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certifiedcoffeeaddict · 5 months

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there are other ways this sentence could have been written but this is by far the funniest version

#thank you bell #napoleon: a concise biography by david a. bell #napoleonposting #napoleon bonaparte #louis xviii #certifiedhistoryaddict

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tiny-librarian · 4 months

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I commend to God my wife and my children, my sister, my aunts, my brothers, and all those who are attached to me by ties of blood, or by any other manner whatsoever. I pray God especially to cast the eyes of his mercy on my wife, my children, and my sister, who have suffered so long with me; to support them by his grace if they lose me, and for as long as they remain in this perishable world.

#louis xvi #marie antoinette #marie therese charlotte #louis xvii #madame elisabeth #madame victoire #madame adelaide #louis xviii #charles x #house of bourbon #french monarchy #long live the queue

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thesixthduke · 2 months

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Funeral Carriage of Louis XVIII.

Palace of Versailles.

#french #france #louis xviii #carriage #funeral #higginsandcole #history

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anneeeboleyn · 1 year

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when i say i am a history girl, i mean i am obsessed with sexy period dramas

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nesiacha · 2 months

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I never understood the term "reign" of terror . I mean Louis XVI reigned as king, Napoleon reigned as emperor (I would rather think of a term which is closer to military dictatorship, I also contest the term which qualified Napoleon as a "despot enlightened" but that's another story…), Louis XVIII, Charles X reigned as kings. In the case of the French revolutionaries in this period mentioned, these deputies are people elected by universal suffrage and there is no absolute power. In fact there is not a single deputy who could have absolute power. For example the Committee of Public Safety is subject to the Convention which decides by a majority vote whether it can be renewed or not.Laws must be passed by a majority of the Convention, etc... So there is not a reign of deputies. Even the historian Patrice Gueniffey, who is clearly not a supporter of revolutionaries from the Mountain, contests this story of absolute power.

I will one day do a more detailed post on this period on what I think of it...

#french revolution #Louis XVI #Louis XVIII #Charles X #Historian #history #Napoleon #reign of terror #Terror

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illustratus · 7 months

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Equerry with the Horse of Louis XVIII outside the Royal Stables (1819)

by Bernard-Édouard Swebach

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empirearchives · 2 months

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Heinrich Heine on Napoleon’s enemies

Buch Le Grand, Heinrich Heine, 1826

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elbereth-de-lioncourt · 2 months

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Louis XVII

Complete Story Book

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PDF here https://www.mediafire.com/file/r4ju9rqnqx787fy/KAMIJO-LOUIS_XVII-Complete_Story_Book.pdf/file

#KAMIJO #LOUIS XVIII

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nordleuchten · 1 year

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La Fayette and the Monarchy – a Summary

La Fayette’s relationship with the Monarchy, both in France and elsewhere in Europe, was often a rather strained one. While he was not opposed to the institution of the monarchy as such, he often found himself at odds with the ruling families. But regardless of the times and the relationship then existing between La Fayette and Europe’s crowned heads – there was almost always also a certain comedic or even ironical element to it.

So here is a little list of some of La Fayette “best moments”:

La Fayette insulted the future Louis XVIII (and angered his father-in-law in the process)

La Fayette on the future William IV (aka the “Royal Little Tar”)

La Fayette trying to apologize to Louis XVI after going against his direct orders not to sail to America

La Fayette at a dinner party with Lord Cornwallis, Frederick, Duke of York and Frederick the Great

La Fayette featured in rather explicit prints with Marie Antoinette

Queen Charlotte’s approval of La Fayette’s imprisonment

La Fayette’s descendant currently sits on the Belgian Throne

… to be continued

#marquis de lafayette #la fayette #french history #american history #american revolution #french revolution #marie antoinette #louis xvi #louis xviii #lord charles cornwallis #frederick duke of york #frederick the great #history #french monarchy #belgium monarchy #british royal family

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alioshakaramazov · 1 year

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"On waking up, Cosette had run to get her shoe. In it she had found the gold piece. It was not a Napoleon; it was one of those perfectly new twenty-franc pieces of the Restoration, on whose effigy the little Prussian queue had replaced the laurel wreath."

20 Francs Napoléon I. Years 1809-1814. Napoleon Bonaparte, laureate head left. x

20 Francs Louis XVIII. Years 1816-1824. Head of Louis XVIII turned right, the hair held by a band tied at the neck. x

#les mis letters #les misérables #lm 2.3.9 #i'm assuming the 'queue' here means ponytail #napoleon #louis xviii

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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The English certainly and fiercely pride themselves in never praising themselves.

- Wyndham Lewis,

In the Spring of 1814 Europe was, for the first time in living memory, not at war. The Emperor Napoleon was in exile and the Bourbon king, Louis XVIII was back on the throne of France. Wellington had, from 1809 to the termination of the Peninsular War in both Spain, Portugal and Southern France, defeated every Marshal of France that Napoleon had sent against him. Each of these great warriors; Massena, Victor, Ney, Jourdan, Marmont and Soult entered the Iberian Peninsula with past honours heaped upon them by their Emperor, Napoleon. Each returned with their military reputations in tatters. All beaten by Wellington.

It was therefore expected that they would give a somewhat cool reception to the Duke of Wellington when Louis XVIII invited him as guest of honour to a Ball in Paris. When Wellington arrived the Marshals of France whom he had so resoundingly beaten in previous campaigns turned their backs on him. A blushing Bourbon king apologised for their rudeness but the Great Duke just shrugged his shoulders and said ” Tis of no matter your Highness, I have seen their backs before!”

#wyndam lewis #quote #the english #wellington #duke of wellington #napoleonic war #england #france #war #history #character #louis XVIII #marshals of france #french army #british army #europe

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cliolina · 4 months

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Minerve entourée des muses de la Victoire, couronne le buste de Napoléon (1808) by François-Frédéric Lemot. In English: Miverna surronded by the muses of Victory crowns the bust of Napoleon. It is the pediment of the (beautiful) Louvres Colonnade.

Let's have a couple of close-up shall we?...

... bees, eagle: ok that fits the Napoleonic theme.

Ludovico Magno... so that would be Louis XIV... Wait what? That very much does not fit.

Did Minerva have too much hydromel and crowned the wrong monarch? Is it just Napoleon cosplaying the Sun king? Did Lemot got away with it because from the street honestly you can't tell and the whole thing looks rad? I mean: come on!

So how Napoleon ended up in a revival of the Grand Siecle on a public building? Well, he lost against the coalition. And the Count of Provence became king. And he was not thrilled by that sculpture. Wanted it gone from the colonnade.

In the end, what gave? Lack of money from the king? Laziness from the sculptors? A general sense of "why bother, you might be gone in a month anyway"? I don't know. But decision was made to just put a wig on him, carved Ludovico Magno and voila! It has been Louis XIV all along.

So in the end we have Minerva with her eagle/bees spangled shield crowning the bust of Louis the Great (who looks quite frankly pissed about all that). For some reasons, the king forgot about was fine with Empire symbolic staying there.

#Paris #Louvres #Napoleon #French empire #Louis XVIII #Lemot #Are you for real?

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tiny-librarian · 7 months

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Her body was thrown into a pit in the common cemetery, and covered with quicklime to insure its entire destruction. When, more than twenty years afterward, her brother-in-law was restored to the throne, and with pious affection desired to remove her remains and those of her husband to the time-honored resting-place of their royal ancestors at St. Denis, no remains of her who had once been the admiration of all beholders could be found beyond some fragments of clothing, and one or two bones, among which the faithful memory of Châteaubriand believed that he recognized the mouth whose sweet smile had been impressed on his memory since the day on which it acknowledged his loyalty on his first presentation, while still a boy, at Versailles.

The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France - Charles Duke Yonge

#marie antoinette #louis xvi #louis xviii #french monarchy #basilica of st denis #long live the queue

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lesmisscraper · 11 months

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Marble against Granite.

Clips from <Il cuore di Cosette>.

#Les miserables #les mis #My Post #Marius #Gillenormand #Grandfather and grandson #Louis XVIII #Mlle. Gillenormand #The Result of Treating a Child and his Father in a Wrong Way #By the way though Marble means Marius and Granite stands for Gilenormand?#The Brick #Il cuore di Cosette #Les Mis Letters

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resplendentoutfit · 7 months

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François Gérard (French,) • Louis XVIII (1755–1824), King of France • 1824 • Apsley House, London

Poor Louis:

Although gay dictionaries often include Louis XVIII, the king was certainly not "gay" nor even "homosexual" or "bisexual" in any conventional sense of these words. It is possible that he never had sex with anyone in his life.

- LGBTQ Archives

#françois gérard #portrait #art #painting #french artist #louis XVIII #the resplendent outfit #royal portraits #19th century art #french royalty

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philoursmars · 1 year

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Je reviens à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 55000 photos (nouveau compte approximatif. On se rapproche du présent !).

2016. Une journée à Paris....et ici, un crochet à Saint-Denis pour visiter la Basilique, qui est aussi la nécropole royale. Ici, on est dans la crypte.

- la chapelle des Bourbons, Louis XVIII

- le cœur de Louis XVII

- cénotaphe de Henri IV

- cénotaphe de Louis XIV

- le caveau des Bourbons

- les 2 dernières : la crypte primitive

#souvenirs #paris #saint-denis #basilique de saint -denis #nécropole #nécropole royale #rois de france #bourbons #louis XVIII #louis XVII #louis XIV #henri IV #crypte

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