http://www.stenay.com/
lørdag den 22. december 2012
søndag den 18. november 2012
The Mystery Stone
THE MYSTERIOUS STONE OF
STENAY
Saint-Dagobert II crypt of Stenay shows us a mysterious stone, restored by Gino Frua, member of the Cercle. Here's what says Abbé Vigneron in his "histoire de Stenay":
Saint-Dagobert II crypt of Stenay shows us a mysterious stone, restored by Gino Frua, member of the Cercle. Here's what says Abbé Vigneron in his "histoire de Stenay":
THE MYSTERIOUS STONE:
The SATOR square Documents taken from "Histoire de Stenay" by the Abbé Vigneron .
CLANDESTINE CHRISTIANS AT
STENAY
It seems us this mysterious rock can be explained as a Christian's gesture at a time when there was only a small number of Christians at Stenay.
It seems us this mysterious rock can be explained as a Christian's gesture at a time when there was only a small number of Christians at Stenay.
For explaining it, it must be
recalled all the carved stones found at Stenay were found in the foundations of
St-Rémi basilica, prior to St-Dagobert church that replaced it in the 9th
century.
These stones, reemployed in the foundations, were funerary stelae: the one of which we talk is also a stela but of a particular kind. Mr Plantard, working on the history of Stenay, studied this stela: he considers the letters engraved left and the herringbone pattern traced right of these letters were a "key" able to allow the initiates to refer to the famous `Sator Square'.
That's why opposite we reproduce
this well known Sator square. Our drawing of the square has voluntarily
increased some letters to help the explanation of M. Plantard to be understood:
these letters SRNPR, put back to their place in the square, exactly describe
the herringbone pattern engraved on our stone. M. Plantard so has well found
the key explaining the mysterious letters of the stela of Stenay.
MEANING OF THE SQUARE
The sator square contains 5 words that can be read in all directions: SATOR, AREPO, TENET, OPERA, ROTAS. The pagans who used the square before the Christians, placed the word ROTAS in the beginning, in lieu of the word SATOR (so at Pompeii). This inversion of two words doesn't change the meaning :
The creator (SATOR), past AREPO, that only makes sense the other way, holds (TENET) with care (OPERA) the wheels (ROTAS). Otherwise said: Who has made, who has `sown' (life, the man, the world) oversees, carefully directs its proceeding. And for the Christians: the Creator of the man has also created Providence.
MEANING OF THE STONE OF STENAY
The occultism of this stela presumes it has been engraved at a time when Christians couldn't show themselves openly: we would readily date it to the late 5th century or the early 6th, era when an upsurge of pagan zeal is expressed, as reaction, after the conversion of Clovis in 496.
Unfortunately the said stone
of Stenay is no more at Stenay. It would have been deposited about 1910 by M.
Rivart at Mgr Mangin, curate of Stenay, then dwelling at the Market square. M
Mangin, died in 1914, didn't witness the removal of this stone in 1917 by the
famous Kronprinz who would have it broken declaring (curiously) he was the
"Master of the Cross). So it has disappeared (once an interesting monument
for History).
C.Vigneron
Stenay and the Devil Stone
TO THE SOURCES OF THE
MYTH
In fact the myth will take shape in 1973 with the publication by Gérard de Sède of a `sensationally' entitled work, La Race Fabuleuse, extra- terrestres et mythologie mérovingienne (éditions J’ai Lu, collection l'Aventure Mystérieuse). De Sède is a well-known creator of legends, already holding sway over Gisors and its treasure as well as Rennes-le-Château and the secret of abbé Saunière. This time he relapses to explain us, substantially, the Merovingian dynasty was… of extra-terrestrial origin… And makes, within his demonstration, a great detour by Stenay. Let's try to resume the marking points of the work while specifying the author's source is largely speculative as resting on a series of interviews with a mysterious Marquis de B. whose identity will not be revealed to us…[2]
In fact the myth will take shape in 1973 with the publication by Gérard de Sède of a `sensationally' entitled work, La Race Fabuleuse, extra- terrestres et mythologie mérovingienne (éditions J’ai Lu, collection l'Aventure Mystérieuse). De Sède is a well-known creator of legends, already holding sway over Gisors and its treasure as well as Rennes-le-Château and the secret of abbé Saunière. This time he relapses to explain us, substantially, the Merovingian dynasty was… of extra-terrestrial origin… And makes, within his demonstration, a great detour by Stenay. Let's try to resume the marking points of the work while specifying the author's source is largely speculative as resting on a series of interviews with a mysterious Marquis de B. whose identity will not be revealed to us…[2]
- On the town's blazon there
appears the demon's grimacing and horned face, a figure however never utilized
in heraldry… After local investigation, study of the works of an 19th-century
archaeologist, a certain Jeantin, and talks to the Marquis de B., de Sède
reaches the conclusion Stenay is formerly called Shatan, then Shatenay.
lørdag den 13. oktober 2012
søndag den 7. oktober 2012
Research for the short introduction to Montmedy
This is research for the short story I am doing on Montmedy. If you read it via our webpage - please leave comment as I would like to hear what you think.
lørdag den 6. oktober 2012
Orval - Mystery, Treasure and Nostradamus
The Legend
of Orval
One day la Gran Contessa ("the Great Countess") or Countess Matilda of Canossa was visiting a small
chapel near the forests of Orval.
She was a woman under a continued pressure as the
deaths of both her mother and
husband in 1076, had left her in sole control of her great Italian patrimony as
well as lands in Lorraine. On the behalf of the Pope himself she was fighting
the German King Henry IV who would sort to conquer Matildas throne. Legend says
that she stopped at the fountain and somehow her wedding- ring accidentally fell into the fountain. Eventhought she had been
estranged from her late husband (her
stepbrother Godfrey the Hunchback) She was in great distress at her loss of the
ring. She
prayed to the Lord for the return of the ring and at once a trout rose to the surface of the water with the precious ring in its mouth. Matilda
exclaimed: "Truly this place is a Val d'Or (Golden
Valley)", from which the name "Orval" is derived, and in
gratitude she made available the funds for the foundation of the monastery and
to this day the spring still supplies water to the monastery and its brewery.
Let all guests that come be received like Christ, for
he will say,
"I was a stranger and you took me in."
"I was a stranger and you took me in."
In 1070 a group of Benedictine monks
from Calabria settled in Orval, at the invitation of Count Arnould de
Chiny, lord of the manor, who welcomed them and granted them land from his own
domain. Construction immediately begun of the church and a
monastery, but after some forty years, possibly because of the death of Count
Arnould, the monks moved away again. They were replaced by a community of Canons Regular,
who completed the construction work: the abbey church was consecrated on 30
September 1124 by Henri de Winton, Bishop
of Verdun. Soon afterwards, however, the Canons ran into economic difficulties,
a situation which led them to request affiliation to the Order of Cîteaux, at
that time in full expansion. Their request was transmitted to Saint Bernard who
accepted it. He entrusted the re-establishment of Orval to the eldest of his
daughter-houses, the Abbey of Trois-Fontaines in Champagne. On the 9th March
1132, seven monks under the leadership of Constantin arrived at Orval from
Trois-Fontaines. Monks and Canons formed one single community and began at once
on the adaptation of the buildings to Cistercian usages. The new
church was completed before 1200.
For
five centuries, Orval led a hidden life, like so many other monasteries of the
Order. During the 12th Century, the abbey seems to have been prosperous ; from
the middle of the following century, calamities were often to be its lot for
long periods. In 1252 the abbey was gutted by fire and the consequences weighed
on the community for almost a century. Certain buildings had to be entirely
reconstructed. Around 1252, the monastery was destroyed by a fire;
the rebuilding took around 100 years. So
serious was the state of misery that for a time the authorities of the Order
went so far as to envisage the suppression of the monastery.
During the 15th and 16th
centuries, the various wars between France
and various neighbouring regions (Burgundy,
Spain)
had an important impact on Orval. At one stage a foundry was established on the
site. In 1637, during the Thirty Years' War, the abbey was pillaged and
burnt by French mercenaries. In the 17th century, the abbey converted to the Trappist
branch of the Cistercian order, but reverted back to the Rule of the main order
in around 1785.
lørdag den 29. september 2012
Forum for Marie Antoinette
I am wondering if the "Revolutionary Inventory List" is impossible to find online. Perhaps in forums there might be an answer.
http://forum.marie-antoinette.org/
http://forum.marie-antoinette.org/
søndag den 23. september 2012
lørdag den 22. september 2012
the Order of the holy Cross
France : The Order of the Holy Spirit In 1578, Henry III created a decoration, la Medaille de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit (Medal of the Order of the Holy Spirit), to unite the most important leaders of the Catholic party against the Protestants. When Louis XIV came to power, the medal was worn as a Malta cross on a light blue ribbon (un cordon bleu). Even though the original order disappeared after the French Revolution, for the next two hundred years the honor remained one of the highest accolades in the French aristocracy. It was also the forerunner of the French Legion of Honor !
Notes for the book
qui Ces détails et ces souvenirs intéressant la fuite de la famille royale à Varennes ne se rencontrent nulle part Si nous consultons les historiens nous voyons cet événement arriver à sa date brièvement raconté rester confondu avec les autres faits généraux qui se sont succédé pendant cette longue et laborieuse transition d une ère nouvelle privé de ses circonstances les plus saissantes et perdre ainsi le caractère principal la condition essentielle de son existence
Monastery of Valory and all other who participated more or less actively in the event that was called after the removal royal family was made on 16 July
Fiction unfortunate that did not solve the issue that she pretended to solve far from it tended to show personal weakness of the King and Queen to carry out the responsibility of both business and in the near future should suffer fatal results of these terms means that no party could be satisfied
Investigating the causes of the many errors and contradictions in the stories that recognized the predecessors and especially in memory of Mr. Bouille and Choiseul Stainville where all defend themselves by charges of incompetence and respective negligent and let go to reach mutually responsible the failure of the company reproaches
Eugene
- The details that these memories and interesting flight of the royal family at Varennes never meet anywhere If we consult the historians we see this event reach its date briefly recounted remain confused with other general facts that have succeeded during this long and laborious transition of a new era deprived of its most circumstances saissantes and lose the main character the essential condition of its existence.
- we shall confine ourselves to the Board of Montaigne
- If abdicated Art saw the King went out of the kingdom ny not return after the invitation which will be made by the legislative body and the period to be fixed by proclamation which shall not be less than two months shall be deemed to have abdicated the kingdom See M about History of the Revolution
fredag den 21. september 2012
torsdag den 20. september 2012
From http://www.bestphotosite.net/a-statue-of-genghis-khan
A statue of Genghis Khan
According to legend, it is here that Genghis Khan, who became the Great Khan, who conquered half the world, overcoming childhood difficulties after the death of his father, found a stick on the way from Toril Khan, whom he asked for help when Mergid kidnapped his wife in 117 year.
For the Mongols, to find a whip - a good sign.
Thus, finding a whip, Genghis Khan saw this opened the way to the great, and they took possession of greed.
The statue is covered with 250 tons of stainless steel and symbolically points to the south - to China.
The statue was designed by sculptor D. Erdembileg, and raised its architect, John Enkyargal in 2008.
The cost of the statue - 4.1 million dollars.
As for the French Eiffel Tower, the Statue of Liberty to the Americans, the Chinese Great Wall and the Taj Mahal for the Indians, and a statue of Genghis Khan has become a symbol that could be proud of all of Mongolia.
Mongolians are hoping that this complex will help them to improve the tourism industry.
From Google stream Kublai
In 1259, the great Mongol Empire — which stretched from parts of China west to Russia — was shaken for the second time by the death of its leader, or khan, when Möngke, a grandson of the founder Genghis Khan, died. One of his brothers, Kublai, left his army in China, came back to Mongolia, and had himself declared the Great Khan.
When he took the throne, Kublai was in his forties. He was the fourth son of the fourth son of Genghis and had only about a decade’s experience in military and political leadership. But he proved his worth and justified the name given him by Mongols, Setsen Khan, or “the Wise Khan.”
Shortly after taking the throne, Kublai returned to his efforts to complete the Mongol conquest of China. The Mongols’ superb cavalry had easily overrun other lands across Central Asia, but that type of force was less effective in river-crossed and highly-urbanized China. Following the advice of Chinese advisors, Kublai built a fleet that navigated the rivers and made it possible to defeat the towns. By 1279, he was fully in control of China.
Ironically, Kublai’s focus on China cost him control of the larger empire. During the conquest of China, regional leaders in the western parts of the Mongol Empire broke away, creating rival states.
The Great Khan was probably quite content with China and Mongolia, however. In 1264, he moved his capital from Karakorum to Beijing, making it the capital of China for the first time. That capital was magnificent — as attested to by Venetian merchant Marco Polo, who reached it a few years later. Polo called the Khan’s palace “so vast, so rich, and so beautiful, that no man on earth could design anything superior to it.”
Kublai ruled until his death in 1294. While his rule was a time of prosperity for China, his Yuan dynasty he founded lasted less than a hundred years. http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/kublai-khan-becomes-mongol-emperor/
When he took the throne, Kublai was in his forties. He was the fourth son of the fourth son of Genghis and had only about a decade’s experience in military and political leadership. But he proved his worth and justified the name given him by Mongols, Setsen Khan, or “the Wise Khan.”
Shortly after taking the throne, Kublai returned to his efforts to complete the Mongol conquest of China. The Mongols’ superb cavalry had easily overrun other lands across Central Asia, but that type of force was less effective in river-crossed and highly-urbanized China. Following the advice of Chinese advisors, Kublai built a fleet that navigated the rivers and made it possible to defeat the towns. By 1279, he was fully in control of China.
Ironically, Kublai’s focus on China cost him control of the larger empire. During the conquest of China, regional leaders in the western parts of the Mongol Empire broke away, creating rival states.
The Great Khan was probably quite content with China and Mongolia, however. In 1264, he moved his capital from Karakorum to Beijing, making it the capital of China for the first time. That capital was magnificent — as attested to by Venetian merchant Marco Polo, who reached it a few years later. Polo called the Khan’s palace “so vast, so rich, and so beautiful, that no man on earth could design anything superior to it.”
Kublai ruled until his death in 1294. While his rule was a time of prosperity for China, his Yuan dynasty he founded lasted less than a hundred years. http://blog.oup.com/2012/05/kublai-khan-becomes-mongol-emperor/
Found during the research on Kublai and Genghis
New Kublai and Genghis webpage under contruction at http://hjertebager.wix.com/thehistorictraveler#!home/mainPage
onsdag den 19. september 2012
More Secret Correspondence
I think you already said that Mr. King magnet to bed later than eleven Queen magnet instead to ensure up to an hour or two the difference in taste amenoit small frequent quarrels between the spouses which King obviated by room apart You inférerez without penalty arrangement that Mr. Queen has her freedom his enemies beautiful game to say that she abused and all ways May I say once again the visit of the Emperor change these unfortunate circumstances we are very curious to see if madame Elisabeth is very kind enough to please the prince to determine the marriage which he seemed to have abandoned Queen boasts that his project will succeed in this regard If the Emperor observe strict s incognito that it is prescribed for here I find very clever
find well skillful January 10 I told you that the enemies of our Queen dare say his friends push these evils by saying that the king gave him gallantly to étrennes a ship while skilfully worked the way money only cost thirty thousand books and the monarch took his reward in this very sweet last night with his wife s a priest appeared before the King by bending the knees and presented a paper whose purpose was to show a way to have children were ordered to the alleged physicist that n is probably a kind of crazy to vacate
lies in the presence of my King divine laws laws King of Heaven human kings of the earth they respect nothing Racine Corneille Voltaire Rousseau were appointed by the fanatical preacher and declared worthy of the last punishments King seemed little built but he said with moderation ordinary k II must nevertheless let him do his job but what will surprise you is that c princes and princesses of his family cheered means and maxims
The Queen applauded means recently sent request M Necker order to reach the royal treasury one hundred and fifty thousand pounds in cash which she had an urgent need for the Director wrote to the Queen very respectfully The state treasury does not allow me to give absolutely point your Majesty's request but my fortune enables him to offer him the same amount of my purse and I will have the honor of wearing it tonight He kept his word the Queen received the miracle took the money without counting and goes everywhere it called Necker M is a charming man I have never seen such a minister he is the as yet but he might become in spite of prejudice and even more disgusted that M Taboureau everything happens nothing better than to leave the field open to Y charming man the edict of the Lombard facility is hooked by people interested in what he has not held n the cash discount is a kind of favor
find well skillful January 10 I told you that the enemies of our Queen dare say his friends push these evils by saying that the king gave him gallantly to étrennes a ship while skilfully worked the way money only cost thirty thousand books and the monarch took his reward in this very sweet last night with his wife s a priest appeared before the King by bending the knees and presented a paper whose purpose was to show a way to have children were ordered to the alleged physicist that n is probably a kind of crazy to vacate
lies in the presence of my King divine laws laws King of Heaven human kings of the earth they respect nothing Racine Corneille Voltaire Rousseau were appointed by the fanatical preacher and declared worthy of the last punishments King seemed little built but he said with moderation ordinary k II must nevertheless let him do his job but what will surprise you is that c princes and princesses of his family cheered means and maxims
The Queen applauded means recently sent request M Necker order to reach the royal treasury one hundred and fifty thousand pounds in cash which she had an urgent need for the Director wrote to the Queen very respectfully The state treasury does not allow me to give absolutely point your Majesty's request but my fortune enables him to offer him the same amount of my purse and I will have the honor of wearing it tonight He kept his word the Queen received the miracle took the money without counting and goes everywhere it called Necker M is a charming man I have never seen such a minister he is the as yet but he might become in spite of prejudice and even more disgusted that M Taboureau everything happens nothing better than to leave the field open to Y charming man the edict of the Lombard facility is hooked by people interested in what he has not held n the cash discount is a kind of favor
The Library -Siren School (l'Ecole Sirene)
Much of Louis XVI’s contributions to Versailles were largely dictated by the unfinished projects left to him by his grandfather. Shortly after his ascension, Louis XVI ordered a complete replanting of the gardens with the intention of transforming the jardins français to an English-style garden, which had become popular during the late 18th century (Verlet, 1985). In the palace, the library and the salon des jeux in the petit appartement du roi and the decoration of the petit appartement de la reine for Marie-Antoinette are among the finest examples of the style Louis XVI[source: Wikipedia]
image: the Library
The Chapel
[source: Wikipedia]
image: Altar of the chapel of Versailles; the very spot where Marie Antoinette married Louis XVI.
As they did when Louis XVI was king...
Château de Versailles, Lundi, jour de fermeture, jardins, tournage d'un documentaire sur le premier vol de montgolfière à Versailles en 1783 devant Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette.Palace of Versailles, Monday, closing day, gardens, shooting of a documentary film about the first flight of an airballoon in Versailles in 1783, in front of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.
© EPV/ Christian Milet
From the Google stream
Think always of me
A last letter from Marie Antoinette - capturing the innocence and sweetness of her soul.
In the early hours of October 16th, 1793, nine months after the execution of her husband, Louis XVI, the 37-year-old former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, wrote the following tear-stained farewell letter to her sister-in-law, Madame Elisabeth, and her children. Just eight hours later, Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
Her letter never reached Elisabeth.
English translation of her letter:
16th October, 4.30 A.M.
It is to you, my sister, that I write for the last time. I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, for such is only for criminals, but to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent like him, I hope to show the same firmness in my last moments. I am calm, as one is when one's conscience reproaches one with nothing. I feel profound sorrow in leaving my poor children: you know that I only lived for them and for you, my good and tender sister. You who out of love have sacrificed everything to be with us, in what a position do I leave you! I have learned from the proceedings at my trial that my daughter was separated from you. Alas! poor child; I do not venture to write to her; she would not receive my letter. I do not even know whether this will reach you. Do you receive my blessing for both of them. I hope that one day when they are older they may be able to rejoin you, and to enjoy to the full your tender care. Let them both think of the lesson which I have never ceased to impress upon them, that the principles and the exact performance of their duties are the chief foundation of life; and then mutual affection and confidence in one another will constitute its happiness. Let my daughter feel that at her age she ought always to aid her brother by the advice which her greater experience and her affection may inspire her to give him. And let my son in his turn render to his sister all the care and all the services which affection can inspire. Let them, in short, both feel that, in whatever positions they may be placed, they will never be truly happy but through their union. Let them follow our example. In our own misfortunes how much comfort has our affection for one another afforded us! And, in times of happiness, we have enjoyed that doubly from being able to share it with a friend; and where can one find friends more tender and more united than in one's own family? Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.
I have to speak to you of one thing which is very painful to my heart, I know how much pain the child must have caused you. Forgive him, my dear sister; think of his age, and how easy it is to make a child say whatever one wishes, especially when he does not understand it. It will come to pass one day, I hope, that he will better feel the value of your kindness and of your tender affection for both of them. It remains to confide to you my last thoughts. I should have wished to write them at the beginning of my trial; but, besides that they did not leave me any means of writing, events have passed so rapidly that I really have not had time.
I die in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed. Having no spiritual consolation to look for, not even knowing whether there are still in this place any priests of that religion (and indeed the place where I am would expose them to too much danger if they were to enter it but once), I sincerely implore pardon of God for all the faults which I may have committed during my life. I trust that, in His goodness, He will mercifully accept my last prayers, as well as those which I have for a long time addressed to Him, to receive my soul into His mercy. I beg pardon of all whom I know, and especially of you, my sister, for all the vexations which, without intending it, I may have caused you. I pardon all my enemies the evils that they have done me. I bid farewell to my aunts and to all my brothers and sisters. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.
Farewell, my good and tender sister. May this letter reach you. Think always of me; I embrace you with all my heart, as I do my poor dear children. My God, how heart-rending it is to leave them forever! Farewell! Farewell! I must now occupy myself with my spiritual duties, as I am not free in my actions. Perhaps they will bring me a priest; but I here protest that I will not say a word to him, but that I will treat him as a total stranger
The full article including the original French transcript of the letter as well as images of the original letter:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/07/think-always-of-me.html
____________________
Source: Tea at Trianon
http://teaattrianon.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/last-letter-of-marie-antoinette.html
Image: Portrait of Marie Antoinette at age 12, Martin Van Meytens, 1767.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
A last letter from Marie Antoinette - capturing the innocence and sweetness of her soul.
In the early hours of October 16th, 1793, nine months after the execution of her husband, Louis XVI, the 37-year-old former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, wrote the following tear-stained farewell letter to her sister-in-law, Madame Elisabeth, and her children. Just eight hours later, Marie Antoinette was beheaded.
Her letter never reached Elisabeth.
English translation of her letter:
16th October, 4.30 A.M.
It is to you, my sister, that I write for the last time. I have just been condemned, not to a shameful death, for such is only for criminals, but to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent like him, I hope to show the same firmness in my last moments. I am calm, as one is when one's conscience reproaches one with nothing. I feel profound sorrow in leaving my poor children: you know that I only lived for them and for you, my good and tender sister. You who out of love have sacrificed everything to be with us, in what a position do I leave you! I have learned from the proceedings at my trial that my daughter was separated from you. Alas! poor child; I do not venture to write to her; she would not receive my letter. I do not even know whether this will reach you. Do you receive my blessing for both of them. I hope that one day when they are older they may be able to rejoin you, and to enjoy to the full your tender care. Let them both think of the lesson which I have never ceased to impress upon them, that the principles and the exact performance of their duties are the chief foundation of life; and then mutual affection and confidence in one another will constitute its happiness. Let my daughter feel that at her age she ought always to aid her brother by the advice which her greater experience and her affection may inspire her to give him. And let my son in his turn render to his sister all the care and all the services which affection can inspire. Let them, in short, both feel that, in whatever positions they may be placed, they will never be truly happy but through their union. Let them follow our example. In our own misfortunes how much comfort has our affection for one another afforded us! And, in times of happiness, we have enjoyed that doubly from being able to share it with a friend; and where can one find friends more tender and more united than in one's own family? Let my son never forget the last words of his father, which I repeat emphatically; let him never seek to avenge our deaths.
I have to speak to you of one thing which is very painful to my heart, I know how much pain the child must have caused you. Forgive him, my dear sister; think of his age, and how easy it is to make a child say whatever one wishes, especially when he does not understand it. It will come to pass one day, I hope, that he will better feel the value of your kindness and of your tender affection for both of them. It remains to confide to you my last thoughts. I should have wished to write them at the beginning of my trial; but, besides that they did not leave me any means of writing, events have passed so rapidly that I really have not had time.
I die in the Catholic Apostolic and Roman religion, that of my fathers, that in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed. Having no spiritual consolation to look for, not even knowing whether there are still in this place any priests of that religion (and indeed the place where I am would expose them to too much danger if they were to enter it but once), I sincerely implore pardon of God for all the faults which I may have committed during my life. I trust that, in His goodness, He will mercifully accept my last prayers, as well as those which I have for a long time addressed to Him, to receive my soul into His mercy. I beg pardon of all whom I know, and especially of you, my sister, for all the vexations which, without intending it, I may have caused you. I pardon all my enemies the evils that they have done me. I bid farewell to my aunts and to all my brothers and sisters. I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.
Farewell, my good and tender sister. May this letter reach you. Think always of me; I embrace you with all my heart, as I do my poor dear children. My God, how heart-rending it is to leave them forever! Farewell! Farewell! I must now occupy myself with my spiritual duties, as I am not free in my actions. Perhaps they will bring me a priest; but I here protest that I will not say a word to him, but that I will treat him as a total stranger
The full article including the original French transcript of the letter as well as images of the original letter:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/07/think-always-of-me.html
____________________
Source: Tea at Trianon
http://teaattrianon.blogspot.co.uk/2007/05/last-letter-of-marie-antoinette.html
Image: Portrait of Marie Antoinette at age 12, Martin Van Meytens, 1767.
Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Just for enjoyment
Just for the beauty of it all
I would like to go to everyone of theese places and they are breathtaking
Kings bedroom
Kings bedroom
Fikri M
29/12/2011 - Offentlig
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Right : King bedroom Louis XIV, chateau du Versaille, France
which you prefer?
Right : King bedroom Louis XIV, chateau du Versaille, France
which you prefer?
Correspondance secrète inédite sur Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, la Cour et ...
and the Queen dared after sunset the King come in this orgy and stay until five o'clock in the morning that her husband s saw the morning when she came into his room to wish him good morning that she had not slept and n the fort had pushed hard
A royal window Maurice Loy
Versailles Castle
View from the King's bedroom, on the gardens
A royal window Maurice Loy
Versailles Castle
View from the King's bedroom, on the gardens
tirsdag den 18. september 2012
søndag den 16. september 2012
The Search
There were rumours concerning a standard containing clues to the site that had been removed by the Soviets from a Buddhist monastery in 1937, and rumours concerning a curse leading to the death of two French archaeologists (comparable to the curse of the tomb of Tamerlane, Gur-e Amir).
On October 6, 2004, "Genghis Khan's palace" was allegedly discovered, and that may make it possible to find his burial site.[2]
Amateur archaeologist Maury Kravitz has dedicated 40 years to the search of the tomb. In a 15th-century account of a French Jesuit, he found a reference to an early battle where Genghis Khan, at the time still known as Temüjin, won a decisive victory. According to this source, he selected the confluence of theKherlen and "Bruchi" rivers, with Burkhan Khaldun over his right shoulder, and after his victory, Temüjin said that this place would be forever his favourite. Kravitz, convinced that Temüjin's grave would be near that battlefield attempted to find the "Bruchi" river, which turned out to be unknown to cartographers. He did, however, discover a toponym "Baruun Bruch" ("West Bruch") in the area in question, and as of 2006 is conducting excavations there, roughly 100 km east of the Burkhan Khaldun (48°N 110°E, the wider area of Bayanbulag).
Picture for Khan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Genghis_Khan
Genghis Khan asked to be buried without markings. After he died, his body was returned to Mongolia and presumably to his birthplace in the Khentii Aimag, where many assume he is buried somewhere close to the Onon River. According to legend, the funeral escort killed anyone and anything across their path, to conceal where he was finally buried.[citation needed] After the tomb was completed, the slaves who built it were massacred, and then the soldiers who killed them were also killed.[1] The Genghis Khan Mausoleum is his memorial, but not his burial site. Folklore says that a river was diverted over his grave to make it impossible to find (echoing the manner of burial of the Sumerian King Gilgamesh of Uruk).[1] Other tales state that his grave was stampeded over by many horses, that trees were then planted over the site, and the permafrost also played its part in the hiding of the burial site.[1] The Erdeni Tobchi (1662) claims that Genghis Khan's coffin may have been empty when it arrived in Mongolia. Similarly, the Altan Tobchi (1604) maintains that only his shirt, tent and boots were buried in the Ordos (Ratchnevsky, p. 143f.). Tumbull (2003, p. 24) tells another legend in which the grave was re-discovered 30 years after Genghis Khan's death. According to this tale, a young camel was buried with the Khan, and the camel's mother was later found weeping at the grave of its young.
LLI River
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On his way home after the conquest of the Khwarizmian Empire, Genghis Khan performed a ceremony on his grandsons Mongke and Kublai after their first hunt in 1224 near the Ili Rive
Begining of Kublai Khan and Ghengis Khan
http://hjertebager.wix.com/thehistorictraveler#!home/mainPage
You can get at idea of the proces in making a "On the trail" project on the above link, as I have started the Kublai and Ghengis trail.
You can get at idea of the proces in making a "On the trail" project on the above link, as I have started the Kublai and Ghengis trail.
fredag den 14. september 2012
Kublin Khan
Kublin Khans wife
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