#Francophil

[ijustthrewawaymyshot]

Everything is so much funnier when you add "Francophile" to it!

Alexander Francophile

Aaron Francophile

John Francophile

Hercules Francophile

Marquis De Francophile

George Francophile

Eliza Francophile

Angelica Francophile

Peggy Francophile

King George Francophile

Thomas Jefferson

James Francophile

Philip Francophile

[motions1ckn3ss]

say hello to monsieur phryge, the newest addition to french corner (i'm not a francophile i swear)

[lafemmedargent16]

daft punk in the 90s

[antiqua-lugar]

the terror has me itching to fall into another rabbit hole about victorian racism because they absolutely nail the despair james would feel at "not being even English" but I need the details of what the Victorians were thinking about the Brazilians specifically. It's already pretty wild that James ends up embodying the English fear of miscegenation of all things, which right now I can't remember if it's openly addressed when it comes to Francis and Sophia or it's only implied (I am aware about the essays on how the Irish are an inferior race of "white gorillas", I don't believe for a second Sir John wasn't) but the ties to a different colonial empire...they had a caste system too, to add to the mindfuckery.

[ultramarine-spirit]

Athy teaches Lucas french. For @lithi

[frodothefair]

I want to be a Parisian and take all of the month of August off and go to the seaside. Is that so much to ask? This should be standard for all people everywhere. None if this paltry one-week business.

[boundprince]

francophile beatlejoshi reblogging jeanpaul-georges ringeaux not surprising.

WHAT THE HECK.

[postnuclearwar]

Francophile pokemon fans, please tell us about the historical trends that happened throughout France's history so we have some idea of the game's are direction

[akkivee]

we’ve had a few instances in canon where we hear that jyushi in his vkei king mode calls kuukou his master but like???? have we ever heard jyushi refer to hitoya as his god in canon yet???? that can’t still be arb exclusive right???? *crying* right?????

[herblay]

All for One and One for All

Ngl the day I found out that Horikoshi named his central villain All for One not even knowing where it came from is the day I gave up on everything because like come the fuck on let All for One be a big French lit nerd I want him in period garb I want him putting on a fake French accent I need him to have a weird collection of shit he stole acquired from the period.

I swear this is not just because I’m a big French lit nerd I just also will never get not googling the phrases you want to name your stuff after like imagine if you reference something you completely didn’t want to associate with. Why would you reference something you have no connection to? What’s the point?!

[ijustthrewawaymyshot]

Y'all answer me this.

If France is gay does that mean every francophile is secretly queer? 🤨

[randomtheidiot]

”Francophile” this, “Francophile” that, who is Franco and why the hell is he so desired???

[fideidefenswhore]

Elizabeth was as keen to shape the character as she was the intellect of her younger son, and judged her half-brother to be an ideal role model. Henry soon established a close bond with his uncle, and later reflected that Arthur had been 'the gentlest heart living'. Such warmth contrasts sharply with his more restrained, respectful references to his father. Their closeness would endure, with only one notable interruption, for many years to come, and Arthur would serve his nephew faithfully until the end of his days.

Henry VIII & the Men Who Made Him, Tracy Borman

[false-guinevere]

Rereading some of Le Morte and Gareth’s whole thing with going “Gawain is too vengeful and violent! I must follow a truly virtuous, loyal, would totally never commit needless violence or treachery, knight like Lancelot” will never not be funny. Talk about terrible judge of character

[daysofghoulhood]

Drawing boy automata(1774)

[theshadowmenlounge]

Richard III and The July Revolution

When I finally saw the Ian McKellan Richard III film I was a bit disappointed, his performance was great and there were interesting ideas to come from the concept of adapting this play to the 1930s.  But those ideas weren’t explored fully and the other performances were kinda dull.  

But my biggest pet peeve was removing Margaret of Anjou, now her presence in this play is it’s most explicit historical inaccuracy, the historical Margaret was not in England anymore during any of this time period, but an adaptation that removes it from even the pretense of being about actual history doesn’t need to worry about that.  As a story, her functioning as a Prophetess of Doom is a lot of why this play works and is why I’m glad the first version of it I ever watched was The Hollow Crown series where she’s played by Sophi Okonedo.

Thinking about the idea of adapting this play to other time periods got me to thinking as a part-time Francophile about the idea of using it as a framing device for a fictionalization of the July Revolution of 1830.

Charles X of France and this popular view of Richard III have in common being the youngest of three brothers who was more of a blatant tyrant then his older brothers and the end of his Dynasty overthrown in a Revolution that could also be viewed as more of a Coup. 

Charles was also rumored to have had an extramarital affair with Marie Antionette. Meanwhile he never married a daughter of Marie Antionette but his son did.

Orleans would thus fill the role of Richmond and everyone’s favorite crossover plot-line between the American and French Revolution the Marquis de Lafayette can fill the role of Lord Stanley crowning the new King at the end.

But here’s where specifically my Shadowmen interests come into play. The quasi Prophetess role of Margaret of Anjou can be filled by Josephine Balsamo the Countess of Cagliostro.  As a daughter of Josephine she too has a connection to a recently overthrown dynasty.