#Maurice Leloir

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

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

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The Temple of Love, by Maurice Leloir, 19th century. 🌸

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The Temple of Love, Maurice Leloir, 19th century

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If you're looking for a TL;DR version of Rousseau's Confessions all you need is this:

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"Модели", 1883

Французский художник: Морис Лелуар (Maurice Leloir, 1853 - 1940)

Панель, масло; 60.5×73.5 см

Частная коллекция

[vincentbriggs]

Hi Vince! I thought you'd like to know I found the source for the wrapping gown diagram you included in your post on wrapping gowns. The book is Histoire du Costume by Maurice Leloir. The patterns were available on the Costumer's Manifesto website at one time. https://web.archive.org/web/20070406092438/http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/leloirpatterns.htm

oooh thank you! That has been a mystery to me for YEARS!

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SAS: Rogue Heroes Season 1 Episode 3 The Burial of Manon Lescaut, 1878 by Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret The Burial (An illustration from Manon Lescaut), 1900 by Maurice Leloir

[vintagerpg]

En Garde! (1975) is the first roleplaying game from Game Designers’ Workshop. It’s the earliest swashbuckling game (set in Musketeer-era France, or at least a simulacra of that era constructed from swashbuckling Hollywood films).

Like Boot Hill, this is primarily a one-on-one tactical combat game, though unlike Boot Hill, there is quite a bit going on beside the combat. The combat is about what you’d expect, though an interesting complication is that duelists lay out a series of pre-planned actions in secret and then attempt to reconcile them. There’s something neat about this programming.

More interesting is the focus on the character’s life that takes up the rest of the book. There is a mechanical social life that plays out week to week, with the character taking part in social activities and, hopefully, gaining status points. This system provides a loose narrative framework for potential tomfoolery, duels and other roleplaying opportunities. It’s the first social simulation I can think of and, the ONLY one, for several years. The next thing to emerge like this is probably Midkemia’s Cities simulator.

The other interesting thing is the game’s approach to military life — a necessary part of a gentleman’s life, taking up the entirety of the summer season with campaigning, which imparts special effects, benefits and, possibly, death. This is a clear forerunner to Traveller’s tours of duty lifepath system.

It also establishes a couple of GDW’s publication practices — the book is chapbook sized, give or take, and, aside of the Maurice Leloir illustration on the cover (from The Three Musketeers), there is no art inside.

[slettlune]

i couldn't sleep so i sat up all night finishing reading the three musketeers

groggy morning thoughts:

this story is bawdier than i imagined it! i have never seen an adaptation capture the way dumas keeps reminding you that the musketeers fuck: frequently, enthusiastically, and they especially appreciate getting paid for it. it doesn't happen on-page (it's not that kind of book), but it's very clear that they all have substantial sexual experience (even if athos has become celibate by the time the story begins).

i STILL don't agree with the translator's comment: aramis IS my favourite musketeer, he IS easy to love actually!! my personal ranking goes aramis >>> athos > d'artagnan > porthos. yes athos wins second place for having cyclical depression and making sarcastic jokes about it.

on the subject of "this was clearly written for a certain kind of male audience of a different time"... i admit that that one "humorous" nonconsensual sex scene was an uncomfortable chapter to get through

the female main characters were all AWESOME. i LOVE a vicious female villain! i could have done without one of the many "ooh curses that i am a weak, easily-fainting WOMAN and physically and mentally inferior to a man" internal monologues, but what can you do

i did not wind up shipping any of the main guys together, which, believe me, comes as a surprise. i fully believe in their bond and their fierce loyalty to and love for each other, but i don't need them to kiss on the lips about it. i DO think all of them (excepting d'artagnan) have had male lovers though

i checked and was disappointed that there is not a single lord de winter/tom felton fic on ao3. the religious devotion that separates them, the personal devotion that ties them together... i might have to write something.......

BUT THE WOMEN THOUGH. the women should ALL explore each other's bodies. you can't throw multiple "unhappily forced to be a nun" characters at me like this and not make me imagine them doing things to each other

i sampled several different translations and i really really really wound up enjoying lawrence ellsworth's, PERFECT mix of easy-to-read and formal, and i especially appreciated how their speech still retained french phrases here and there in an elegant, unobtrusive way.

the political machinations stuff in the early chapters <3 AAAH! i'd read a WHOLE book just about monsieur de treville elegantly tiptoeing between factions. the adventure stuff is exciting; the comedy is hilarious; the melodrama is a little meh for me, but the political drama is EXCELLENT. i wish it had continued through the book.

honestly a surprisingly fast-paced story for a 700+ pages novel. lots of twist and turns and suspense and wild horseback chases and more than a few very dramatic coincidences. i gasped irl

what i really appreciate with dumas is how he makes you wait for reveals. he'll give you all these little enticing mysteries to ponder and then it feels SO satisfying when you can finally go OOOH THAT'S WHAT THAT WAS ABOUT

it's still so wild to me that most of these characters were based on and named after real historical people. dumas has SUCH an affection for cardinal richelieu. i never realized that although he's a formidable antagonist, he's presented in an almost endearing way. that's dumas' historical blorbo

a lingering question i have is HOW was athos married and madly in love and NEVER saw his wife's naked shoulder? gonna have to assume athos is a fast cummer so they never got around to undressing properly

this is book ONE of EIGHT in the musketeer cycle and i get that dumas didn't figure it'd be a series because it ends with a bratpack freeze frame about every important character and how each spent the remainder of their lives... and now i have to read the other books because HOW do you sneak in more grand adventures in between developments like that???

the old maurice leloir illustrations in the edition i read are so expressive and lovely and replicated the EXACT feeling i'd get when i'd read classics as a kid. i loved contemplating each one

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The Busy Street, (1898)

By : Maurice Leloir (1853-1940)

French

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Le temple de l'amour, Maurice Leloir

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🌸 Detail : The Temple of Love, by Maurice Leloir (19th century)

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file: Tête féminine de dos avec coiffe de dentelle, Fonds d’archives graphiques de Maurice Leloir, 1962.67.11.4.22.jpg

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"The Drink of Milk" by Maurice Leloir

French, 1882

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[bibliosauruswrecks]

I save pictures of art for a number of reasons. Sometimes it’s because it sparks a story idea. Other times because I go “Ooh, that’s pretty! I wanna make that dress!” even though I probably never will. And sometimes it’s because I just find it pleasing to look at.

But every now and then I come across something that reminds me that people have always been people, and not everything was serious.

And on that note, I present:

Google tells me this is L'Escalade by Maurice Leloir.

I feel like this has potential as the next big meme.