Posts tagged marie antoinette

ladyprincessgirl40 asked you:

Do you think monarchy should come back in France ?

Should? Nope. If by some millimeter slim chance people in France randomly decided that they wanted a monarchy, then all right. Otherwise, nah. (Aka ‘no I do not advocate any Frenchmen taking up the white flag and raising an army of historical bloggers to try to take back the throne of France.’)

Anonymous asked you:

have you read a lot of books about marie antoinette? you should post some of your favorite quotes from books about her!

Not as many as I’d like! I’m beyond on my Marie Antoinette reading… I do post quotes now and then, though! :) They’ll be under ‘books’ or ‘quotes.’ Or sometimes both!

Anonymous asked you:

What is the second set of gifs from in the last gif set you posted?

La Revolution Francaise.

makeeverydayahappyday asked you:

haha omg Historical Telephone would be a hilarious game :’)

Ia! One of these days we should all play it for fun.

Anonymous asked you:

Hello! Seeing your photo of the Marie Antoinette busts reminded me of the MA exhibition I saw at the Grand Palais, there was a group of busts together (like in that photo) but I vaguely remember there being a notice saying that there was one in particular that was agreed by most people to resemble the queen the most, although my problem now is that I can’t remember which one! Just wondering if you ever heard anything similar or perhaps one of your readers was at the exhibition and remembers?

Hmm! Unfortunately I don’t have a Grand Palais exhibition book anymore, otherwise it might be in there. I know the Boizot busts, one of which is currently on display at the Louvre, are considered very fine. But I’m not sure if they’re considered the most accurate…

mmeroyale asked you:

hey dear! do you happen to have the link to the trailer of ” Versailles, another visit”?

Here you go! http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/cultures/p-24817-Versailles.htm

mmeroyale asked you:

also what’s your opinion on Stefan Zweig’s book? I’m just getting through it now and I’m not sure how I like it. So far just seems like he has a lot of pre-conceptions about her personality and her actions, i don’t know…

To my shame, I haven’t read the Zweig book straight through yet, as lately I’ve been reading my history books in pieces (early chapter here, later chapter there, etc). I don’t know. I do appreciate that Zweig tried to look at her life through a more human perspective, but I don’t like how he essentially applied a Freudian-style theory to everything she did. “She gambled and didn’t want to be bored because her love life wasn’t satisfactory!” Well, what about all the courtiers who were having ample love lives but participated in the same exact activities? Etc. It would be one thing if it was limited solely to Zweig’s biography, but Zweig essentially launched the earlier modern “Marie Antoinette” historiography and so many books and fictional portrayals—and even biographical studies, like Fraser’s—have so much of a basis on his theories, which I don’t always find satisfactory.

Anonymous asked you:

hello! how is Antoinette’s biography by Zweig? I stumbled upon it this weekend and I am regretting not picking it up, is it good?

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