Melusina

frenchhistory:

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Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Marie Élisabeth Louise; 16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842) was a French painter, and is recognized as the most important female painter of the 18th century. Her style is generally considered Rococo and shows interest in the subject of neoclassical painting.

a-l-ancien-regime:

Alexandra and Elena Pavlovna, by Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, ca. 1795-1797

vivelareine:

Marie Thérèse Charlotte de France, the first daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, was born on today, December 19th, in 1778.

fripperiesandfobs:

Court dress of Louisa Ulrika of Sweden ca. 1751
From the Royal Armory and Hallwyl Museum

vivelareine:

On December 18th, 1795, Marie Thérèse Charlotte was released from the Temple to be exchanged for French prisoners of war and sent to Vienna. She had spent the last three years in the tower of the Temple, and was not officially told of the fate of her mother, aunt and brother until August of 1795. She was the only member of the imprisoned royal family to survive the revolution.
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ornamentedbeing:

Alexander Roslin, Portrait of a French Lady

Busting Marie Antoinette Myths: 7 Things She Never Did

vivelareine:

Huffington Post - Busting Marie Antoinette Myths: 7 Things She Never Did

Marie Antoinette never said, “Let them eat cake.”
Marie Antoinette was not blond.
Marie Antoinette was not French.
Marie Antoinette’s passion for fashion didn’t bankrupt France.
Marie Antoinette never milked her own cows.
Marie Antoinette was not promiscuous.
Marie Antoinette was not the power behind the throne.

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vivelareine:

A portrait of the princesse de Lamballe in 1782 by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun

vivelareine:

from the testimony of Rosalie, a servant at the Conciergerie prison:
Her face was turned towards the window, and she was supporting her head with her hand. “Madame,” I said to her tremblingly, “you ate nothing yesterday evening, and hardly anything during the day. What would you like to have this morning?The Queen was weeping bitterly. She answered: “I shall never need anything again, my girl, everything is over for me.”

18thcenturylove:

Self-Portrait by Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1790

klg19:

Today in 1789, the working women of Paris, enraged by the price of bread, marched on Versailles. Joined en route by revolutionary reformers, the mob stormed the palace and gained access to Louis XVI himself to present their demands.
Women! Watch our strength.
This colored engraving is in the Bibliotheque nationale, Coll.des Estampes.

titam:

Mèche de cheveux de Louis-Charles de France, duc de Normandie, dauphin en 1789 (futur Louis XVII en 1793) (1785-1795)Lock of hair belonging to Louis-Charles de France, Louis XVII

rhoticity:

Queen Anne (pictured here in statue form outside St Paul’s) sure knew how to dress. That brocade! Those tassels! That velvet and ermine cloak! I want to steal it all.
Well, maybe not the fur. That’s gross.
But man, they were right about one thing. Her lace was something extraordinary.