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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.
søndag den 23. september 2012
fredag den 21. september 2012
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
Kings bedroom
Kings bedroom
Fikri M
29/12/2011 - Offentlig
Link : “Baldacchino Supreme“ , the world most expensive bed designed by Stuart Hughes, cost about $ USD 6,3 million. More info : http://www.odditycentral.com/news/worlds-most-expensive-bed-costs-6-3-million.html
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
torsdag den 13. september 2012
onsdag den 12. september 2012
Up - date on The Book
The Historic Traveler on the Trail of the lost Treasure of Marie – Antoinette and Louis XVI
Chapter one: Louis XVI
Birth
Page 1: The actual birth
Page 2: The Parents(Picture)
Page 3: Appearance
Page 4: Baptisme – Name
Childhood
Page 1: Wetnurse
Page 2: Brothers – Sisters (older brother + Elizabeth)
Page 3: Parents and Louis XV
Page 4: Education – Religion
Page 5: Sparetime
Page 6: Deaths of his parents.
Teenager
Page 1: Marriage to Marie-antoinette
Page 2: Wedding ceramony
Page 3: Louis XV interest in Marie- Antionette
Page 4: Versailles
Page 5: Living seperate lives
Page 6: appearance
King of France
Page 1: Coronation at Reims
Page 2: Journal
Page 3: Marriage and Children
Page 4: Cherbourg
Page 5: Political rule
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