’s jaws. I suffer already too much uneasiness for my husband and my poor little children … Adieu, my dear heart; your friendship is my consolation and my only happiness."

However, in October 1791, the new provisions of the Constitution came into operation, and the queen was requested to set her household in order and dismissed all office holders not in service: she accordingly wrote officially to Lamballe and formally asked her to return to service or resign. This formal letter, though it was in contrast to the private letters Marie Antoinette had written her, reportedly convinced her that it was her duty to return, and she announced that the queen wished her to return and that "I must live and die with her."

During the Demonstration of 20 June 1792, she was present in the company of the queen when a mob broke into the palace. Marie Antoinette immediately cried that her place as by the king's side, but Lamballe then cried: "No, no, Madame, your place is with your children!", after which a table was pulled before her to protect her from the mob. Lamballe, alongside and a few noblemen belonged to the courtiers, surrounding the Queen and her children for several hours when the mob passed by the room shouting insults to Marie Antoinette. According to a witness, princess de Lamballe stood leaning by the queen's armchair to support her through the entire scene: "Madame de Lamballe displayed even greater courage. Standing during the whole of that long scene, leaning upon the Queen's chair, she seemed only occupied with the dangers of that unhappy queen without regarding her own"

Marie Louise de Lamballe continued her services to the Queen until the attack on the palace on 19 August 1792.

She and the other ladies-in-waiting were separated from the Royal Family and transferred to the La Force prison, though the Queen fought to keep the Princess de Lamballe with her and wept while she knelt at her feet and kissed her hands.

The two left each other with deep sorrow and the queen advised her to spend some days in the country for the sake of her health before she retired. In secret the Queen prayed the governess of her children, Elizabeth de Tourzel, to take great care of Madame de Lamballe and prevent, as far as possible, her having to reply to captious questions.

During the September Massacres, the prisons were attacked by mobs, and the prisoners were placed before hastily assembled people's tribunals, who judged and executed them summarily.

Princess de Lamballe was brought before a temporary tribunal, where she was asked to swear an oath to liberty and equality and to swear against Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. It is believed that she refused to swear the oath against the king and queen, as it was “not in her heart.”

After this, agents of her father-in-law told her to swear the oath so that she might be spared, but she refused to do so and reportedly said: “I have made the sacrifice of my life”.

She was condemned, then released outside to the street to a waiting crowd, where she was murdered.

She was escorted by two guards to the door of the yard where the massacre was taking place: when the door was opened and she was exposed to the sight of bloody corpses in the yard, she reportedly cried: 'I am lost!'

One of her murderers, long years after, described her as a little lady dressed in white, standing alone a moment above the carnage...

She was first struck by a man with a pike on her head, which caused her hair to fall down upon her shoulders, revealing a letter from Marie Antoinette which she had hidden in her hair. She was decapitated, with its head placed upon a pike and paraded beneath Marie Antoinette’s window at the Temple.

Marie Antoinette did not actually see the head of her long-time friend, but was aware of what happened...

One of the officers told the king: "they are trying to show you the head of Madame de Lamballe". The Queen then fainted away.

Marie Antoinette's daughter said that her mother was seized with horror, that was the sole moment when her firmness abandoned her.

The murder of the Princesse de Lamballe marked Marie-Antoinette deeply; she never got over it.

"Adieu, my dear Lamballe, I embrace you again with my whole heart, as I shall love you all my life"

[Portraits by Elisabeth Le Brun]

Princess of Lamballe was described as sensitive and simple. "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." - Blanche Hardy ~ Princess de Lamballe: A Biography

The Princesse de Lamballe’s body was never found despite her father-in-law searching desperately for it.

[timehasbeenbusy]

Fontainebleau to Joigny

Wednesday 25 June 1834 

8½

11

No kiss crept into my own separate bed without kissing or awakening her   Very fine morning Fahrenheit 78º at 8½ a m breakfast till 9¾  Off from Fontainbleau 10 13/.. –

La pont de Moret - Alfred Sisley   Source commons.wikimedia.org

At Moret at 11 10/.., nice little walled villa with large square tower remaining of old castle – picturesque old porte de ville at each end of the goodside street we passed thro’ – very pretty close round the ville – good old bridge (stone) over broad shallow Loing with its poplared banks, and mills, and washer women – and a little beyond bridge over good navigable canal – 

At Sens at 3 35/.. – sent the carriage to la Poste and Adny and I stopt at cafe, just on entering the ville, and in ¾ hour milk got (sought at 5 or 6 places) and boiled and Adny had café au lait which warmed her and took off her sensation of faintness – The woman had coffee ready made in the morning and kept in a pot-jar pour la fraîcheur – she made it by pouring over at least ¼ litre full of coffee a litre of boiling water (a litre is about an English pint) thro’ a strainer – the café au lait was very good – 

Sens cathedral      Source en.wikipedia.org

Then saw the handsome cathedral – the monument in the choir to the memory of the dauphin and the dauphiness father and mother of Louis 16, very fine –worthy of being the chef d’Quvre d’œvre of Coustou – 

In the carriage again and off at 4 10/.. – Sens is a nice little ville – chiefly one good long street thro’ which we passed terminated  by two belles portes de villeand country around agreeable, closed in by a beautifully shaped range of limestone or chalk hill beautifully covered with corn and vine and pretty well wooded – 

Soon see the Yonne a broad shallow stream (here and there reeds peeping up in the very midst of it) flowing thro a fine valley – the vine clad woody hills with stripes of corn, very pretty – very pretty drive from Sens to Villeneuve Leroy – a little ville, much smaller than Sens, but with two portes de ville, as at Sens – 

Yonne valley     Source pxfuel.com

At Joigny at 7 10/.. – beautiful drive along the fine valley of Yonne all the way from Sens to Joigny – we had a most agreeable shady drive, chiefly thro’ the forest from Chailly to Fontainebleau, and partly thro’ the forest from Fontainebleau to Fossard a nice little town – 

Joigny     Source fr.wikipedia.org

Ordered dinner at Joigny - Hotel des 5 Mineurs in the fauburg on this side the 7 arched handsome street bridge over the Yonne and Miss Walker and I walked back into the town and up the steep narrow streets to the church.  Not very large but remarkable for its very lofty nave – the chateau was destroyed in the 1st revolution – then walked along the pretty elm shaded public promenade along the river – (soldiers at drill on the ground near it) – 

Out 50 minutes and pretty soon dined at 8 35/..

Pouring 2 champagne glasses   Source  en.wikipedia.com

Had our bottle of champagne we brought from my cave at rue St Victor – wants drinking – very fine day - Fahrenheit 72º at 10 35/..p m

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[madame-coquette]

“ The Dauphiness continually gave proofs of both sense and feeling. Sometimes, she even suffered herself to be carried away by those transports of compassionate kindness which are not to be controlled by the customs which rank establishes. 

In consequence of the fire in the Place Louis XV., which occurred at the time of the nuptial entertainments, the Dauphin & Daphiness sent their whole income for the year to the relief of the unfortunate families who lost their relatives on that disastrous day. 

This was one of those ostentatious acts of generosity which are dictated by the policy of princes, at least as much as by their compassion; but the grief of Marie Antoinette was so profound, and lasted several days; nothing could console her  for the loss of so many innocent victims; she spoke of it, weeping, to her ladies, one of whom, thinking, no doubt, to divert her mind, told her that a great number of thieves had been found among the bodies, and that their pockets were filled with watches and other valuables. “ They have at least been punished, “ added the person who related these particulars. 

“ Oh, no, no, madame ! “ Replied the Dauphiness; “ they died by the side of honest people ! “  - Madame Campan ‘ Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette ‘

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This isn’t the only act of thoughtfulness & compassion that we are gifted an account of either. It does show that while Marie was openly more emotional about the things going on around her, ( her husbands aunts & the french court itself looked down on this ), this is clearly a trait that should be celebrating in someone who’s future job it will be to help govern a country.

( I’ll type up the next account of Marie’s kindess in a little bit ! ) 

[woollyslisterblog]

1834 June Wednesday 25th

SH:7/ML/E/17/0046

8 1/2

11

No kiss crept into my own separate bed without kissing or awaking her –

very fine morning F78° at 8 1/2 a.m. breakfast till 9 3/4 off from Fountainebleau 10 15/60 = at Moret at 11 10/60 once little walled villa with large square tower remaining of old castle – picturesque old porte de ville at each end of the [goodsil?] street we passed through – very pretty close round the villa – good red bridge (stone) over broad shallow Loing with its poplared banks and mills and washerwomen – and a little beyond bridge over good navigable canal –

at Sens at 3 35/60 – sent the carriage to la poste and Ann and I stopt at the café, just on entering the ville, and in 3/4 hour milk got (sought at 5 or 6 places) and boiled and Adny had had café au lait which warmed her and took off her sensation of faintness – the woman had coffee ready made in the morning and kept in a pot – jar pour la fraîcheur – she made it by pouring over at least 1/4 a litre full of coffee a of boiling water (a litre is about an English pint) through a strainer – the café au lait was very good – then saw the handsome cathedral – the monument on the choir to the memory of the dauphin and dauphiness father and mother of Louis 16, very fine – worthy of being the chef d’œuvre of Coustou – In the carriage again and off at 4 10/60 –

Sens is a nice little ville – chiefly one good long street through which we passed terminated by 2 belles portes de ville the country around agreeably closed in by a beautifully shaped range of limestone or chalk hill beautifully covered with corn and vine and pretty well wooded – soon see the Yonne a broad shallow stream (here and there reeds peeping up in the very middle of it) flowing through a fine valley- the vine clad woody hills with stripes of corn, very pretty –

a very pretty drive from Sens to Villeneauve Leroy – a little ville, much smaller than Sens, but with 2 portes de ville, as at Sens – at Joigny at 7 10/60 – beautiful drive along the fine valley of Yonne all the way from Sens to Joigny – we had a most agreeable shady drive chiefly through the forest from Chailly to Fontainebleau, and partly through the forest from Fontainebleau to - Fossard a nice little town –

ordered dinner at Joigny, Hotel de 5 mineurs in the [unreadable] on this side 7 arched handsome stone bridge over Yonne and Miss Walker and I walked back into the town and up the steep narrow streets to the church not very large but remarkable for its very lofty nave – the chateau was destroyed in the 1st revolution – then walked along the pretty Elm shaded public promenade along the river – (soldiers at drill on the ground near it) – out 50 minutes and pretty good dinner at 8 35/60 – had our bottle of champagne we brought over from my cave rue St Vincent – wants drinking – very fine day – F72° at 10 35/60 p.m. –

[tiny-librarian]

And at one o'clock on the 16th, in the chapel of the palace, the Primate of France, the Archbishop of Rheims, performed the marriage ceremony. A canopy of cloth of silver was held over the heads of the youthful pair by the bishops of Senlis and Chartres. The dauphin, after he had placed the wedding-ring on his bride's finger, added, as a token that he endowed her with his worldly wealth, a gift of thirteen pieces of gold, which, as well as the ring, had received the episcopal benediction, and Marie Antoinette was dauphiness of France.

The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France - Charles Duke Yonge

[kogenta-cosplay]

FRA "La relève est assurée !" ENG "The succession is assured!"

Byakko: @kogenta-cosplay Akaroo: Candy-Candy Cosplay

Photo : Steeve Dauphy Serie : @officialmiraculousladybug Design : SylviaGB

[vangold]

First pic with Lustcest for the Fontcestweek

*heavy breathing* That.fracking.BACKGROUND. <___< *dies* BTW. This is perfectly Dauphi and Jack in a nutshell XD But they are so happy and excited about it, that you just can't bring it to tell them "UUUUUUHM, Darling, that dress to that scarf....nuh-uh!" XDDDDD While Jack looks perfect as always with Dauphi a lot of times you have this thing: He sees Jack dressing up, gets excited and wants to dress up too and being as sexy as his older brother and you usually end up with something like you get when your 5 year old daughter tries to dress up like mommy XDDDD

[biserarose]

COUNSELS GIVEN BY PHILIP AUGUSTUS TO ST. LEWIS

On the day that the king left Hyeres, he went down front the castle on foot, because the hill was steep; and he wen so far on foot, not being able to come at his own palfrey, that he had to mount on mine. And when his own palfrey cam up, he turned very angrily on Ponce, the squire; and after he had missaid him well, I said: “ Sire, you ought to forgive much to Ponce, the squire; for he has served your grand father, and your father, and yourself.” “ Seneschal,” sail he, “ he has not served us, but we have served him, in suffer king him to remain near our persons considering Nisei qualities.

For King Philip, my grandfather, told me that we ought to reward our servants, one more and the other less, according to their service; and he used to say again that none can govern a country well if he does not know how to refuse as boldly, and with as much hardihood, as b knows how to give. And I teach you these things,” said the king, “ because the world is so eager to ask and acquire, that there are few people who look\to the salvation of their souls and their personal honour, provided they can draw to them selves the goods of others, whether rightfully or wrongfully tour bulgaria.’

INVILLE PARTS FROM THE KING HE COMES TO HIM AGAIN LATER AT SOISSONS MARRIAGE BETWEEN ISABEL OF FRANCE AND THIBAUT II.

KING OF NAVARRE

The king passed through the county of Provence to a city lied Aix in Provence, where it was said that the body of e Magdalen lay; and we went to a very high cave in a ok, where, so it was related, she had lived in hermitage for vented years. When the king came to Beaucaire, and I w him in his own land, and his own dominions, I took live of him, and went to the Dauphiness of Vienne, my eke, and to the Count of Chalon, my uncle, and to the Count Burgundy, his son.

And when I had sojourned a space at Joinville, and had ranged my affairs, I went back to the king, whom I found . Soissons; and he made such joy of me that all who were ere marveled. There I found Count John of Brittany, id his wife, the daughter of King Thibaut, who offered to homage to the king for all such rights as she might have Champagne; and the king adjourned the matter, and if erred her, as also King Thibaut II., to the parliament of iris, where they might be heard, and justice done to the arties.

To this parliament came the King of Navarre and his tunicle, and the Count of Brittany also. At this parliament king Thibaut asked for my Lady Isabel, the king’s daughter, I have her to wife. Notwithstanding the words tilt our people of Champagne spoke behind my back, because of the very they had seen the king show to me at Soissons, 1 did not firebar to go to the king and speak to him about this larriage.1 “ Go,” said the king, “ and get the Count of dittany to agree, and then we will conclude our marriage.’’’ nd I told him tilt he ought not to give up the marriage on tat ground (i. e., if the count objected). But he said that n no account would he conclude the marriage until such .me as an agreement had been come to; for no one should veer say that he had married his children by depriving his aprons of their heritage.

I reported these words to Queen Margaret of Navarre, and the king her son, and to their other counsellors; and when Sense a little obscure, and MSS. not quite agreed.

they heard them they hastened to come to an agreement And so soon as they were agreed, the King of France gave his daughter to King Thibaut; and the nuptials were celebrated at Melun, largely and with full pomp; and from thence King Thibaut led his bride to Proving, where the; made their entry amid a great number of barons.

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COUNSELS GIVEN BY PHILIP AUGUSTUS TO ST. LEWIS

On the day that the king left Hyeres, he went down front the castle on foot, because the hill was steep; and he wen so far on foot, not being able to come at his own palfrey, that he had to mount on mine. And when his own palfrey cam up, he turned very angrily on Ponce, the squire; and after he had missaid him well, I said: “ Sire, you ought to forgive much to Ponce, the squire; for he has served your grand father, and your father, and yourself.” “ Seneschal,” sail he, “ he has not served us, but we have served him, in suffer king him to remain near our persons considering Nisei qualities.

For King Philip, my grandfather, told me that we ought to reward our servants, one more and the other less, according to their service; and he used to say again that none can govern a country well if he does not know how to refuse as boldly, and with as much hardihood, as b knows how to give. And I teach you these things,” said the king, “ because the world is so eager to ask and acquire, that there are few people who look\to the salvation of their souls and their personal honour, provided they can draw to them selves the goods of others, whether rightfully or wrongfully tour bulgaria.’

INVILLE PARTS FROM THE KING HE COMES TO HIM AGAIN LATER AT SOISSONS MARRIAGE BETWEEN ISABEL OF FRANCE AND THIBAUT II.

KING OF NAVARRE

The king passed through the county of Provence to a city lied Aix in Provence, where it was said that the body of e Magdalen lay; and we went to a very high cave in a ok, where, so it was related, she had lived in hermitage for vented years. When the king came to Beaucaire, and I w him in his own land, and his own dominions, I took live of him, and went to the Dauphiness of Vienne, my eke, and to the Count of Chalon, my uncle, and to the Count Burgundy, his son.

And when I had sojourned a space at Joinville, and had ranged my affairs, I went back to the king, whom I found . Soissons; and he made such joy of me that all who were ere marveled. There I found Count John of Brittany, id his wife, the daughter of King Thibaut, who offered to homage to the king for all such rights as she might have Champagne; and the king adjourned the matter, and if erred her, as also King Thibaut II., to the parliament of iris, where they might be heard, and justice done to the arties.

To this parliament came the King of Navarre and his tunicle, and the Count of Brittany also. At this parliament king Thibaut asked for my Lady Isabel, the king’s daughter, I have her to wife. Notwithstanding the words tilt our people of Champagne spoke behind my back, because of the very they had seen the king show to me at Soissons, 1 did not firebar to go to the king and speak to him about this larriage.1 “ Go,” said the king, “ and get the Count of dittany to agree, and then we will conclude our marriage.’’’ nd I told him tilt he ought not to give up the marriage on tat ground (i. e., if the count objected). But he said that n no account would he conclude the marriage until such .me as an agreement had been come to; for no one should veer say that he had married his children by depriving his aprons of their heritage.

I reported these words to Queen Margaret of Navarre, and the king her son, and to their other counsellors; and when Sense a little obscure, and MSS. not quite agreed.

they heard them they hastened to come to an agreement And so soon as they were agreed, the King of France gave his daughter to King Thibaut; and the nuptials were celebrated at Melun, largely and with full pomp; and from thence King Thibaut led his bride to Proving, where the; made their entry amid a great number of barons.

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COUNSELS GIVEN BY PHILIP AUGUSTUS TO ST. LEWIS

On the day that the king left Hyeres, he went down front the castle on foot, because the hill was steep; and he wen so far on foot, not being able to come at his own palfrey, that he had to mount on mine. And when his own palfrey cam up, he turned very angrily on Ponce, the squire; and after he had missaid him well, I said: “ Sire, you ought to forgive much to Ponce, the squire; for he has served your grand father, and your father, and yourself.” “ Seneschal,” sail he, “ he has not served us, but we have served him, in suffer king him to remain near our persons considering Nisei qualities.

For King Philip, my grandfather, told me that we ought to reward our servants, one more and the other less, according to their service; and he used to say again that none can govern a country well if he does not know how to refuse as boldly, and with as much hardihood, as b knows how to give. And I teach you these things,” said the king, “ because the world is so eager to ask and acquire, that there are few people who look\to the salvation of their souls and their personal honour, provided they can draw to them selves the goods of others, whether rightfully or wrongfully tour bulgaria.’

INVILLE PARTS FROM THE KING HE COMES TO HIM AGAIN LATER AT SOISSONS MARRIAGE BETWEEN ISABEL OF FRANCE AND THIBAUT II.

KING OF NAVARRE

The king passed through the county of Provence to a city lied Aix in Provence, where it was said that the body of e Magdalen lay; and we went to a very high cave in a ok, where, so it was related, she had lived in hermitage for vented years. When the king came to Beaucaire, and I w him in his own land, and his own dominions, I took live of him, and went to the Dauphiness of Vienne, my eke, and to the Count of Chalon, my uncle, and to the Count Burgundy, his son.

And when I had sojourned a space at Joinville, and had ranged my affairs, I went back to the king, whom I found . Soissons; and he made such joy of me that all who were ere marveled. There I found Count John of Brittany, id his wife, the daughter of King Thibaut, who offered to homage to the king for all such rights as she might have Champagne; and the king adjourned the matter, and if erred her, as also King Thibaut II., to the parliament of iris, where they might be heard, and justice done to the arties.

To this parliament came the King of Navarre and his tunicle, and the Count of Brittany also. At this parliament king Thibaut asked for my Lady Isabel, the king’s daughter, I have her to wife. Notwithstanding the words tilt our people of Champagne spoke behind my back, because of the very they had seen the king show to me at Soissons, 1 did not firebar to go to the king and speak to him about this larriage.1 “ Go,” said the king, “ and get the Count of dittany to agree, and then we will conclude our marriage.’’’ nd I told him tilt he ought not to give up the marriage on tat ground (i. e., if the count objected). But he said that n no account would he conclude the marriage until such .me as an agreement had been come to; for no one should veer say that he had married his children by depriving his aprons of their heritage.

I reported these words to Queen Margaret of Navarre, and the king her son, and to their other counsellors; and when Sense a little obscure, and MSS. not quite agreed.

they heard them they hastened to come to an agreement And so soon as they were agreed, the King of France gave his daughter to King Thibaut; and the nuptials were celebrated at Melun, largely and with full pomp; and from thence King Thibaut led his bride to Proving, where the; made their entry amid a great number of barons.