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FAIRYTALE CASTLES IN FRANCE
1. Chateau de Chenonceau
This château is nicknamed the “Château des Dames” because King Henry II gave this castle to his mistress Diane de Poitiers. She commissioned the gorgeous bridge that many people find as the most beautiful thing about the castle.
2. Chateau de Chambord
Built as a hunting lodge for François I, Château de Chambord is one of the finest examples of the Renaissance architecture in France. Took over 30 years to build during the 16th century, it’s one of the most extravagant châteaux with elaborate rooftop of 800 sculpted columns and over 440 rooms and 85 staircases, making it the largest château in the Loire Valley.
3. Chateau d’Azay-le-Rideau
Built in the reign of King Francois I (where architecture and arts truly flourished during this Renaissance period), Chateau Azay-le-Rideau is a small and charmingly romantic castle with Italian style architecture. It is hard to believe that it was a defensive fortress in times past because of its beauty.
4. Chateau de Chaumont
The Chateau was built in the years between 1465 and 1510 by Charles I and Charles II d’Amboise. The Château de Chaumont was purchased by Catherine de Medici a year after Henry II’s death. There she entertained numerous astrologers, among them Nostradamus.
5. Chateau de Chantilly
The Chateau was originally built in around 1528 for the Constable Anne de Montmorency. This beautiful chateau is made up of two attached sections: the Grand Chateau and the Petit Chateau, but the Grand Chateau was destroyed during the French Revolution. It was later rebuilt.
6. Chateau de Pierrefonds
Originally built in the 12th century but rebuilt in the 14th century for Louis, Duke of Orléans. Napoléon Bonaparte visited it in 1850 and asked the father of modern restorations, Viollet-le-Duc to restore it to the point of even surpassing its previous grandeur.
7. Chateau d’Usse
The Chateau d’Ussé is where Charles Perrault the author of Sleeping Beauty (La Belle au Bois Dormant) was inspired to use this castle as Sleeping Beauty’s castle and later on in Disney.
8. Chateau de Villandry
For those who have a passion for gardens, then Chateau de Villandry has the most spectacular gardens! Completed in 1536, the chateau was built in a Renaissance style by Jean le Breton, one of François I’s Finance Ministers.
9. Chateau de Blois
Built between the 13th and 17th century, the chateau was the location where the Archbishop of Reims blessed Joan of Arc before her march on Orleans in 1429 and has also served as the residence of many French kings.
10. Chateau de Cheverny
Chateau de Cheverny was built the chateau between 1624 and 1630 by Philippe Hurault. Renowned for its exquisite interior which was renovated in 1768, the chateau holds a large collection of tapestries, furniture and artwork.
11. Chateau de Amboise
Dating back to the 11th century, this was taken by the French King Charles VII in the mid-15th century and became a royal palace. François I based his court here. Leonardo da Vinci came to the chateau and it became both his workplace and his home.
12. Chateau de Chinon
This massive chateau was built in the 12th century. It is known as the castle where Joan of Arc proclaimed that she heard heavenly voices and where she went to meet with the Charles VII, Dauphin of France who resided here from 1427 to 1450.
13. Chateau de Sully-sur-Loire
An imposing medieval fortress built in the 14th century, this castle was later on transformed into a residential chateau by the Duke of Sully. Voltaire sought shelter here in Château de Sully-sur-Loire during his exile from Paris. Today the castle hosts a classical music festival every year on June.
14. Chateau de Angers
This castle was first founded in the 9th century by the Counts of Anjou but its current colossal size was added sometime in the 13th century. Today, the castle has been converted to a museum which houses the oldest and biggest collection of medieval tapestries from all over the world.
15. Mont St. Michael
Mont St Michel, constructed during the 8th century, is located on a rocky island off the north coast of France in Normandy. When the monastery was first constructed, it was connected to the mainland by a land bridge that was covered completely by water during high tide and visible again at low tide.
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Heaven Gaia spring 2020 ready to wear
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The official government institution for preserving the French language is the Académie française and one of my hobbies is actually reading the updates on their website, it’s always so funny. Just lambasting new English loanwords and trying to shame people into using French terms instead. Some examples of their grumpily anglophobic entries:
“There is absolutely no reason to borrow the word backstage when we already have the perfectly suitable coulisses, although we understand your natural affection for the word stage which the British stole from us in the first place.”
“Why use rooftop instead of toit en terrasse? And if we absolutely must use a foreign word for this concept, let us at least borrow a term from a sunny Mediterranean country. Borrowing ‘rooftop bar’ from a nation famous for its abominable weather is absurd.”
their absolute outrage at any wine vocabulary being borrowed and distorted by wine barbarians (“please only use vintage to refer to porto”)
an entry explains that turning “to feel” into the ridiculous anglo-French verb “feeler” is tragic, “especially since ‘feeler’ is already an English noun that could refer to a snail’s ocular tentacles” and if we French don’t show respect for snail vocabulary who will??
My favourite entry:
“ASAP: This abbreviation, which is far from transparent, seems to accrue most of the vices of a language that conceals its contemptuous and comminatory character under the rags of a spurious modernity”
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Added more!
Wee Wee Wee! セ-17a
OSN mini- 200Y
the bunny boys OSN- 300Y
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Futon Therapy- 400Y
（アサフラ【フ24b】/ギルアサ【ヒ49b】
alsoooo I think this might be a novel in which case i wouldnt be able to read it, but on the off-chance this magical strike R-18 book is actually comics id like to add it as well >3> 1000Y
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=75689166
Hello!! Bonjour 💖 wishlist!
Thank you again!! <3
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https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=75621575
cloche de marriage 2000Y
pamphlet 400Y
calendar and frame 600Y -plus frame cost?
B- post card case 800Y
D- memo pad 300Y
E- the blue and pink ones 400Y
i have no idea what this is or if its for sale but i love it? the tweets translation makes me think its for the circle members only but im including it just in case im wrong
https://twitter.com/ukxfrx2/status/1141637428421091328
Sakunosuke -not sure what table
i have no idea if theyd have any of these since its from an older event but definitely a yes if they do have them please!
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Hobby Hobby
Enchante- 500Y
the bottles one- 600Y
cardverse FrUS- 600Y
Top Secret- 600Y
also i saw they made a magical strike book?? its not on here so i suspect they wont have it but if they do, also that one please!
■西２ホール セ38a Fiz&Rgb
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=75666302
Metamorphose- 1000Y
Nassau- 500Y
Natural Slowly Platonic (if they have any, its not on their event promo) 500Y
からふ 🔔フ30b
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=70251193
No more time thief- 400Y
二号／もなか フ30a
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=75490287
Early Morning Tea- 400Y
plus if you see any super sweet magical strike merch im down for a little bit more! you know the good stuff so i trust your taste ✨
OH double plus this artist that sometimes draws my rare rarepair of turkey and france is there, so if they happen to have any merch of those two together at their table id love to have something?? 壱◯屋@フ31a
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Hello!! Bonjour 💖 wishlist!
Thank you again!! <3
【セ36ab】
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=75621575
cloche de marriage 2000Y
pamphlet 400Y
calendar and frame 600Y -plus frame cost?
B- post card case 800Y
D- memo pad 300Y
E- the blue and pink ones 400Y
i have no idea what this is or if its for sale but i love it? the tweets translation makes me think its for the circle members only but im including it just in case im wrong
https://twitter.com/ukxfrx2/status/1141637428421091328
Sakunosuke -not sure what table
i have no idea if theyd have any of these since its from an older event but definitely a yes if they do have them please!
ヒ17b
Hobby Hobby
Enchante- 500Y
the bottles one- 600Y
cardverse FrUS- 600Y
Top Secret- 600Y
also i saw they made a magical strike book?? its not on here so i suspect they wont have it but if they do, also that one please!
■西２ホール セ38a Fiz&Rgb
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=75666302
Metamorphose- 1000Y
Nassau- 500Y
Natural Slowly Platonic (if they have any, its not on their event promo) 500Y
からふ 🔔フ30b
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=70251193
No more time thief- 400Y
二号／もなか フ30a
https://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=75490287
Early Morning Tea- 400Y
plus if you see any super sweet magical strike merch im down for a little bit more! you know the good stuff so i trust your taste ✨
OH double plus this artist that sometimes draws my rare rarepair of turkey and france is there, so if they happen to have any merch of those two together at their table id love to have something?? 壱◯屋@フ31a
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These rare color photos of Paris were taken over 100 years ago.
In 1909, a wealthy French banker named Albert Kahn wanted to document the world using a new color photo process called Autochrome Lumière, so he commissioned 4 photographers to take their cameras all over the world.
One of the cities they documented was Paris.
Starting in 1914, Kahn’s photographers, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier and Auguste Leon, documented life in Paris using color filters made from dyed potato starch grains.
They made these color photos over a century ago (with a small amount of color enhancing done on the original shots).
In addition to the many shots of Paris, around 72,000 Autochromes from around the globe were created through Kahn’s project.
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Random fact: In 1928 a visionary Russian poet Vladimir Mayakovsky visited Paris for the first time and wrote a poem about the slutty, slutty time he had there, ending with:
“My dick, like a mythical tale,
Has been passed from mouth to mouth.”
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ERA AESTHETICS
↳ Rococo or Late Baroque, France. 1700 - 1799
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mood: coming home to your apartment in Paris that you bought yourself with white walls, gold detailing, tall windows, flowing curtains, and a chandelier hanging from the ceiling; your cat laying on the pink silk sheets you bought with your work bonus; and a bathroom with a clawfoot tub, fluffy mauve towels, and floral-scented skincare atop your marble sink counter
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