Oh Louis, you are far too adorable.


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This quote's from Louis and Antoinette by Vincent Cronin. I loved it and had to share.

In obvious ways they were strikingly different: Louis beginning to put on weight, Antoinette slim; he steady, she quick; he reserved, she open; he with few close friends, she with many; he awkward, she majestic; he seeing the dark side, she the bright; he a keen ( Read more... )

It's been a while, so here's another imagey post. A lot of them are historical objects again, including one in particular that rather horrifies me. That and gives me horrible ideas about a post to torture Antonia with because I am evil.

( You've come to pay me a visit, how gallant you are... )

I realized I haven't been posting any quotes lately, and while this one isn't from a book I thought it was too adorable not to use.

In my last audience with Mme la dauphine, she deigned to confide in me a very interesting conversation she had had with M. le dauphin. They had been talking about how Mme la comtesse d’Artois would soon arrive and of ( Read more... )

Today is the day that, 218 years ago, Louis was executed by guillotine. This is his will, written on Christmas day, a little under a month before he was killed.

THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF LOUIS XVI., KING OF FRANCE.

In the name of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This day, twenty-fifth of December, one thousand seven hundred ( Read more... )

I've been re-reading so many of my Marie-Antoinette related books lately, I thought I'd start posting an interesting bit or quote from them every so often. I'll try for every day, but no guarantees.

This one comes from "Notorious Royal Marriages" by Leslie Carroll.

"Yet there were occasions when the King showed himself to be a true romantic -- even ( Read more... )