OH big surprise, another image post from moi. I realize I have a problem, but I do not care.
( Oh documentaries...... )

So I found where the doll from the previous post of her with a ship on her head came from, and OMG did I hit the jackpot. The same artist also did the one in a previous post, of her with her two boys and Therese, based on the infamous Lebrun portrait.( There is a Provence doll in here...and he's super fat...and on crutches... )

Do I really need to explain this again? Here are some more pretty pictures, look at them and be amused!

( Lining up for the execution without knowing why... )

I was going to post this yesterday, but I got my book and squeeing over that won out. So here's the first part of another huge image search for me!
( Shes a little girl with nothing wrong, and she's all alone... )

So I got home this afternoon, and I found this in my mailbox.


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Another quote today, this one being from one of my absolute favourite fiction books about the Queen. This one is called "Abundance - A Novel of Marie Antoinette" and is written by Sena Jeter Naslund.

"Suddenly, the King stoops and picks a handful of cornflowers, to which he adds white Queen Anne's lace, and yellow-eyed daises, and lavender clover, ( Read more... )

Or "Another picture post to start off the year". I got a decent enough amount together that I thought I'd post them all. And what better way to start off the new year than with pretty pictures.

( Les images... )

Continuing the trend, here is a quote/passage from the very first book I can remember reading about Marie-Antoinette. It remains one of my favourites to this day, and I love to steal from it for RP purposes.

It's called "Marie-Antoinette, Princess of Versailles", and was written by Kathryn Lasky as part of the Royal Diaries Series. It's even in ( 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... )

Yeah so I decided to go on a hunt for pictures from the documentary I posted the one shot of earlier, and here's what I came up with. A lot of them are youtube screenshots, but that was the best I could do. I will probably trim the pictures later and replace them with better ones, but I'm feeling lazy right now.

And there's a few other movie ( Read more... )