#marquise de merteuil

[lady-arryn]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS costumes appreciation: 15/15 (costume design by James Acheson)

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Blue dresses Round 1- Group C: Caroline Penvenen, Poldark vs Isabelle de Merteuil, Dangerous liaisons (gifset)

Propaganda for Isabelle's dress (written by submitters):

This dress is a darker recreation of the famous dress worn by Madame de Pompadour in this portrait by François Boucher:

my god. this dress....this! dress! *incoherent screeching* THIS!!!!! DRESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

[morfyddclarkdaily]

Morfydd Clark Playing Cécile Volanges for National Theatre Live Scene from the play “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”

◼ Morfydd Daily

[lightofwintersun]

I can't help but see the parallels

When I came out into society, I was fifteen. I already knew that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. <..>. I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with. And in the end, I distilled everything to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.

[meerawrites]

Antagonist

@writeblrgarden

I do not talk about him a lot because the Marquise de Merteuil takes up so much room in the story and narrative and is such a driving force of manipulation and libertineism (affectionate and derogatory) and bisexuality-biromanticism, but, for your viewing pleasure, the Vicomte de Valmont, the notorious bi blackguard being the worst man on earth.

[historicalreusedcostumes]

This gown with flowers on is worn on Glenn Close as Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and many years later altred worn on an ekstra in a dream in Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight 2 (2021)

[brechtian]

marquise de merteuil would’ve done numbers at the bdsm club

[laufire]

Do you know, Vicomte, why I have never married again? It is not, assuredly, for lack of advantageous offers; it is solely in order that nobody should have the right to dictate my actions. It is not even that I was afraid of no longer being able to carry out my wishes, for I should always have ended by doing that; but that it would have been a burden to me that anyone should have had the right merely to complain of them; it is, in short, because I wished only to deceive for my pleasure, and not from necessity.

The Marquise de Merteuil to the Vicomte de Valmont Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Chordelos de Laclos.

[vidiadal]

— Your face looks familiar to me. Have we met before?

— No, this is the first time I've seen you.

— You have a mole under your left shoulder blade.

— Nothing will be hidden from your attentive gaze.

— Yes, I know you from head to toe.

— And how many do I have?

— Five. Ah, Madame de Merteuil, we definitely know each other.

— For me, all men in tuxedos with butterflies are the same.

— I was without them that time. I can take it off.

[dodger-chan]

Do you know, Vicomte, why I have never married again? It is not, assuredly, for lack of advantageous offers; it is solely in order that nobody should have the right to dictate my actions. It is not even that I was afraid of no longer being able to carry out my wishes, for I should always have ended by doing that; but that it would have been a burden to me that anyone should have had the right merely to complain of them; it is, in short, because I wished only to deceive for my pleasure, and not from necessity.

nobody should have the right to dictate my actions

I know she is evil, but she's also kind of a role model.

[notsodumbww2captain]

If you support women’s wrongs, you better believe in Marquise De Merteuil Supremacy.

[lady-arryn]

DANGEROUS LIAISONS costumes appreciation: 11/∞ (costume design by James Acheson)

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas dresses tournament: Blue dresses Round 2- Group C: Duchess d’Antan, Impromptu vs Isabelle de Merteuil, Dangerous liaisons (gifset)

Propaganda for Isabelle's dress (written by submitters):

This dress is a darker recreation of the famous dress worn by Madame de Pompadour in this portrait by François Boucher:

my god. this dress....this! dress! *incoherent screeching* THIS!!!!! DRESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

[tagarfa-art]

Repostober, day 2: Marquise de Merteuil from the novel written by Choderlos de Laclos “Les Liaisons Dangereuses”.

[vicarofsaintalbions]

Fun fact: Ben Daniels, aka Santiago in Interview with the Vampire season 2, played Vicomte de Valmont in the 2008 Broadway revival of Les Liaisons dangereuses (Dangerous Liaisons), opposite Laura Linney as Marquise de Merteuil! This was Ben’s Broadway debut and he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Play. It’s been years since Ben did a Broadway show (his last was in 2012. He was recently in the West End in 2023 for the play Medea.), and I hope he’ll be back. We better be buying tickets!!

P.S. Lestat and Santiago are like foils to one another, aren’t they?

Welcome back Vicomte de Valmont. Playboy who died for love (of a pure innocent soul…who wasn’t so innocent…sound familiar?)

[meerawrites]

Character intro: Marquise de Merteuil

Inspired by: in this case, the Glenn Close adaptation of our Marquise de Merteuil, with a dash of Kathryn Merteuil (Cruel Intentions).

Character summary: she/her, white-French, bisexual. The ultimate femme libertine and gaslighter, a bad person with at least understandable (or sympathetic) motivations. Though, not a vampire, be warned, she bites.

Fun Fact: I especially love Glenn Close’s adaptation of the Marquise, in the book, my source material I am extremely critical of her, though I understand her rage.

As genre commentary: I wanted to write a somewhat sympathetic antagonist, obviously I don’t condone her behaviour, but, she’s fascinating.