#french aristocrat

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Louis de Boullogne II, Attributed (French, 1654-1733) Portrait du comte de Toulouse en costume de novice de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit (The Count of Toulouse in the habit of a novice of the Holy Spirit), 1693 Chantilly, musée Condé

[thewondermentofillustration]

Madame de Sevinge - Duc, voulez-vous que je, vous montre ma dix-septieme lettre? (Le Duc compte sur ses doigts doigts A, B, C, etc., et eccepts sans se faire prier).

Madame de Sevinge - Duke, would you like me to show you my seventeenth letter? (The Duke counts on his fingers A, B, C, etc., and accepts without being asked).      -- Lucien Métivet (1863-1932), Le Rire (The Laugh; French comic)

[abwwia]

Mathilde de Morny (26 May 1863 – 29 June 1944) was a French aristocrat and artist. via Wikipedia

[everybody-dies-at-least-once]

Begay Du Crime

french aristocrat (il/luj)

down with louis

[secretmellowblog]

One super funny thing about the French Rev (that Victor Hugo even references in Les Mis) is the way it altered naming conventions, resulting in tons of WILD amazing ridiculous names!

Basically what happened was— during the French Rev the laws around registering names were relaxed, so people started giving extremely revolutionary names to themselves and their babies.

Sadly Napoleon’s government later cracked down on this. When Napoleon came into power he passed a restrictive law mandating that people had to choose among a list of “normal” names, banning the weird revolution ones, because he was a spineless coward afraid of the power these names had. The restrictive naming laws weren’t repealed until late in the 20th century.

But anyway here are some of my favorite French Rev baby names (taken from this list):

Mort Aux Aristocrates -“Death to Aristocrats”

Amour Sacré de la Patrie l’an Trois -“Sacred Love of the Fatherland Year III”

Lagrenade —“The Grenade”

Droit de l’Homme Tricolor “Right of Man Tricolor”

Égalité — “Equality”

Régénérée Vigueur— “Regenerated Strength”

Marat, ami du peuple -“Marat, friend of the people”

Marat, défenseur de la Patrie—“Marat, defender of the Fatherland”

La Loi-“The Law”

Philippe Thomas Ve de bon coeur pour la République — “Philippe Thomas ‘Go with a good heart for the Republic’”

Raison —“Reason”

Simon Liberté ou la Mort —“Simon “Freedom or Death””

Citoyen Français—“French Citizen”

Sans Crainte— “Without Fear”

Unitée Impérissable— “Imperishable Unity”

Victoire Fédérative— “Federal Victory”

Vengeur Constant —“Constant Avenger”

[illustratus]

The Young Musician by Michel Garnier

[yourdailyqueer]

Armand de Gramont, Comte de Guiche (deceased)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

DOB: 25 November 1637

RIP: 29 November 1673

Ethnicity: White - French

Occupation: Nobleman, adventurer, veteran

Note: Known as one of the greatest playboys of the 17th century.

[lotus-pear]

consider...chuuya and navia hat swap!!

now THIS is a concept...

who would slay harder

[lyss-sketchbox]

Thinking about before fontaine dropped people who wrote wriolette fics or did fontaine world building in general HEAVILY leaned on how theres a french / british split in the nation and did game of thrones level world building

Whoever did this in ao3 i love you it is such an experience to read

[peachfruitcake]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Nicolas de Largillière (French, 1656-1746) Portrait of a Young Nobleman, ca.1714

[paleolithique]

feels like a betrayal when the weed makes the headache worse

[royalty-nobility]

The Duchess of Abrantes

Artist: Francisco Goya (Spanish, 1746–1828)

Title: Portrait of Manuela Téllez Girón y Pimentel (1794-1838)

Date: 1816

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

The Duchess of Abrantes

Doña Manuela Isidra Téllez-Girón y Alonso de Pimentel (1793-1838) was the youngest daughter of the Dukes of Osuna and sister of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz, also portrayed by Goya. In 1813 she married Don Ángel María de Carvajal y Fernández de Córdoba y Gonzaga (1793-1839), future VIII Duke of Abrantes (1816). Like the rest of her siblings, she received an enlightened education from her family and among her hobbies were music and singing, as Goya reveals in his portrait by means of the musical score. It was Goya's last portrait of an aristocratic lady, in this case paid for by the artist's mother, the Duchess of Osuna , who had been the artist's patron since the mid-1780s. The lady is dressed in the French fashion and is adorned with a crown of white roses, in keeping with the headdresses worn by Spanish ladies in that period. The technique, vibrant and rapid, still has echoes of the preciousness and colour of 18th-century portraits , although the dabs of light and black brushstrokes already foreshadow the artist's late style.

[kavalyera]

seeing bill skarsgård’s transformation for boy kills world is actually insane like you’re telling me this is the same mf that got dragged by a basement dweller and played two guys with mommy issues?? fr??

[galexiaxo]

[livelaughlovelams]

Me: yeah I'm mentally stable

Also me: *literally cries after thinking about the Princess de Lamballe for too long*