#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 The restrictive naming laws weren’t repealed until late in the 20th century.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”

[frevandrest]

Necessary questions one should be able to answer before they can (informedly) criticize the French revolution and/or Robespierre:

1. Why was Louis XVI executed?

2. What is the war of the First Coalition?

3. Most of the people who died in the French revolution were members of which social group?

4. What was the cause of death for most of the people who died in the French revolution? Was it guillotine?

5. Who is Joseph Fouché? Also: Who is Collot d'Herbois?

6. Who introduced the Terror and why? (Could also ask "what was the Terror" but that could be too tricky to answer).

7. (Bonus trick question) Who was the ruler of France during the Terror?

I don't even mean this sarcastically. I am totally cool with people criticizing frev (Robespierre, etc.) but some basic knowledge needs to be in place in order to do so.

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Henri de la Rochejaquelein by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

[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

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

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

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[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*

[mysebacielblog]

We’ve been waiting for years