#duc de lorraine

[honeyrolls]

Strawberry / Strawberry / Raspberry

[dreamconsumer]

René d'Anjou (1409-1480). Unknown artist.

[sam-reid]

He might be the sun, my dear, but you are the star. And it is time you showed your brother how brightly you can sparkle.

EVAN WILLIAMS and ALEXANDER VLAHOS as Chevalier de Lorraine and Philippe I, Duc d'Orléans VERSAILLES 2.02: A STILL SMALL VOICE.

[knightofmordred]

9 years ⚜️🩷

[roehenstart]

Crossing the Bosphorus in May 1097 by Godefroy de Bouillon. By Emile Signol.

[potatostoreon]

Made the mistake of going in the Vaslav Nijinsky tag to find the usual defending of sexual predators like Sergei Diaghilev. If anyone bothered to read his diary, Vaslav made it very clear himself that he is a HETEROSEXUAL man who was FORCED to have sex with these predatory men in order to save himself and his mother from starvation.

People claim to have respect for him and many other historical figures but then can't even respect their sexuality, religion, beliefs, etc...

Lets not forget the many other victims of Sergei Diaghilev and other predatory men throughout the ages who used their power to take advantage of others who were desperate. It still happens today.

Lets also not forget the bi-erasure that I constantly see happening on this website.

If you don't respect the sexuality or gender of the people I post about on this blog and say they are lgbt just for "funsies", or you like calling a historical figure autistic or put on them any other label for which you have no evidence for just because you have put said label on yourself and find it "relatable", do not interact with me or my blog.

I rarely make my own posts now because of this. When I post about Louis XIII, a man I respect tremendously, it saddens me to see it being reblogged and liked by people who "ship" him with someone that was very much a father figure to him. Louis wasn't an anime character, he was a real person, with beliefs and morals that people who claim to like him, completely disrespect constantly.

I believe in freedom of speech, so you can ship these people and call them all kinds of labels (i admit some of them are funny unless you claim them as fact) but not whilst using my posts.

[unclefungusthegoat]

Don't mind me, just anguishing over the fact that when they're together, Chevy calls Philippe 'mignonette' and 'my dear' and 'my love' and 'darling'...

... and when they're broken up, he calls him 'Your Highness'.

[soundofdistantthunder]

I made a discord for anyone and everyone who loves the TV show Versailles. I would love to see some of you around!

[lemongrablothbrok]

Hey. Hey fam. You guys. You'll never guess who these two remind me of.

[random-racehorses]

Random Real Thoroughbred: DUC DE LORRAINE

DUC DE LORRAINE is a horse born in Brazil in 1979. By QUEDILIO out of JOGADA. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/duc+de+lorraine

[twyllodrus]

Evan Williams & Alexander Vlahos as Chevalier de Lorraine & Philippe I, Duc d'Orléans in VERSAILLES (2015-2018) – 2x04 Miasma

[dreamconsumer]

Godfrey of Bouillon (1060-1100). French school.

[oedelaberg]

Henri devrait inspirer les couturiers actuels !

Henri II de Lorraine, Duke of Guise by Anthony van Dyck, 1634.

[sam-reid]

Alexander Vlahos and Evan Williams as Philippe I, Duc D'Orléans and Chevalier de Lorraine VERSAILLES 2.06: THE SANDS OF TIME.

[knightofmordred]

a monchevy spin-off would be interesting ngl but i think it wouldn't realistically work? personally id prefer a spin-off after season three since monchevy would be at their most healthy then. they worked through so much to get to where they ended.

but i don't think that would work without the rest of the characters, especially louis. one of the main storylines in the show, and one of main parts of phillipe's storylines, was coming to terms with the fact his place was now at versailles and by louis' side. phillipe was well aware that his life wasn't his own but instead tied to the court, louis and the politics. phillipe finally accepted this fate in the last season and reconciled with louis - which also means he likely would be back as an advisor amongst the ministers. so it seems quite hard to imagine a monchevy spin-off without any of the other characters.

that being said of course there could be a spin-off from before louis decided to build the palace. i think it would be interesting to see monchevy's life before they moved to versailles, but at the same time I don't doubt their relationship would just replicate monchevy in s1-s2 (where they were at their most unhealthy stage).

idk, it's really interesting to think about as a monchevy spin-off is probably the most requested thing in the fandom. but i do struggle in seeing how this would work without louis or the other characters? but i get it, it's not an historically accurate show so the writers can basically do anything.

[scotianostra]

Marie Of Lorraine, also called Mary Of Guise/ Marie De Lorraine, or De Guise was born on November. 22nd, 1515 at Bar-le-Duc, Lorraine, France.

I cover Marie three or four times a year, but this time I shall post about her palace at 533 Castlehill on the Royal Mile.

Born in 1515, at the age of 11 Marie joined a convent. Her stay was relatively brief because her uncle, the Duke of Lorraine, took her into the French court where she matured into a tall, attractive, intelligent woman with auburn hair and grey eyes and with a ‘charming manner’. In 1534 she entered the first of her two relatively short marriages: to the Duke of Longueville with whom she bore 2 sons. Marie was widowed on the death of her husband in 1537. With the encouragement of the French king, Francis I,  Marie was betrothed to James V, and arrived in St Andrews to be married in the summer of 1538 whence followed 40 days of extravagant celebrations in honour of the occasion. She made her formal entry into the city of Edinburgh later in the year. As consort, Marie was guaranteed life-long rights (‘jointure’) to the Palace of Falkland, Stirling Castle, Linlithgow Palace, and other properties, together with substantial land holdings. By 1541 Marie had borne two sons, both of whom died in that year. In 1542, a daughter was born, the future Mary Queen of Scots: not the distant future given that her father died 6 days after her birth and the infant Mary thus became queen.

The Earl of Arran was appointed regent and governed during the turbulent years which followed, including the ‘rough wooing’ when an English invasion sought to force the Scots into accepting a marriage between Mary and Edward VI. Marie supported Arran and helped to maintain the effective alliance with France which eventually led to the withdrawal of the English army. In 1548, during the siege of Haddington, then occupied by an English garrison, Marie and the Scottish government signed the Treaty of Haddington at St Mary’s Abbey in which Mary was betrothed to the French Dauphin. In 1550/51 Marie travelled to France to complete the betrothal arrangements, among other things. On her return to Scotland, she set machinery in motion to replace Arran, buying  him off with a French dukedom, and so became Queen Regent in 1554. Her regency lasted until her death at the age of 44 in 1560.

It is thought that Marie spent much of her time in residence at Blyth’s Close off Castle Hill, in the period before her regency 1543-1554. Blyth’s Close no longer exists, having been demolished around 1846 to make way for New College and the Assembly Hall. Its location on the north side of the High Street was roughly opposite the Lawnmarket and, in the mid -16th century, Marie’s house would have been a large, imposing property with gardens and orchards laid out on the slope down to the Norloch. The view to the north would have been open and expansive. In the 1820s and 30s the buildings in the close were in a dilapidated, crumbling state and the High Street was by then crowded with the high tenement buildings with which we are familiar today. Victorian antiquarians took a great  interest in old Edinburgh and one among them, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, concerned about the state of the increasingly ruinous Queen Regent’s house, bought all salvageable fixtures and fittings from the tenants.

His collection included four carved oak roundels which had formed part of what had been a rich and colourful renaissance décor. By this time the roundels, having been moved from their original positions as ceiling or wall mounts, reapplied elsewhere and whitewashed over several times, had lost almost all trace of their original colours, but the carved coats of arms were (and still are) clear. Sharpe died in 1831 and his huge collection was auctioned off. Much was acquired by the National Museum, but not the roundels. These were purchased by the 2nd Duke of Sutherland. The duke seems to have been toying with the idea of using them as part of the interior décor of Dunrobin Castle. Apparently, they were never put on display in the castle and simply stored away. They finally came to light in a Dunrobin Castle attic sale in 2021, when Dr Groundwater was able to bid for them on behalf of the National Museum of Scotland. Her success cost around £19 000!

The roundels have been restored and are due to be going on display in The Kingdom of the Scots area in The National Museum of Scotland, I'm unsure if they have been put out as yet, maybe a wee trip to the museum is in hand to see, and get some pics.

As I said 533 Castlehill was demolished in 1861 to make way for the Free Church General Assembly Hall. Before demolition, portions of a beautifully painted ceiling from the palace were rescued and preserved. It's hard to imagine how the Palce looked, we have some drawings and Canmore have photos of some of the ceiling art, I shall post a link to, so you can look att more photos, the pioneering photographer duo, Hill and Adamson took a photo, as you can see in the stereoscope photos. The doorway is a remnant of the building. The last two photos are my own, taken just a week a go at r New College.