#French court

[illustratus]

Francis I in Benvenuto Cellini's Studio by Alexandre Évariste Fragonard

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-17

Mary and Francis

... And I'm on fire for you, clearly

You don't have to be alone

You don't have to be on your own...

And I love you, please come home."

[royalty-nobility]

Josephine Signing the Act of Her Divorce

Artist: Edward Matthew Ward (British, 1816-879)

Date: 1853

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

Description

The Emperor Napoléon and the Empress Josephine signed the papers confirming their divorce on 16 December 1809. Josephine was unable to bear children; therefore the couple were incapable of ensuring the succession of the Bonaparte dynasty. Their divorce was thus more a matter of State than the diminishing of their mutual affection. Here, Ward focused on the noble sacrifice that Josephine in particular made for the apparent good of France. He also incorporated many symbolic references to Napoléon and has even extended this to the elaborate decoration of the picture frame.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

François-Hubert Drouais (French, 1727-1775) Madame du Barry, the last mistress of Versailles, 1770 Fabre museum

She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution.

[denimoverall]

Ao3 Reign Fanfic

I am obsessively writing this 😂

[callsigncrash]

More pfps

[madamherstory]

Women under Francis I:

More than any previous king, Francis understood that royal pageantry enhanced his authority and that women were central to his court. They were not simply decorative embellishments of its many festivities. Instead, powerful, influential women shaped Francis’s reign and were essential to its accomplishments. […] They were political actors and diplomats. Under Francis, “women were everything, even generals and captains,” complained Marshal Gaspard de Saulx Tavannes in 1573, reflecting back on the court of his youth.

The women most closely associated with Francis were crucial in defining his reign and advancing the new culture of the court and thus in formulating his legacy—a distinctively French Renaissance. […] Francis [claimed that] “a court without women is like a year without spring”. […] The royal court, the venue in which the Renaissance emerged in France, was more hospitable to women than other new cultural sites, especially when the king promoted their participation.

[…] Foremost were the women of Francis’s family. His mother, Louise of Savoy, more than most royal mothers, lived through her son. She also acted with great competence as his agent in both domestic policy and international diplomacy. Francis and his mother essentially ruled together from his accession in 1515 until her death in 1531. His sister, Marguerite d’Angoulême, who subsequently became queen of Navarre, was a renowned author [and] attained distinction as a literary figure and religious thinker. One of Francis’s closest advisors, especially after the death of their mother, Marguerite conducted political and diplomatic missions on his behalf. But in her personal life, she, like most royal women, was largely a hostage to her brother’s interests. As a loyal sister, she was expected to subordinate her interests—public and personal, intellectual and political—to his.

Handsome and debonair, Francis was never at a loss for female companionship. His two officially designated mistresses were successively important. [They] frequently filled the public roles of the queen, presiding over some of the most lavish feasts associated with his reign.

[His relationship with his first, Françoise de Foix, Duchess of Chateaubriant] did not mask its sexual character. Instead, this mistress romanticized the king’s extramarital relationship, casting their relationship in an idealized light. [Her successor] Anne [de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Duchess of Étampes], his official mistress for the last twenty years of his reign, led a political faction and thus became a polarizing figure. The prominence of these two mistresses attests to an evolution in court culture away from the emphasis on female virtue, which had characterized Anne of Brittany’s [the consort of his predecessor, Louis XII] court, to Francis’s more libertine, sophisticated court.

[…] Francis was also married twice. Given the greater visibility of women in his court, one might expect that his wives would be more prominent. But for different reasons, Claude de France and Eleanor of Austria played less important public roles. A queen was not always a significant figure, especially if she was not assertive enough to define a distinctive place for herself. Francis’s queens failed to build on the legacy of Anne of Brittany, ceding power to other court women, remaining on the margins of public life, and, no doubt, making it more difficult for subsequent queens to reassert power. […] Francis’s queens thus fulfilled traditional political purposes: The first added territory to France; the second produced peace with a recent enemy, which became the chief rationale for later royal marriages. Although Francis disparaged a court without women, those most central to his reign are rarely acknowledged for their extensive and varied contributions to the glory of his.

— Kathleen Wellman, Queens and Mistresses of Renaissance France (chapter three: THE WOMEN OF THE COURT OF FRANCIS I – Wives and Mistresses, Sister and Mother)

[streetreporters]

Presidency Breaks Silence on Seizure of Nigerian Presidential Jets by French Court

The Presidency has finally broken its silence on the seizure of three Nigerian Presidential jets by a French Court, accusing the Chinese company involved, Zhongshan Fucheng Industrial Investment Co. Limited, of misleading the court. The Street Reporters Newspaper had reported that the jets, a Dassault Falcon 7X, a Boeing 737-7N6/BBJ, and an Airbus A330-243, were seized over a botched deal…

[nyabaaaaaa]

it’s him season

[unabashedqueenfury]

Reign 2013-17/01-07

Mary and Francis

[fripperiesandfobs]

Court train, First French Empire

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

[wherethemothsgrow]

Jeremy Knox absolutely hoeing it up through the whole book but gets flustered and nervous when Jean holds eye contact. Yeahhhhh book 3 is gonna be good

[head-post]

France issues arrest warrant for Syria’s President Assad

A French court has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Le Monde reports.

Bashar al-Assad is accused of complicity in crimes against humanity in the wake of chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source and plaintiffs in the case said on Wednesday, 15 November.

The judicial source told Agence France-Presse (AFP) that Assad is also suspected of complicity in war crimes related to the attacks, which the opposition accuses the regime of, that killed more than 1,400 people near Damascus in August 2013.

International arrest warrants have also been issued for Assad’s brother Maher, the de facto head of one of Syria’s elite military units, and two military generals.

The Paris court’s crimes against humanity unit has been investigating chemical attacks since 2021. 

Learn more HERE

[you-know-i-get-itt]

jean moreau you will always be famous

[elene78-blog]

Andrew looks at Kevin after the game against the Trojans.

"How does it feel?" He asks Kevin.

"Losing is not pleasant for anyone," says Kevin.

"Sorry," Andrew says without meaning it at all. "I wanted to say, how does it feel to know that Monsieur Misérable and Mr. Golden Smile are fucking together and have agreed to beat you up?"

Kevin turns to him with a growing bad mood.

"They're not having sex."

"D'Artagnan hit you too hard with the racket. You don't know what you're saying."

"They're not having sex, Andrew!"

"New bet then. I say that France conquers California before the end of the year... In two months if Monsieur Trauma takes care of his shit."

"...Jeremy has never told me he's gay."

Andrew remains silent. He turns his head towards Kevin very very slowly.

"300 dollars."

"We're not going to bet on this..."

"500 dollars."

"Why are you so happy to do this?"

"What do you mean, Kevin? I'm a very happy man."

It's impossible to tell if Andrew is joking with that unflappable expression.

And so the betting returns to the Foxes.