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chaotic-history · 8 months ago

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@earlgrey24 you've inspired me

Hi my name is Chevalier François-Marie Arouet de Volatire Gentilhomme de Chambre du Roi. I like writing satire (that's why I got put in the Bastille) and I have a long grey wig à la Duc de Nevers and sparkly dark eyes that everyone talks about. A lot of people tell me my style looks like Louis 14 (AN: if u don't know that is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to the Duc de Richelieu but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I live in Prussia but I'm French. I have pale white skin. I'm also a poet, and I write for the Comédie-Française which should really be called the Theâtre-Française where my plays are the most famous (I wrote my first one when I was nineteen). I'm basically nobility (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear a lot of lace and wig powder. All of my clothes are retro because it's cooler. For example today I was wearing a long pink and gold waistcoat, grey stockings, a blue silk coat with matching trousers and long lace cuffs reaching to my fingertips, a powdered wig, and my red Louis 14 shoes. I was walking outside Sanssouci. It was cloudy and I was freezing. Maupertuis stared at me and I put my middle finger up at him.

#of-#- the three wearers only the last now persists.#voltaire #notes: yes V did include chevalier in his titles on Mlle Corneille's wedding documents. why? i don't know #à la duc de nevers comes from Grimm's correspondance where he said Nevers had created a style of wig imitated only by Bachaumont and V #V said the comédie-française should be renamed the théâtre-française since most of the plays put on weren't comedies #émilie said he wore too much lace and used too much wig powder #he did wear clothes that were more late 17thC; mostly the wig style and longer waistcoats and cuffs #and you can see the louis xiv shoes (with the red heels) in huber's painting Voltaire's Morning #i'm disappointed i couldn't think of a good lead in to “(that's how i got my name)”#cause there's so many possibilities lol #oh and the eyes that everyone talks about is cause Pearson's “everyone mentioned them; men as well as women” (not incorrect)

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