#comte de vaudreuil

[agentfascinateur]

Happy 4th of July, USA 🇺🇸

We were there. Make us proud.

#lesceptre #comtedevaudreuil #marineroyale #france

[hiidkwhatimdoing7525]

comte de vaudreuil because I saw him at the VMFA and he looked very interesting

[fabiansteinhauer]

Gentleman

The great hall: hier könnte auch William Wade, also Thomas Gainsboroughs Gemälde des Captains der englischen Navy, des Zeremonienmeisters oder Protokollchefs hängen, wenn es nicht woanders hängen müsste, nämlich in der Victoria Art Gallery.

In der großen (Eingangs-)Halle hängen gerade 10 Portraits und Doppelportraits im großen Stil. Gainsbororoughs Doppelportrait der Hallets und ihres Hundes, dessen Wischmopphaftigkeit derjenigen von Mrs. Hallets Frisur kaum nachsteht, hängt hier gleich ums Eck: links neben Drouais' Portrait des Comte de Vaudreuil.

Nahezu alle Portraits stammen aus der Phase, der Thomas Vesting in seiner Geschichte und Theorie der Rechtssubjekte die Figur des Gentleman zugeordnet hat (und die er mit William Wades Bild illustriert hat.

Wie singen die Groben in England zu dem Portrait?

All at once I was struck with the portrait of Wade, 

Which tho’ like him in feature tis much too tall made 

And looks, like its master – ashamed of its trade 

For it’s drawn as if walking alone in the fields 

In a jauntee undress which the present mode yields 

Uncovered – as tho he intended to bow 

To an ox or an ass – to a heffer or cow. 

[gregdotorg]

Trying to make sense of Delamarre and his painting of a dog said by someone (tho not anyone in history) to be Marie Antoinette's beloved Pompon, in the context of Marie Antoinette actually beloved painters, and it's not evening out.

L: Anne Vallayer-Coster's best still life, she got a studio in the Louvre and a stipend from M-A. R: Elisabeth Louise Vigee le Brun's portrait of the comte de Vaudreuil, her patron, who slept his way to power at Versailles, which led to her becoming the favorite portraitist of the queen and her groupies. Bottom: Delamarre's dog, supposedly Pompon, bless his wide-eyed, shaved-ass soul

[marat]

this is the place that my research project has led me

[margridarnauds]

Honestly, one of the unsung heroes of the French Revolution is the Comte de Vaudreuil, because that man REALLY had to handle Artois' messy love life while he was in exile. "Your Highness, please don't run off to be with your mistress-"

"You're at your father-in-law's court, Your Highness"

"Don't-" "Artois no-"

"Not Italy-"

"A R T O I S"

"Your letter wasn't intercepted, I know that it reached-"

"Stop worrying-"

"Isn't there a revolution going on?"

"Mme. de Polastron, I know it's distressing, but, please-"

[reblogged-art-that-liked]

The Comte de Vaudreuil by François-Hubert Drouais, 1758. If you go to the link you can zoom in on it even more. Vaudreuil was a real character.

[countryimages]

Elizabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun - Portrait of Joseph Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil (1740–1817)

[usergreenpixel]

JACOBIN FICTION CONVENTION MEETING 1: La Seine no Hoshi (1975)

1. Introduction

Well, dear reader, here it is. My first ever official review. And, as promised, this is one of the pieces of Frev media that you have likely never heard of before.

So, without further ado, sit down, relax, grab drinks and snacks and allow me to tell you about an anime called “La Seine no Hoshi” (The Star of the Seine).

“La Seine no Hoshi” is a children’s anime series made by Studio Sunrise. It consists of 39 episodes and was originally broadcast in Japan from April 4th to December 26th of 1975.

Unlike its more famous contemporary, a manga called “Rose of Versailles” that had begun being released in 1972 and is considered a classic to this day, “La Seine no Hoshi” has stayed relatively obscure both in the world of anime and among other Frev pop culture.

Personally, the only reason why I found out about its existence was the fact that I actively seek out everything Frev-related and I just happened to stumble upon the title on an anime forum several years ago.

So far, the anime has been dubbed into Italian, French, German and Korean but there is no English or even Spanish dub so, unfortunately, people who do not speak fluent Japanese or any other aforementioned language are out of luck ( if anyone decides to make a fandub of the series, call me). That being said, the series is readily available in dubs and the original version on YouTube, which is where I ended up watching it. The French dub calls the anime “La Tulipe Noire” (The Black Tulip), which could be an homage to the movie with the same name that takes place in the same time period.

Unfortunately, while I do speak Japanese well enough to maintain a basic conversation and interact with people in casual daily situations, I’m far from fluent in the language so the version I watched was the French dub, seeing as I am majoring in French.

So, with all of this info in mind, let’s find out what the story is about and proceed to the actual review.

2. The Summary

(Note: Names of the characters in the French dub and the original version differ so I will use names from the former since that’s what I watched)

The story of “La Seine no Hoshi” revolves around a 15-year old girl called Mathilde Pasquier - a daughter of two Parisian florists who helps her parents run their flower shop and has a generally happy life.

But things begin to change when Comte de Vaudreuil, an elderly Parisian noble to whom Mathilde delivers flowers in the second episode, takes her under his wing and starts teaching her fencing for an unknown reason and generally seems to know more about her than he lets on.

Little does Mathilde know, those fencing lessons will end up coming in handy sooner than she expected. When her parents are killed by corrupt nobles, the girl teams up with Comte de Vaudreuil’s son, François, to fight against corruption as heroes of the people, all while the revolution keeps drawing near day by day and tensions in the city are at an all time high.

This is the gist of the story, dear readers, so with that out of the way, here’s the actual review:

3. The Story

Honestly, I kind of like the plot. It has a certain charm to it, like an old swashbuckling novel, of which I’ve read a lot as a kid.

The narrative of a “hero of the common folk” has been a staple in literature for centuries so some might consider the premise to be unoriginal, but I personally like this narrative more than “champion of the rich” (Looking at you, Scarlet Pimpernel) because, historically, it really was a difficult time for commoners and when times are hard people tend to need such heroes the most.

People need hope, so it’s no surprise that Mathilde and François (who already moonlights as a folk hero, The Black Tulip) become living legends thanks to their escapades.

Interestingly enough, the series also subverts a common trope of a hero seeking revenge for the death of his family. Mathilde is deeply affected by the death of her parents but she doesn’t actively seek revenge. Instead, this tragedy makes the fight and the upcoming revolution a personal matter to her and motivates her to fight corruption because she is not the only person who ended up on its receiving end.

The pacing is generally pretty good but I do wish there were less filler episodes and more of the overarching story that’s dedicated to the secret that Comte de Vaudreuil and Mathilde’s parents seem to be hiding from her and maybe it would be better if the secret in question was revealed to the audience a bit later than episode 7 or so.

However, revealing the twist early on is still an interesting narrative choice because then the main question is not what the secret itself is but rather when and how Mathilde will find out and how she will react, not to mention how it will affect the story.

That being said, even the filler episodes do drive home the point that a hero like Mathilde is needed, that nobles are generally corrupt and that something needs to change. Plus, those episodes were still enjoyable and entertaining enough for me to keep watching, which is good because usually I don’t like filler episodes much and it’s pretty easy to make them too boring.

Unfortunately, the show is affected by the common trope of the characters not growing up but I don’t usually mind that much. It also has the cliché of heroes being unrecognizable in costumes and masks, but that’s a bit of a staple in the superhero stories even today so it’s not that bothersome.

4. The Characters

It was admittedly pretty rare for a children’s show to have characters who were fleshed out enough to seem realistic and flawed, but I think this series gives its characters more development than most shows for kids did at the time.

I especially like Mathilde as a character. Sure, at first glance she seems like a typical Nice Pretty Ordinary Girl ™️ but that was a part of the appeal for me.

I am a strong believer in that a character does not need to be a blank slate or a troubled jerk to be interesting and Mathilde is neither of the above. She is essentially an ordinary girl with her own life, family, friends, personality and dreams and, unfortunately, all of that is taken away from her when her parents are killed.

Her initial reluctance to participate in the revolution is also pretty realistic as she is still trying to live her own life in peace and she made a promise to her parents to stay safe so there’s that too.

I really like the fact that the show did not give her magic powers and that she was not immediately good at fencing. François does remark that her fencing is not bad for a beginner but in those same episodes she is clearly shown making mistakes and it takes her time to upgrade from essentially François’s assistant in the heroic shenanigans to a teammate he can rely on and sees as an equal. Heck, later there’s a moment when Mathilde saves François, which is a nice tidbit of her development.

Mathilde also doesn’t have any romantic subplots, which is really rare for a female lead.

She has a childhood friend, Florent, but the two are not close romantically and they even begin to drift apart somewhat once Florent becomes invested in the revolution. François de Vaudreuil does not qualify for a love interest either - his father does take Mathilde in and adopts her after her parents are killed so François is more of an older brother than anything else.

Now, I’m not saying that romance is necessarily a bad thing but I do think that not having them is refreshing than shoehorning a romance into a story that’s not even about it. Plus most kids don’t care that much for romance to begin with so I’d say that the show only benefits from the creative decision of not setting Mathilde up with anyone.

Another interesting narrative choice I’d like to point out is the nearly complete absence of historical characters, like the revolutionaries. They do not make an appearance at all, save for Saint-Just’s cameo in one of the last episodes and, fortunately, he doesn’t get demonized. Instead, the revolutionary ideas are represented by Florent, who even joins the Jacobin Club during the story and is the one who tries to get Mathilde to become a revolutionary. Other real people, like young Napoleon and Mozart, do appear but they are also cameo characters, which does not count.

Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI are exceptions to the rule.

(Spoiler alert!)

Marie-Antoinette is portrayed as kind of spoiled and out of touch. Her spending habits get touched on too but she is not a malicious person at heart. She is simply flawed. She becomes especially important to the story later on when Mathilde finds out the secret that has been hidden from her for her entire life.

As it turns out, Marie- Antoinette, the same queen Mathilde hated so much, is the girl’s older half-sister and Mathilde is an illegitimate daughter of the Austrian king and an opera singer, given to a childless couple of florists to be raised in secret so that her identity can be protected.

The way Marie-Antoinette and Mathilde are related and their further interactions end up providing an interesting inner conflict for Mathilde as now she needs to reconcile this relationship with her sister and her hatred for the corruption filling Versailles.

The characters are not actively glorified or demonized for the most part and each side has a fair share of sympathetic characters but the anime doesn’t shy away from showing the dark sides of the revolution either, unlike some other shows that tackle history (*cough* Liberty’s Kids comes to mind *cough*).

All in all, pretty interesting characters and the way they develop is quite realistic too, even if they could’ve been more fleshed out in my opinion.

5. The Voice Acting

Pretty solid. No real complaints here. I’d say that the dub actors did a good job.

6. The Setting

I really like the pastel and simple color scheme of Paris and its contrast with the brighter palette of Versailles. It really drives home the contrast between these two worlds.

The character designs are pretty realistic, simple and pleasant to watch. No eyesores like neon colors and overly cutesy anime girls with giant tiddies here and that’s a big plus in my book.

7. The Conclusion

Like I said, the show is not available in English and those who are able to watch it might find it a bit cliché but, while it’s definitely not perfect. I actually quite like it for its interesting concept, fairly realistic characters and a complex view of the French Revolution. I can definitely recommend this show, if only to see what it’s all about.

Some people might find this show too childish and idealistic, but I’m not one of them.

I’m almost 21 but I still enjoy cartoons and I’m fairly idealistic because cynicism and nihilism do not equal maturity and, if not for the “silly” idealism, Frev itself wouldn’t happen so I think shows like that are necessary too, even if it’s just for escapism.

If you’re interested and want to check it out, more power to you.

Anyway, thank you for attending the first ever official meeting of the Jacobin Fiction Convention. Second meeting is coming soon so stay tuned for updates.

Have a good day, Citizens! I love you!

- Citizen Green Pixel

[hellovadimme]

Лондонская Национальная галерея

[amislouisxvi]

These spectacular portraits by Francois-Hubert Drouais are in London's National Gallery. Above, Portrait of the Comte de Vaudreuil. Below, Madame de Pompadour at her Tambour Frame.

[agentfascinateur]

"Combat de l'Intrépide s’élançant au secours du Tonnant" - 1747 (Versailles)

Le Tonnant lui-même, que montait M. (le Marquis) de L'Etanduère, avait reçu huit cents boulets et avait plus de cent tués ou blessés à son bord. Poursuivi par six vaisseaux ennemis à la fois, dégarni de ses mâts, de ses vergues, et faisant eau de toutes parts, il allait se rendre ou périr, lorsque le comte (Louis-Philippe) de Vaudreuil monté sur l'Intrépide, et commandant l'avant-garde française, s'élance au secours du Tonnant, passe a travers les vaisseaux anglais, en leur lâchant une double bordée, et vient fièrement se placer dans les eaux de son chef d'escadre. Seul, et bien qu'il comptât plus de cent-trente hommes baignés dans leur sang l'Intrépide tient tête à toute la flotte anglaise. II était huit heures et demie du soir. Étonnés du majestueux dévouement de I'lntrépide, non moins qu'épuisés par une lutte si meurtrière, les Anglais abandonnèrent la partie. Sans attendre le retour dans le port, M. de L'Etanduère écrivit, de son bord, à M. de Vaudreuil la lettre suivante :

"Mon cher Vaudreuil jamais manoeuvre n'a été plus belle, plus fière et plus distinguée que celle que vous avez faite. Vous m'avez tiré d'affaire avec un nombre de vaisseaux contre lesquels j'aurais été obligé de céder à la force. Nous pouvons dire que nous avons bien fait la manoeuvre des convois, qui est de se faire hacher pour sauver la flotte.

Je vous embrasse, mon cher Vaudreuil, de tout mon coeur; je fais mes amitiés à tout votre état-major et je vous remercie de votre bon secours."

Pour prix de sa bravoure, M. de Vaudreuil fut éle- vé, le 1'" avril 1748, au grade de chef d'escadre. Louis XV fit faire un tableau représentant l'Intrépide aux prises avec l'escadre anglaise. La copie de ce tableau existe au Musée de Versailles.

. . .

En: Battle of Cape Finisterre (October 1747), of the ship Intrepid against several British ships under Lord Admiral Edward Hawke.

Fr : Bataille du Cap Finisterre (octobre 1747), du navire l'Intrepide contre l'escadre anglaise d'Edward Hawke.

Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil est né le 26 septembre 1691 à Québec.

[nellygwyn]

Ooh, the story about the two women falling into a lesbian folie a deux and going into one of Marie Antoinette's re: your tags sounds interesting! Can you share?

This is all very sketchy but it’s compelling alas.

Uh, so it’s called the Moberly-Jourdain incident. Happened in 1901. Two women, Charlotte Anne Moberly and Eleanor Jourdain visited the Palace of Versailles and the grounds. They went to visit the Petit Trianon but got lost on their way there. This is when weird things started occurring. As they tried to find the path back, they started seeing a lot of weird things that hadn’t been there before: ramshackled old cottages with linen hanging out of the windows, strangely dressed gardeners who gave them directions and a creepy looking scarred man (who they later decided, after studying some history books, was the Comte de Vaudreuil. There was also a change of mood in the air too, like a depression had suddenly come over the both of them and they noticed how everything seemed more like a waxwork than real life, with even the sunlight feeling artificial. A man in a straw hat eventually showed them the way to the Petit Trianon and when they came to it, they saw a small party of people and a lady sketching in the long grass. In the book they published about this event, she is described as having seemed like she was supposed to be attractive but had something unnerving about her that made it weird to look at her. Later, the women concluded this was Marie Antoinette herself, and claimed she looked exactly like (including her dress) Wertmuller’s famous picture of her walking with her two children, which is often described as being one of the most accurate portrait representations of Marie Antoinette’s appearance. After this, the weirdness seems to have ended when they came across a normal dressed party of people, toured the Trianon and went for some tea. They didn’t really talk about anything they saw with each other.

A week goes by and Moberly is recounting her Parisian trip to her sister in great detail, in a letter; when she gets to the day they visited Versailles, she supposedly turned to Jourdain and asked her if she thought Versailles was haunted and Jourdain said she did. They realised they had both had a similar spooky experience when they got lost on their way to the Petit Trianon and decided to do some research into the history (I also should mention that they claim they returned to Versailles to see if they saw the same things again and to make sure there hadn’t been a special event on that day) and also write down exactly what they had seen in that small window of time, without consulting each other. From both their accounts, they discovered they had seen different things, or not seen things that the other had. They also discovered that the day they visited the Trianon (the 10 August) was the anniversary of the day, in 1792, when the Tuileries palace was besieged and the Swiss guard massacred. You might be thinking ‘Wait, but that has nothing to do with what they saw! They saw Marie Antoinette drawing and relaxing!’ and to that, I say: this is where it gets really, really weird. They concluded that they hadn’t exactly gone back in time, but rather, entered Marie Antoinette’s memory. They were inside Marie Antoinette’s head on 10th August 1792, observing her fond but now sad memory of a happy day at the Petit Trianon years earlier. It’s crazy, I know, but makes….sense in the weirdest way. They decided that this also explained why they had suddenly felt depressed and sombre and why some people they came across had appeared frightening (the Comte de Vaudreuil for example) and others not. Anyway, they published a book about their exploit in 1911, called The Adventure and it was very, very popular. It’s also really spooky, if you ever read it.

Many explanations have been put forward, from a sort of messed up time slip, to, of course, a lesbian folie-a-deux* (which is my favourite spin to put on the story, especially since Marie Antoinette herself was linked to women in her lifetime) but if you’re a sceptic like me, you’ll put it all down to very clever sensationalism and decide it was probably a very elaborate hoax. I still like the idea of it though.

* Folie-a-deux, I believe, is a form of psychosis, which is shared between two people at the same time; usually the people in question are close in some way.

[latabledogre]

La Table d’Ogre a testé pour vous (tasted for you) L’Epigramme (15/20 Catégorie Bleu) Pas d'agneau à la carte car l'épigramme (au féminin) n'est pas qu'une satire. Le mot (au masculin) vient d'une gourde marquise demandant à son cuisinier de lui préparer les mêmes épigrammes dont ses invités se seraient régalés chez le comte de Vaudreuil la veille. No lamb à la carte because the epigram (female) is not just a satire. The word (male) comes from a cloddish marquise asking her cook to prepare the same epigrams that her guests would have enjoyed at the Count of Vaudreuil's the day before. Article (FR/EN) complet sur mon blog www.latabledogre.com Lien dans ma bio. N’hésitez pas à laisser votre avis. Leave your advice if you like. #atthetable #foodpassion #gastronogram #simplisticfood #chefoninstagram #gastronomy #gastronomie #foodpassion #gastronogram #simplisticfood #googlelocalguide #europelocalguides #restaurantes #restaurantreview #restaurantfood #restaurantquality #restaurantphotography #restaurantparis #restoparis #parisfood #parisfoodie #pariseats #bonneadresseparis #topparisresto #parisrestaurant #parisfoodguide #parisianlifestyle #parisblogger #parisphotography #epigramme (à L'Epigramme) https://www.instagram.com/p/B674i5Ho4Gp/?igshid=12n48v3h77wsl

[princessofeboli1225]

Le Comte de Vaudreuil 1758, François-Hubert Drouais Oil on canvas 225.4 x 161.3 cm The National Gallery Inventory#: NG4253 https://www.instagram.com/p/Btq4uD1gXREbnqmvrOkN2kR-1rZXIJl8E0LDds0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1i0c05gkwebqt

[marat]

Lmao there’s this one letter from the comte d’Artois to his BFF the comte de Vaudreuil, right after the execution of Marie Antoinette where he’s essentially like “It’s so sad that they executed her!!! She was so nice to me!! There are so many things I could personally blame her for right now, but I’m so sad that I can’t remember what they are :)”

Like he and Antoinette were pals and Mercy-Argenteau, the Austrian ambassador to France, kept writing to Marie Thérèse of Austria like. “This Artois dickhead keeps inviting Her Majesty to his insane parties and making them both look like garbage people. Jesus Christ.”

And that’s why loads of people thought that Artois was the real father of Marie Antoinette’s kids, and people wrote long erotic rhyming poems like Les Amours de Charlot et Toinette.