EarlGreyTea-Hawt
EarlGreyTea-Hawt t1_izmhanc wrote
Reply to “Being Madame is a miserable job” Liselotte of the Palatinate lived at the court of the French king Louis XIV and wrote countless letters that offer a unique insight into the intrigues and everyday life of the nobility. by swissnationalmuseum
Can anyone recommend some good history books (no historical fiction please unless it's ridiculously amazing, I'm not a lover of romance writing and his-fic tends to be lousy with it) on Liselotte in particular or something about the court at the time that includes a sizable section about her?
EarlGreyTea-Hawt t1_izmfics wrote
Reply to comment by gggggrrrrrrrrr in “Being Madame is a miserable job” Liselotte of the Palatinate lived at the court of the French king Louis XIV and wrote countless letters that offer a unique insight into the intrigues and everyday life of the nobility. by swissnationalmuseum
Tbh, it bothered me to no end how skinny all the women were in a historical drama about one of the fatest, by choice even, courts in history.
EarlGreyTea-Hawt t1_izme7gx wrote
Reply to comment by letssnark in “Being Madame is a miserable job” Liselotte of the Palatinate lived at the court of the French king Louis XIV and wrote countless letters that offer a unique insight into the intrigues and everyday life of the nobility. by swissnationalmuseum
The fact that she thought her letters would be destroyed makes them so personal. She out wrote in correspondence the famously prolific Montesquieu...but she wasn't writing in his highly stylized manner meant for posterity, so it's really revealing about the quotidian life of nobles of the court.
EarlGreyTea-Hawt t1_izmdavh wrote
Reply to comment by Danivelle in “Being Madame is a miserable job” Liselotte of the Palatinate lived at the court of the French king Louis XIV and wrote countless letters that offer a unique insight into the intrigues and everyday life of the nobility. by swissnationalmuseum
He was such an ass to Henriette. But a lot of people were. The French court was just awful, it chewed up some of the best women of the nobility (and men, but I'm deep diving into Catherine Medici, so I'm feeling salty about the Medici women in France).
EarlGreyTea-Hawt t1_ixf20xm wrote
Reply to comment by TopAbies9056 in TIL that Evelyn Nesbit, dubbed "the world's first supermodel" became known for her involvement in a feud between her husband Harry Thaw and architect Stanford White who drugged and assaulted her age of 16, this led to Thaw murdering White inside Madison Square Garden in 1906. by TopAbies9056
He shot him from the front, 2 bullets in the face not the back of the head. It was Stanford's rape apologist son who spread the common misconception that White shot him in the back in order to paint him with the brush of cowardice. But nope, he walked up to him said "you ruined my wife" and shot him in the face and shoulder, likely killing him instantly.
EarlGreyTea-Hawt t1_iwnqynf wrote
Reply to comment by EvilCalvin in Hundreds of mummies and pyramid of an unknown queen unearthed near King Tut's tomb by IslandChillin
Giza could be reasonably considered a stone's throw from where this site is located, but neither Giza nor this site is a stone's throw away from the Valley of the Kings (e.g. where Tut is), unless ppl are want to throw stones many, many miles. How unnecessarily confusing that is...
EarlGreyTea-Hawt t1_j9fjrua wrote
Reply to comment by AnnihilationOrchid in PsBattle: Animal control officer holding a Sloth that got lost. by J_Rath_905
He posted a pic of the sloth napping in his grandpa's personal gym on Awwww, the pic here is his update photo he put in the comments after he called the environmental police to place the little fellow in a green reserve. All and all a very cute post with some interesting info on the environmental police in the threads.