#monsieur philippe d'orléans

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Philippe I, Duke of Orléans. Circle of Pierre Mignard.

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[culturefrancaise]

Petit rappel que le frère de Louis XIV, Philippe d'Orléans, était très très gay, a passé sa vie avec son amant Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine (et d'autres favoris) malgré son premier mariage à sa cousine Henriette d'Angleterre et son deuxième mariage avec Elisabeth-Charlotte, princesse Palatine.

[thisisjustmefangirling]

on-screen lovers and off-screen besties is literally the best dynamic ever

[newsfromthehouseofbourbon]

January 7, 2024: Welcome to 2024!

Okay, I have been writing (and there is a LOT). However, I've had to deal with bedbugs for the past six months (and going). I have no time to go into the logistics (and the blame sits squarely on the shoulders of my stepsister), but I'm here to have some fun and tell you about what is going on with the HOB.

Without too much detail of the private conflicts that plagued this project since its creation upon the heels of the success of @tkwrtrilogy2, @tkwrtrilogy, and @tkwrtrilogy3, there has been an overhaul. Also, the latest addition to the trilogy will make its debut on Wattpad (but will come here eventually).

First, the OVERHAUL: Welcome to the HOB Universe.

You're asking yourself: WTF is this? Well, the best explanation of it can be seen here. All that applies is that this takes place in 17th-century France rather than Middle Earth.

I will be overhauling the Tumblr for @lesecretdelamaisondubourbon. There is a reason, but to find that out, you'll have to read the memoir about all of this (TBA). Either way, it comes on the heels of family drama and the death of a friendship that was supposed to last forever (according to her). But, the book (known by the title XIV) is going up on Wattpad, so while it is being overhauled over here, you can read it in its proper order over there.

XIV: The life and times of Louis XIV as told by Louis XIV--if you haven't figured that out yet. It is part of Book III; his father's story (@thesecretofthehouseofbourbonbook) is Book II.

Now, about that other book: The original title of the book (that was going to be written by my former co-author) was Monsieur. If you guess that the book was going to be about Philippe I, Duc d'Orléans (younger brother of Louis XIV), you were right.

If you think this is a retelling of centuries of rumor and innuendo, you would be wrong. This will be his story--told by Philippe. Under the title of Son of France (Fils de France in French), this is the story you were never told. After 383 years, it is time.

His story officially began in January of 2024, and he will be following his brother Louis here once he debuts on Wattpad. Stay tuned for more. He's part of the universe now.

[acrossthewavesoftime]

I really think this is genuinely a nice little love song, very catchy to boot, but the first verse always makes me chuckle because, well...

We could walk along the Seine Paris in the April rain Say the magic words "Je t'aime" Monsieur and Madame [...]

...I am picturing Philippe and Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans eyeing each other with disgust, he meaningfully flashing a hand with large rings on every finger putting a conventional knuckle-duster to shame while she, smiling, polishes a hunting rifle with the hem of her gown.

I know it's unintentional, but the phrase Monsieur and Madame, which, you know, is just what you'd address any couple made up of a man and a woman in French, has been completely and utterly tied to these two in my brain, which kind of ruins the mood of the song, albeit in a humorous way.

[christophe76460]

BIOGRAPHIE DE PIERRE DU MOULIN

Pierre Du Moulin, né le 16 octobre 1568 à Buhy et mort le 10 mars 1658 à Sedan, est un pasteur et théologien protestant français réputé pour son orthodoxie. Il est connu comme premier pasteur du temple de Charenton et tenant de l'Académie de Sedan l'espace d'une trentaine d'années (1621-1658).

Pierre est le fils de de Joachim Du Moulin, pasteur protestant, et le petit-fils de Charles Dumoulin, juriste de renom. Le 24 avril 1564, Joachim épousa en l'église d'Orléans, demoiselle Françoise Gabet, fille d'Innocent Gabet, juge pour le Roi, à Vienne en Dauphiné (qui sera tué par les catholiques peu après le massacre de la Saint-Barthélemy). De ce mariage sont issus quatre enfants : Esther, Joachim, Pierre et Éléazar.

Joachim du Moulin, avec ses deux enfants, Esther et Joachim, âgés de trois ans et de un an, et sa femme enceinte de Pierre, fuyait la persécution ; il avait été chassé de son église de Mouy. Après avoir erré de retraite en retraite, la famille arrive au château de Buhy, en Vexin. Monsieur de Buhi, protestant, frère de Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, lui offrit un asile. C'est dans ces circonstances que naquit Pierre du Moulin, le 16 octobre 1568.

En 1570, l'édit de Pacification permit à Joachim de réunir toute sa famille à Cœuvres, où était réfugiée l'église protestante de Soissons, chez Jean Ier d'Estrées ; église dont il était le pasteur. Après le massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy, Antoine d'Estrées, qui succédait à son père, change de religion et chasse ses anciens protégés.

Ils trouvèrent la protection du duc de Bouillon, alors Henri-Robert de La Marck, et arrivèrent à Sedan le 3 janvier 1573. La mère, Françoise, mourut peu après leur arrivée, le 13 février 1573. L'année suivante, Joachim du Moulin se remaria, avec Guillemette d'Avrigny « de la maison d'Anserville». De ce second mariage naquirent trois enfants : Marie, Jean et Daniel.

Quelque temps après il alla de nouveau servir l'église réformée de Soissons, installée alors Saint-Pierre-Aigle, laissant ses enfants à Sedan.

En 1584 Joachim du Moulin revint à Sedan pour s'y fixer. Pierre suivait les cours du collège, nouvellement fondé.

En 1588, fuyant les guerres de la Ligue, il s'échappa en Angleterre. Il y devint le précepteur du fils de la comtesse de Rutland, lequel étudiait à Cambridge. C'est ainsi qu'il suivit les cours du docteur Wittaker. Durant les vacances, il allait à Londres au contact de l'église réformée wallonne.

Il était installé depuis quatre ans en Angleterre lorsqu'il se résolut à rejoindre Leyde où son ami François du Jon professait la théologie. Il accepta un poste de conrecteur, sorte de maître-adjoint, au collège de Leyde. Peu après, il fut admis, sur concours, à l'âge de vingt-quatre ans, professeur à l'Académie de Leyde. Il resta dans cette charge cinq ans et trois mois.

En 1595, il publia sa première œuvre, qui eut de nombreuses rééditions : La Logique françoise.

À Leyde, il prend pension chez Joseph Juste Scaliger, où il rencontre des personnages distingués et de grand mérite et s'y fait de puissants amis. Durant son séjour à Leyde, il fréquente, Paul Trude Choart, duc de Buzenval, alors ambassadeur de France à La Haye.

En 1599, il revient à Paris, où on lui confie le soin d'accompagner, avec la fonction de chapelain, la princesse Catherine de Bourbon en Lorraine. Chaque année d'abord, puis, à partir de 1603, tous les deux ans, il faisait le même voyage, qui durait trois mois. C'est au cours de ce voyage, en 1599, qu'il rencontra à Vitry-le-François, Marie Colignon, « demoiselle de la Religion » ; il l'épouse à son retour en France.

Il s'installe ainsi, en 1599, à Grigny, comme pasteur, puis se déplace, vers 1603, dans la paroisse d'Ablon. Pierre Du Moulin fut le premier pasteur du temple de Charenton.

En août 1605, il est député à l'assemblée politique générale de l’Église réformée qui se tient à Châtellerault.

Il passe ainsi une quinzaine d'années de controverses, contre les catholiques, mais aussi contre certains réformés. Il est appelé en 1615 en Angleterre pour y travailler à une réunion des églises protestantes, et préside le synode d'Alès en 1620.

Dans cette année 1620, la situation politique se gâte pour les réformés. Pierre Du Moulin quitte alors la France pour Sedan où il arrive le 16 janvier 1621, pour quelque temps pensait-il ; il y resta 37 ans, jusqu'à sa mort.

Il sera l'une des personnalités les plus puissantes et les plus influentes de l'Académie de Sedan et le précepteur de Frédéric-Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne.

Vers 1638, il écrit Esclaircissement des controverses salmuriennes qui circulera neuf ans à l'état de manuscrit avant d'être imprimé ; il en permit la publication en 1647.

[famousinuniverse]

Anne of Austria (1601-1666) and her two children, the future Louis XIV, and Philippe, Cardinal Mazarin: Former Chief minister of France & François de Bourbon-Vendôme, son of César de Bourbon-Vendôme and Françoise de Lorraine, is a grandson of Henri IV. He is the first cousin of King Louis XIV. He remains single and dies without issue.

Louis XIV

King of France

Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign. 

Born: September 5, 1638, Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Died: September 1, 1715, Palace of Versailles, Versailles

Spouse: Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (m. 1683–1715), Maria Theresa of Spain (m. 1660–1683)

Children: Louis, Grand Dauphin, Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine, MORE

Grandchildren: Philip V of Spain, Louis, Duke of Burgundy, MORE

Parents: Louis XIII, Anne of Austria

Nicknames: Louis the Great, Sun King

Anne of Austria

Queen of Navarre

Anne of Austria was an infanta of Spain who became Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XIII from their marriage in 1615 until Louis XIII died in 1643. She was also Queen of Navarre until that kingdom was annexed into the French crown in 1620. 

Born: September 22, 1601, Valladolid, Spain

Died: January 20, 1666, Val-de-Grâce Hospital, Paris

Grandchildren: Louis, Grand Dauphin, MORE

Children: Louis XIV, Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

Spouse: Louis XIII (m. 1615–1643)

Siblings: Philip IV of Spain, Maria Anna of Spain

Parents: Philip III of Spain, Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain

Philippe I, Duke of Orléans

Brother of Louis XIV.

Monsieur Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, was the younger son of King Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His elder brother was the "Sun King", Louis XIV. Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans upon the death of his uncle Gaston in 1660. 

Born: September 21, 1640, Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye

Died: June 9, 1701, Parc St cloud, Saint-Cloud

Children: Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, Marie Louise d'Orléans, MORE

Great grandchildren: Louis XV, Marie Antoinette, MORE

Spouse: Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine (m. 1671–1701), Henrietta of England (m. 1661)

Siblings: Louis XIV

Grandchildren: Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, Louis, Duke of Orléans, MORE

Cardinal Mazarin

Former Chief minister of France

Jules Cardinal Mazarin, born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino or Mazarini, was an Italian cardinal, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. In 1654, he acquired the title Duke of Mayenne and in 1659 that of 1st Duke of Rethel and Nevers. 

Born: July 14, 1602, Pescina, Italy

Died: March 9, 1661, Vincennes

Nationality: French, Italian

Place of burial: Collège des Quatre-Nations, Paris

Full name: Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino

Siblings: Girolama Mazzarini, Michele Mazzarino

Organization founded: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture

François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort

Cousin of King Louis XIV

François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort was the son of César, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise de Lorraine. He was a prominent figure in the Fronde, and later went on to fight in the Mediterranean. 

Born: January 16, 1616, Coucy Castle, Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique

Died: June 25, 1669, Heraklion, Greece

Great-grandparents: Antoine of Navarre, Jeanne d'Albret, MORE

Grandparents: Henry IV of France, Gabrielle d'Estrées, MORE

Parents: César, Duke of Vendôme, Françoise of Lorraine, Duchess of Vendôme

Uncle: Louis XIII

Louis, Anne, Philippe, Mazarin, Beaufort, and most importantly, Pistache

[idealuk]

King Louis The Great (XIV)/François de La Rochefoucauld vs. Princess QUEEN ‘Liselotte’ Palatine and her husbands* - saving one of their lives, restoring the other’s sense of belonging, and defiantly securing her own - in “The Legacy”

Bonus:

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Philippe

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not allowed to use them in packs. don’t repost as your own

like/reblog is appreciated

© @aquamaen

[lussycordia]

[cpt-booty]

“Quid pro quo, Philippe.” *slurp*

More Versailles nonsense

[life-of-daydreams]

Men in hat 🖤

[roehenstart]

Louis-Philippe d'Orléans duc de Chartres (future King Louis-Philippe) in Reichenau. By Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Copy from an original by Couder, lost in 1848).

Without revealing his real identity for fear of being discovered during his exile in Switzerland in October 1793, Louis-Philippe got a job teaching geography, history, mathematics and modern languages at a boys' boarding school in Reichenau in Graubünden. His salary was 1400 francs and he worked under the name of Monsieur Chabos. There, he had a love affair with Marianne Banzori, the school cook, with whom he had a son...

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Considerations upon appointments

Louis XIV's brother Philippe, duc d'Orléans- known as Monsieur- was a major asset whom Louis shrank from deploying to full advantage. Philippe had captured Zutphen in 1672 and Bouchain in 1676, before winning a major victory at Cassel in 1677 and following it up with a successful conclusion to the siege of Saint-Omer. Louis was proud of his brother's achievements, even to the point of placing a vast canvas by van der Meulen of the battle of Cassel on the great staircase at Versailles, but he was also horrified at Monsieur's disregard for his own safety. He was henceforth confined to acting as Louis's deputy when they campaigned together, as in 1684 and 1691, though in 1693 he was entrusted with command in western France. Nevertheless, it would be a mistake to see this last appointment as an insult by an insecure elder brother, for in the Nine Years War Louis was consternated by the prospect of an Anglo-Dutch attack on the French coast. He could spare few regular troops for such an eventuality, but instead placed his trust in Monsieur. In the event of an invasion probably only Monsieur (or the king of the Dauphin themselves) could have mobilised the gentlemen of Normandy, Brittany and Poitou in sufficient numbers to make up a force capable of repulsing the Allies when backed by a handful of regular battalions and several regiments of milice. Based at Laval in Mayenne, from where he could rush to any part of the coast, Monsieur was a highly active commander who not only supervised military administration but also repaired major local highways. But his career was also governed by that of his older brother, and when the king retired from active campaigning so too, for precisely that reason, did Monsieur. Considering the duke was still in rude health, though aged fifty-three, with years of invaluable experience behind him, it was a dynastic decision which Louis could perhaps, at the time, ill afford to make.

Louis trusted Monsieur but he could not allow himself to be completely outshone by him. Yet when it came to the Condé Louis revealed all the submerged prickliness and insecurity of his character. Unsurprisingly, at first Louis was reluctant to place too much faith in the Grand Condé who had fought against him for eight years before 1659, and though Condé was more experienced in the Low Countries than Turenne he was not a commander in the first year of the War of Devolution. It would be an error, though, to assume that Condé was brushed aside owing primarily to royal paranoia. Contrary to what has been assumed, his exclusion from command in 1667 was not due to lingering royal resentment, but because, according to the Savoyard ambassador, the money he was owed by Spain, and which was enumerated in the treaty of the Pyrenees, was in arrears, and would be threatened by his participation in an active assault on the Spanish Netherlands. This money was considered necessary because of his likely candidature for the throne of Poland. Later that year, however, Condé was named as commander of the army of Germany, in part so that Turenne would realise he was not indispensable.

Guy Rowlands- The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701