#elisabeth de france

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Last of their name

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On May 9th, 1794, Madame Elisabeth was transferred to the Conciergerie, from the Temple Prison where she had been kept with her niece, Marie Therese Charlotte.

She was brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal and accused of assisting in the Flight to Varennes, supplying funds to royalist sympathizers, and encouraging the resistance of the royal troops on August 10th, 1792. During her trial, when she was addressed as the sister of a tyrant, she replied that:

“If my brother had been what you call him, you would not have been where you are, nor I where I am”.

The Tribunal condemned her to death, and she was guillotined the next day.

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red + art

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Queen Isabel of Bourbon Equestrian

Artist: Diego Velázquez

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1635

Isabella of Bourbon was born Elisabeth of France, the eldest daughter of King Henri IV and sister of Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. In 1615 she married Philip IV, then Prince of Asturias and adopted the Spanish form of her name, Isabella. She reigned as Queen consort between 1621 and 1644. Known for her beauty and intelligence, Isabella was popular among her Spanish subjects and governed as regent during the Catalan Revolt. She died in 1644 aged forty-one.

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Oil Painting, 1789, French.

By Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun.

Portraying Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, Comtesse de la Châtre in a white muslin dress.

Met Museum.

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Élisabeth-Marguerite d'Orléans, petite-fille de France (1646-1696). Par Charles et Henri Beaubrun.

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Automne 1928 - Champs-les-Sims

3/5

C'est un homme très organisé. Il a pris ses quartiers dans le bureau de mon père, au milieu de toutes ces reliques égyptiennes qu'il entretient avec minutie. C'est un travail domestique traditionnellement dévolu à l'épouse, mais Ange y excelle et m'a avoué qu'il apprécie ce travail, car contrairement à moi, il n'a pas vraiment de profession. La gestion de ce qui reste du patrimoine familial ne nécessite plus énormément de temps, et génère assez de revenu pour l'entretenir lui et une partie du train de vie de son frère et de sa petite soeur. Mais Emilien a besoin de sa solde militaire pour vivre et leur mère s'est remariée en 1920 donc elle peut vivre avec l'argent de son mari. Autant dire qu'Ange ne va pas transmettre grand chose aux petites. Au début, je me suis dit que tenir l'économie de notre ménage allait l'ennuyer, mais il m'a répondu que c'était sa vie oisive qui était en train de l'ennuyer. C'est donc lui qui est devenu le principal interlocuteur de Mademoiselle Laroche et plusieurs changements sont survenus dans le rythme de notre vie.

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Marie-Louise-Élisabeth d'Orléans (1695-1719), Duchesse de Berry.

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Nicolas de Largillière, follower of (French, 1656-1746) Portrait of a Lady, said to be Marie-Elisabeth Le Fèvre de Caumartin, n.d.

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Philip IV of Spain and Elisabeth of France

When Elisabeth of France, the eldest daughter of King Henri IV and Marie de Medici, arrived at the Spanish court, Elisabeth under went significant change from a carefree young girl to a serious politician in her own right, acquiring political experience that would serve the crown well during the last years of her life. As the political situation grew more complicated, Elisabeth responded competently to the important matters that Philip IV gradually began to delegate to her. Elisabeth of France’s period of governance came at a crucial moment for the Spanish Monarchy, from 1642 to 1644, when it was undergoing an intense economic, military, and political crisis. At this same time, the king’s favourite and minister Count-Duke of Olivares fell from power,creating a vacuum that the queen hurried to fill, and her political influence notably increased after January 1643.

Even though the power she wielded was necessarily delegated by Philip IV, in times of political crisis, her role crucially influenced the Spanish government. While Olivares’s fall had facilitated her assuming this role, it was the queen’s extraordinary political skills and, in particular, her success in negotiating financial support and military maneuvers that proved she was equal to the task of governing in the king’s absence. The first time the queen had been given power were the years 1626 and 1632, when the king left Madrid to summon the Cortes or Parliaments of Aragon, Valencia, and Catalonia. 

In August 1627, the queen’s role took on greater importance, as the king became seriously ill, precipitating one of the most critical moments of his reign. Given what seemed to be the likelihood of his death, Philip wrote a will and testament according to which Elisabeth, who was pregnant at the time, would become regent until the unborn child, if a son, would reach majority. If a daughter, she was to marry her paternal uncle, the infante Carlos, and the couple would inherit the crown. The king recovered the first week of September.

The revolt of Catalonia, which began on June 7, 1640, was followed by the revolt of Portugal in December that same year. These unprecedented rebellions within the Iberian peninsula coincided with other armed conflicts through out Europe in which Spain participated. France had declared war on Spain just five years earlier, and since then, Philip IV had mentioned several times that he wished to go to the battlefront. News that Louis XIII had visited the French troops in March 1642 caused Philip to visit his as well. He departed from Madrid in April 1642, leaving Elisabeth and her son, Baltasar Carlos, in tears. In addition to her activities with the Junta de Gobierno, the queen attended council meetings and royal ceremonies in the company of Baltasar Carlos, who had just turned thirteen. Her actions as head of government served as an example to the young prince. The queen took charge of the government for nearly eight months, until the king returned in early December.

Elisabeth had two main concerns during her final year as governor: first, she had to find the monies to supply the armies fighting both the Catalonian rebels and the French; and second, she had to secure funds for the defense of the Portuguese border. In both cases she was assisted by Chumacero, the Council president, with whom she consulted daily. Thanks in part to her efforts, the army at long last achieved several victories in 1644. Philip and Elisabeth wrote to each other regarding government affairs, just as Charles V and Empress Isabel had done a century earlier. Elisabeth of France retained an active role in governance until September 1644, when the first symptoms of erysipelas, the disease that would eventually lead to her death, first appeared. A few days after his wife’s death, in a letter to the queen’s close friend, the Countess of Paredes, the king wrote,

“Countess, you may judge how I have reached this point; in one day I have lost my wife, my friend, my helper and counselor in all my labors. Surely I must be made of bronze, for I have not lost my mind or my life.”

Source:

Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez, Isabel de Borbón and the Governance of the Spanish Monarchy

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The mesdames calling madame de pompadour "maman-putain" is so funny to me. Do you have more random funny shot that they (including their brother) did.

Oh anon I was made for this

Dauphin called Madame de Pompadour I belieave "Madame Pompom"

Adelaide, when she was like 9 to 11, escaped to go "bring back the head of the English king like Judith and Holofernes", I believe she got as far as the stables, where a stablehand had a donkey waiting for her. The book I read this from, I can't remember it's name, said "That's the spirit! Here is a heroine with whom the Judith of Bethulia is only a pale moonlight." and honestly I love it

When Dauphin was a child one of his younger sisters- probably Adelaide given the fact that she was one of the few that he saw as a child -slipped a curse word and he gave her such a bad reprimand that she never forgot it and she started crying

Henriette, Adelaide, and Dauphin's wife, Marie Therese Raphaelle, had a little network trying to get rid of Madame de Pompadour, they were *so* into it, Henriette was the first to call her Maman Putain, and Adelaide and Raphaelle devoted themselves to intel. Adelaide was very young at the time and I imagine that was her first foray into politics

One of Adelaide's governesses when she was a teenager accidentally gave her erotica, although this might be false

When Adelaide and Victoire were on their last leg, living in Naples, they had a concert from the governer of the Count of Chastellux, who played the violin (shittily). It was so bad that Adelaide, who was a violinist so good that even the misogynistic men of the French court (Violin was considered a masculine instrument at the time) admitted she was good, took the violin, playing music. Unfortunately, despite the fun that Adelaide was having- which she sorely needed honestly considering this was after the French Revolution -Duchesse de Narbonne gave her a harsh rebuke because she was a Princess. Apparently, an artist named Goubaud, who I believe is Innocent-Louis Goubaud sketched the scene, but I don't believe we have it anymore.

After Louise went to her convent, Madame Campan, Victoire's lady in waiting, asked if Victoire would ever go to a convent. Victoire assured her that she wouldn't, and said, "Here’s the armchair that ruins me", pointing to the chair she was laying in.

Adelaide was called Madame Torchon by her family and friends, even her older sister Louise Elisabeth called her that in a letter. She called herself it in a letter to the Countesse de Civrac, who I believe at the time was Anne-Marie de La Faurie de Monbadan

If I have more I'll add them!

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Le Louvre

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Fragment of fabric from a dress said to have been worn by Madame Elisabeth on the day she was beheaded.

Source

I personally have SERIOUS doubts that this is actually what they say, as it's an extremely bright and cheerful patterned fabric, not to mention the fact that it's silk. Madame Elisabeth would likely have, as her sister in law Marie Antoinette did, gone to her death in one of the plain dresses she had left, not a multicoloured silk gown.

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Domaine de Montreuil

Versailles, France

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I WANT THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE ONE😫😫😫

Barbie Collector - Women of Royalty

Queen Elizabeth the First

Marie Antoinette

Sissi, the Empress

Joséphine de Beauharnais/Bonaparte

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Oil Painting, 1786, French.

By Élisabeth Vigée-LeBrun

Portraying the Marquise de Puysegur in a milkmaid costume.

Raclin Murphy Museum of Art.