#Le roi soleil

[illustratus]

Le Roy Soleil (The Sun King) illustration by Maurice Leloir

Louis XIV in costume as Apollo in the Ballet de la Nuit

[sovamurka]

A sentence that I cannot say among my musical circle because I'd be bullied immediately: European musicals are ten times better than Broadway ones 😔

[amadeus-for-music]

ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ᴍᴇɴ (ɪɴ ꜰʀɪʟʟʏ ᴏᴜᴛꜰɪᴛꜱ) ᴋɪꜱꜱɪɴɢ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴍᴇɴ ɪɴ ᴍᴜꜱɪᴄᴀʟꜱ 💋

ᴇʟɪꜱᴀʙᴇᴛʜ - ᴅᴀꜱ ᴍᴜꜱɪᴄᴀʟ

ᴍᴏᴢᴀʀᴛ ʟ'ᴏᴘᴇʀᴀ ʀᴏᴄᴋ

ᴍᴏᴢᴀʀᴛ ʟ'ᴏᴘᴇʀᴀ ʀᴏᴄᴋ 3ᴅ

ʟᴇ ʀᴏɪ ꜱᴏʟᴇɪʟ

[la-luna-maria]

Flesh in the fruit and blood in the wine

I don't want anything if the whole world isn't mine

I can't believe it's finally finished! After 8 months of work I am glad to present you, ladies and gentleman my 17th century men's costume. It's made out of satin and trimmed with lace, which was sewn on by hand. The wig was also styled by me.

[starmaniamania]

Part of the cast was live on the radio today and sang some Starmania airs as well as songs from other musicals, interspered with little interviews about their background and Starmania experience!

Setlist:

Maag, "Les Adieux d'un Sex Symbole" (Starmania, obvs)

Jeanne Jerosme & Nic Dorian, "De Delphine à Lancien" (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)

Adrien Fruit & cast, "La chanson de Ziggy" (Starmania)

Malaika Lacy, "Gimme Gimme" (Thoroughly Modern Millie)

Alex Montembault, "Un garçon pas comme les autres" (Starmania)

Nic Dorian, "If I didn't Believe in You" (The Last Five Years)

Max Carpentier, "Monsieur Cellophane" (Chicago, French translation)

Alice Nguyen, "Une vie juste rêvée" (Sister Act, French translation)

Maag & Malaika Lacy, "Take Me or Leave Me" (Rent)

Nic Dorian & Max Carpentier, "Only Us" (Dear Evan Hansen)

Adrien Fruit, "Je fais de toi mon essentiel" (Le Roi Soleil)

Malaika Lacy & Nic Dorian, "The Sweetest Sounds" (No Strings)

Maag, "She Used to be Mine" (Waitress)

Jeanne Jerosme, "Le rêve de Stella Spotlight" (Starmania)

You can also download a zip file of just the songs.

[roehenstart]

Louis XIV of France. Circle of Pierre Mignard.

[minmole]

screen short studies

[dreamconsumer]

King Louis XIV of France.

[doyouknowthismusical]

[forsuperbang]

La comédie musicale Le Roi Soleil fête son retour en France.

[useless-catalanfacts]

Portrait of Louis XIV in Coronation Clothes (1701) by Jacint Rigau. Louvre Museum, Paris.

This is the most famous painting by the artist Jacint Rigau, though most of the time you'll see the artist credited as Hyacinthe Rigaud... Do you want to know what happened?

Jacint Rigau was born in Perpinyà (Northern Catalonia) in 1659. Perpinyà was a city like any other in Catalonia, where the population spoke the Catalan language. As was normal, he was named in their mother tongue, the Catalan name "Jacint" with his family's surname Rigau.

However, a few months after his birth, the part of Catalonia north of the Pyrenee mountain range was annexed by France. This part of Catalonia became known as "Northern Catalonia", and it's still part of France nowadays.

In April 1700, the king of France Louis XIV (seen in the portrait above) forbid the use of the Catalan language in public, saying that "the Catalan language [...] its use is repugnant and is in some way contrary to Our Authority, to the honor of the French Nation".

Jacint Rigau moved out of Northern Catalonia to go learn painting in Montpellier and later moved to work Paris for the French nobles. He became one of the most important painters of the time in France and so, as we saw at the beginning of the post, he was even commissioned the King's portrait.

Here's a few examples more of his work:

Self-portrait of the artist (1696), private collection.

Portrait of Marie Cadenne (1684), Musée des Beaux-arts de Caen.

Left: Louis of France, the Great Dauphin (1688), Versailles palace. Right: Louis of France, Duke of Bourgogne (1704), Versailles palace.

With the historical context and the discrimination against the Catalan language, it's no surprise that he had to translate his name to French. What might surprise you if you're not familiar with France's history of language discrimination is that, even now (2022), Northern Catalans aren't allowed to name their children in the Catalan language if it uses a graphy that doesn't exist in French. For example, you can't be called popular names like "Martí", "Víctor" or "Lídia" because of the excuse that "í" doesn't exist in French.

The official prohibition of using the Catalan language in public acts is also still active. Only some months ago, the French government sued the city council of the village Elna (Northern Catalonia) for having used Catalan alongside French in the city hall's meetings.

Now you know!

[harrietsfanpage]

incorrect versailles quotes #1

random courtier: I heard that Madame de Maintenon…

Louis: You are BANISHED from Versailles!

Philippe: I hate your new wife.

Louis: That’s all right, brother. I still love you.

[la-luna-maria]

- Reverie -

Running from this reality

Cursed by heavy burden of mortality

No chance of going back

Fear of loosing my track

No matter how lost

My heart will always belong to this ghost

Château location ~ Spišský Hrhov, Slovakia

Dress, model and poem by me<3

[bestmusicalworldcup]

This poll is evaluating stage musicals, not the movie versions!

[somin-yin]

Gently and spicy with the King ❤️

I'm actually enjoying the King's route too but I'm not very fond of my MC being a mistress. So I wonder if there will be a way to become the Queen instead, because I so would 🤷‍♀️😂

Bonus