Is this the darkness or the dawn?

the most happy (mostly), history and literature lover

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Kathleen Martyn by Adolph de Meyer, 1921

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Pink Silk Moire Evening Dress

early 1860s

Fashion Museum Bath

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Jeremy Brett in My Fair Lady (1964) dir. George Cukor

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we forever reblog this pretty boy

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how it feels to go to the library without a specific book in mind and to leave with a stack of books you’re excited about in your arms just like you did as a little kid

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A Christian Dior London black/purple shot taffeta cocktail dress

c. 1954

Kerry Taylor Auctions

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Water Lilies painted by Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)

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The rituals...

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Quiberon, Bretagne, France

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Reims

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Romy Schneider on the set of The Cardinal (1963)

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Sara Mrad | Ribbon Reverie

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Victoria Gown by Sara Mrad

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Rodarte Fall 2020

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Zuhair Murad

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MODERN LOUIS & ANTOINETTE: une histoire d'amour Although they had never been lovers in the romantic sense, Marie Antoinette loved Louis most sincerely - Louis, the shy, awkward boy that she had first met at Compiègne twenty-three years ago; Louis, the boy who had once stood in her courtyard as she leaned out of her bedroom window like Juliet to his unlikely Romeo. The thought of carrying on without him was completely devastating. After his death, Marie Thérèse remarked that her mother fell into a ‘near-catatonic state’, refusing to eat or leave her room, getting barely any sleep and sitting in total silence for hours on end. Life had lost all meaning for the beleaguered former Queen. - Marie Antoinette: An Intimate History, Melanie Clegg