#duc de lorraine

[dreamconsumer]

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

[lalchimiedecupid]

📍 Montréal, Duc De Lorraine.

[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!

[margothecreator]

Versailles [S2:E4]

[histoireettralala]

The Fall of Calais

Henri believed that an attack on Calais, the plan for which had been in long gestation, was the surest way to restore French honour. Guise was initially sceptical. In English hands since 1347, Calais was protected by a formidable system of outlying forts which had been modernized during the reign of Henry VIII. Moreover, the campaigning season was late and the Calais pale was dreadfully inhospitable terrain; its marshy and windswept flatlands presented a formidable challenge to supplying an army during the worst months of the year in a country that had recently suffered one of the greatest military disasters of the sixteenth century. Despite his misgivings, Guise had been presented with the opportunity of posing as the saviour of the country and he seized it with alacrity. The campaign exemplifies how the Guise brothers worked together as a team, or as "two heads in one hood", as a contemporary put it. Charles and François left nothing to chance. The final months of the year were dedicated to meticulous planning. An old-fashioned captain in the army, Blaise de Monluc, was astonished that a soldier like François should spend so much time on paper work: "The devil take all these writings for me, it seems he has a mind to save his secretaries labour." The logistical problems of supplying an army of 30-36000 men throughout the winter in country suffering from war fatigue cannot be underestimated. Cardinal Charles busied himself with feeding Mars, using expedients to screw cash from taxpayers and reluctant lenders. "I do not cease day and night," he replied to his brother's urgent demands, "to torment myself to advance your money and to pick all the purses I can find to help you." Squeezing them until their pips squeaked did nothing for his popularity among the common people.

Calais's dozen or so outlying forts amounted to a formidable obstacle. Above the town's main gate was the inscription: "Then shall the Frenchmen Calais win; when iron and lead like cork shall swim." Its main weakness was its old-fashioned castle, which had been overlooked by Henry VIII's engineers. The English were caught off-guard by an attack outside the campaigning season. The suddenness of the attack on 1 January allowed the French to capture a number of outlying forts and bring the town within cannon range. The French were thoroughly prepared for the terrain, to the point of having made pitch-covered mats to serve as artillery platforms on the marshes. They were helped by the cold weather which froze the shallower marshes, enabling their guns and equipment to cross the treacherous ground easily. After two days of bombardment from across the river Hames a breach was made in the castle walls. The river was fordable at low tide and the duke advanced, waist-deep in the water, at the head of several companies, while diversionary attacks elsewhere drew off the defenders. His troops took the castle with ease and put the garrison to the sword. He retired to camp, leaving his brothers, Aumale and Elbeuf, to hold the castle against two bloody English counter-attacks. On 8 January Lord Wentworth sued for terms. He and several English lords were held for ransom (though they were eventually released) and the rest of the garrison and all those inhabitants who wished to leave were given safe passage to the Flemish border. Guise captured a significant quantity of military supplies and commercial goods, which he shared among his captains [..]

The fall of Calais shocked Europe in its daring and its challenge to the traditional ways of war.

Stuart Carroll - Martyrs and Murderers: the Guise Family and the Making of Europe

[lemongrablothbrok]

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

[dreamconsumer]

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

[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

[thefreelancehistorywriter]

The Funeral of Claude of Lorraine, Duc de Guise – July 1, 1550

The Funeral of Claude of Lorraine, Duc de Guise – July 1, 1550

16th Century Italian Funeral procession in Padua 1583 “My son, my friend, if Fortune does me the wrong of taking him [her husband] from me, I will do with the honest people that I have here the best that I can, and you shall be advised of everything. For, my friend, after God, I can have no hope and consolation save in you and my other children. I cannot be without grief so great that in truth I…

[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.

[twyllodrus]

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