#no love for Marie Louise

[napoleondidthat]

My assassination at Schonbrunn would have been less fatal than my marriage to Marie-Louise.

-Napoleon Bonaparte

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

“In a love relation, as Jung once put it, you risk everything. You put yourself on a table, you stop the power game and the trying to dominate or conquer the other person. If you succeed in really loving the other person, if you really relate, then all sorts of miracles happen. But in the beginning stages a general state of blindness possesses you, illusions or wrong expectations, disappointments, recriminations. You have to work through all that first. And that’s how you become more conscious. I didn’t say it is agreeable. So if you don’t love the other, you run away after a while.”

–Marie Louise Von Franz, Récréation: the wonderful story of Wolfgang Pauli, C.G. Jung and “the” woman

[Memphis Muse]

[taniatas]

[annemarieyeretzian]

ROCOCO ART 🎀 love, ur local art mom 🩵

disclaimers and more information under the cut ✂️

hi I’m annemarie and I’m an art historian! not adjuncting for the first time in five years was rly hard for me so I threw some slides together so I could still (sort of) teach the same material as my language of art class but a) I threw these slides together for instagram so space was/is limited and b) language of art is a ten week run through art history so I’m presenting only the most accessible information here – there’s so much more to this art period and to this artist! – please don’t expect it to be comprehensive and please do ask if you have any questions!

oh p.s. my first ever class of art history students came up with the name ‘art mom’ for me at the end of the quarter and yes it does make me cry if I think about it too long thanks so much for asking

[marianadecarlos]

Charles II and Marie Louise of Orleans Fanart

"She is the most beautiful of all" Charles II of Spain

The art depicts Charles II introducing his wife to his court and touring her around the Alcazar Real Palace.

I cried the first time I read their love story because it was sad and tragic. It was an affectionate and genuine relationship. Charles II loved his first wife and did everything he could to make her happy. Although Marie Louise did not feel the same way for Charles at first, she eventually fell for him. Despite the people and the Spanish court hating Marie Louise for not producing children, they had a loving relationship. She was exposed to rituals and medicines to cure her "infertility," but she began to weaken over time. One day, while horseback riding, she felt immense pain in her belly and fell ill. Sensing that death was near, confessors were summoned to save her soul. Charles was by her side, holding her hand. She leaned towards him and said, "Many women may be with His Majesty, but none will love him more than I do," before passing away.

[wondergirlofwhistlestop]

Fried Green Gay Tomatoes (1991)

[spacey-llama]

so like cheerleader gf and her werewolf bf and they murder people together and then makeout ❤️

[livelaughlovelams]

Me: yeah I'm mentally stable

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

[philav-mayne]

I'm finding Batman villains, that aren't popular or well-known and I'm starting to love them... Especially the Clock King

[hellish-cruelty]

Ada Limón on Grief

[simder-talia-blog]

Tonight’s double feature

[wondergirlofwhistlestop]

[gregor-samsung]

Il pleuvait des oiseaux [And the Birds Rained Down] (Louise Archambault, 2019)

[creaturefeaturecommando]

The fact that Croc kinda liked Baby Doll when she actually was acting like and adult and only got turned off of her when she started being Baby Doll full time and started forcing what was basically ageplay ddlg shit on him. The whole “Croccy-Woccy, Baby missed her precious !” And “Baby wanna come !” Tantrum and speaking like a baby obviously creeped him out. Should he have cheated on her and then tried to abandon slash kill her ? No. But she should have kept the toddler thing out of the relationship because he was even hesitant to show her affection when she started doing that shit and the reason why he didn’t strike her when he looked like he wanted to was because he saw a little kid because that’s what she was acting like.

All in all, Mary was the downfall of the relationship and they should have communicated boundaries.

[captainknell]

This letter caught my attention because it straight up says "I love you". I feel like all the letters weren't that straight forward. It's always like "I kiss you three times" or "tell me you are in good health" or some other way to imply love.

Napoleon's Letters to Marie Louise by Charles de la Ronciere

[bunniesandbeheadings]

Why couldn’t Marie Louise have been cooler. I feel like there’s an alternate universe where I loved her and I looked down on Josephine Stans like “don’t you know napoleon’s second wife was so much cooler and more amazing and awesome. You only know Josephine? How basic

I would’ve loved to be a hipster Marie Louise stan. I would still love to be a hipster Marie Louise Stan. But it was not to be.