I tried to figure out who that rando was. I found this document describing the different people, though even after reading, it's not very obvious where each person is placed. I'm pretty sure it's meant to be François-Henri de Montmorency.
I think the resemblence is kind of there? He's the most likely one out of all the people mentionned. Still doesn't explain why he was between the brothers though!
I also read that the Dauphin was there, but that he was painted slimmer than usual and with a brown wig, so he is not very recognizable if you compare with his individual portraits :
"Le peintre a représenté un jeune homme mince et brun, alors que déjà à l’âge de 36 ans d’autres peintres le représentent avec une perruque de cheveux gris et un peu plus enrobé."
So I think the portrait is like this (excuse my mouse writing) :
Watching Liselotte von der Pfalz (1966) in german with a russian dub over it, neither of which I understand. Good thing I have these subtitles to help me.
Philippe really did leave a positive impression to everyone who had to deal with him during this campaign, but truth be told it’s only during the later ones that he really got to dive into the action (including the cavalry charge depicted here!). For now, while his zeal and desire to please were evident, he had to be kept away from anything important, as ordered by Louis XIV… who wanted his own son to play the bigger role, of course.
The two gifts offered to Dubois here are real, but it’s entirely possible that he got them for a different reason! In 1691, Philippe de Chartres’ marriage with one of Louis’ daughters is still fairly recent, and while we don’t have any hard proof of it, it’s very, very, very plausible that Dubois was asked to convince the king’s nephew to agree to it. The Saint-Honoré canonry briefly mentioned here won’t remain on the list of Dubois’ honors for very long though, for reasons that will later be explained…
S’il est vrai que Philippe fit des débuts prometteurs et se montra très zélé durant cette campagne, en vérité c’est plutôt durant les suivantes qu’il put vraiment montrer de quoi il était capable (et mena la charge avec la cavalerie!). Pour celle-ci, on dût surtout tenir à l’oeil, puisqu’il avait été demandé par Louis XIV que son neveu soit gardé loin de l’action… Le beau rôle devait, après tout, être pour le duc du Maine.
Les deux récompenses offertes à Dubois ici lui ont bel et bien été données, mais à vrai dire c’est tout à fait possible qu’il les ait plutôt reçues pour une tout autre raison! En 1691, le mariage de Philippe de Chartres est encore très récent, et si on n’a pas de preuve définitive que Dubois ait reçu l’ordre de convaincre son élève de s’y plier, c’est très, très, très probable. Le canonicat de Saint-Honoré dont il est question ici ne restera toutefois pas sur la liste des honneurs accordés à Dubois bien longtemps, pour des raisons dont on reparlera…
studying history is like. here's to another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be. thank you women who fight for abortion and contraception and independance from men for another beautiful day of not being pregnant and of having no obligation to ever be
EXACTLY! I am particularly interested in dynastic / genealogical history, and that means to see how many children women had and how old the women died. Sometimes, when I see that a woman died from her teens to her early forties, or married too young, I am “please, don’t die in childbirth”. Most of the time, that’s exactly what happened. Just look up Anna of Bohemia and Hungary (wife of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand I), or Claude of France, or Joanna of Austria (Grand Duchess of Tuscany). Sometimes you get whole sagas of mothers and daughters dying the same way, it’s heartbreaking. Even in the 19th and early 20th century you can find that women died in childbirth or due to childbirth related causes, not to mention the ones whose health was forever compromised due to the constant state of childbearing and recovery and conception.
A little comic based on an anecdote by my dearly hated Cosnac, LOL. More below the cut, ainsi que la version française, comme d'hab.
This one is based on Cosnac's amazing, incredible memoirs, that are a delightful read not only for the awesome anecdotes it gives us, and also because of how unhinged and delusional this guy was. For the reminder, Cosnac was Philippe's almoner during the 1660's, but was far more interested in the crazy intrigues of his court than he was in his religious duties. By his own admission, he initially didn't want to be in Philippe's service because he thought he was a useless jackass (paraphrasing but you know) until he heard about Philippe throwing a bowl of mash at Louis which prompted him to think that "there was still some hope (=virility) in him" and thus accept the job.
Later on, not only did he attribute most of the credit of the few of Philippe's actions he approved to himself, he also kept calling him a dumbass and criticizing him while, sorry for the crude language, gargling on Louis' balls and making shit up to stir the pot of the Orleans Wars even harder. Amazing guy, really, LOL (but funny as hell).
This specific anecdote, from page 305-306-307 of Cosnac's memoirs, relates how he tried to instill some "good" in Philippe and teach him how to properly submit to the king and come back in his good graces (after some fight they had), only for Philippe to interrupt him between 10 to 12 times and even leave several times over the course of 30 minutes "for inane bullshit" according to Cosnac.
I said all these things in much of a hurry, as Monsieur left about ten to twelve times in about half an hour to give way to inane stupidities. I was still keeping hopes that he would think about his conduct more seriously than he had in the past. What convinced me is that, by the end of each conversation, he asked me to deepen the subject with him again next time. I also thought that I should write all of these to him, so he could better commit them to memory.
I'm gonna paraphrase the next part, as Cosnac is pointlessly verbose, but it is funny:
I had the letter sent to him by M. Meril, elaborating on how he was to behave with the king's ministers. I wrote as a very zealous, very devoted subject. [...] He later replied (something along the lines of) "I was very happy to receive your letter, I know they come from a good place and out of appreciation for me and my reputation. It aligns with my intentions, and should it not, I know it still comes from a good place. I would tell you about my progress [in his relationship with the king] but then I should say nothing at all, as I have committed to laying low for a while, as I said I would. I give you my deepest thanks and compliments, I genuinely appreciate you, and hope you can continue appreciating me and my honor."
Then, I regretted sending him this letter and speaking so freely, because who knows to what purpose it could have been used [against him] for? But as it was a done deed, I decided to turn this into a merit and told Monsieur I was happy he kept my letter. He told me that he found the letters really useful and didn't suspect it had any ulterior motive. I told him that I never thought this letter could ever desserve me.
Cosnac you crazy bastard
Anyway--of course, the funny part in all this, aside from Cosnac constantly flip-flopping, is Philippe's disastrous attention span, at least when he isn't really interested in the subject. Given said subject, it's not very surprising (and I'm sorry but, well deserved, Cosnac). Unfortunately, that anecdote, among many others, has been used by many historians to once again discredit Philippe's intellect and seriousness (or lackthereof). Lately, I've been really baffled to witness how comfortable many of these historians and writers were with openly shitting on Philippe's alleged lousiness and alleged stupidity, a lot of which stems from misogyny as, according to them, whatever is of Philippe's interest is "futile and uninteresting", as opposed to latin philosophy and politics. It makes me want to try and highlight all the ways Philippe manages to shine in what interests him, as I have admittedly focused on his siller sides a lot since I find them very endearing.
Anyway, that's it for today, suck it Cosnac I still hate your ass even if you make me laugh 🫵🫵🫵🫵
May I request a Louis XIV? 🥺 Or his brother Monsieur since he is so cute
🌞 He says hello!!!
Monsieur will get his own post when I have a little bit more time,, I was going to squeeze them in together but he deserves his own illustration 🙂↕️ so do wait for thatt,, thank you so much for the request!!
"The Best they Could do", a (not so) little comic about Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine, set during his childhood, more specifically in 1650 at the Palais-Royal. All remaining 24 pages below the cut, as well as a little word.
VERSION FRANCAISE ICI.
Thank you so much for reading!
This comic is based primarily on my imagination, so please don't take this scene as a potential anecdote 🙏 However, it is inspired by three different things:
first, Joan Pieragnoli's descriptions of Chev's childhood, especially the way he had to grow up far away from his brothers and sister; first seeing his eldest siblings go, then not being allowed, due to their parents' financial limitations, to follow his brother to school and having to instead turn to the army.
secondly, an anecdote brought up by Jonathan Sprangler in his paper about the Monsieurs, where he notes that we have records of Chev and his brother playing in the Seine with Philippe, Louis and the others during their stay in Palais-Royal in 1650.
and finally, an unrelated anecdote that I've already made a little comic about (here) about how at some point, Philippe actually didn't want Chev to "join their family" by becoming a prince of France through a specific treaty. Joan Pieragnoli notes on how ironic it is, given how later Philippe dedicated his life to making Chev part of his family, and I guess it inspired me to sort of tell a sort of mirror to that story.
Regardless, my main interest was of course to explore little Chev's feelings towards his situation, and how he, as a 7 year old, had to deal with seeing his sister and brother go, and being told by his dad that he couldn't be afforded the same investment his brother was.
"Le mieux qu'ils puissent faire", un (soi-disant) petit comic sur Philippe de Lorraine, situé au Palais-Royal en 1650 ! Les 24 pages suivantes sous la coupure, ainsi que des explications à suivre.
ENGLISH VERSION HERE.
Un grand merci d'avoir lu!
Cette BD est essentiellement basée sur mon imagination, donc rien de véridique ou historique ici 🙏 Cependant, trois réelles anecdotes/faits m'ont inspiré pour l'écriture:
d'abord, les descriptions que fait Joan Pieragnoli de l'enfance de Chev, en particulier le fait qu'il ait grandi loin de ses frères et soeur, ayant d'abord du voir partir les aînés, puis n'ayant pas été autorisé, pour cause de précarité financière, à suivre les traces de son frère au collège, envoyé à l'armée à la place.
Deuxièmement, une anecdote mentionnée par Jonathan Sprangler dans son papier sur les Monsieurs, où il note que du temps passé au Palais-Royal en 1650, Chev et son grand frère aimaient aller se baigner et jouer dans la Seine avec Philippe, Louis et d'autres enfants.
Et enfin, une anecdote qui n'est pas directement liée, et basé sur laquelle j'ai déjà réaliser une petite BD (ici); le fait que Philippe ne voulait pas que Chev "rejoignent leur famille" en tant que prince de France suite à un traité. Joan Pieragnoli note l'ironie dans le fait qu'au final, Philippe aura dédié la majorité de sa vie à faire en sorte que Chev fasse partie de sa famille, et cela m'a inspiré de raconter une sorte de miroir à cette histoire.
De toute manière, mon intérêt principal était d'explorer les émotions du petit Chev vis-à-vis de sa situation et comment, du haut de ses 7 ans, il a du voir son frère et sa soeur s'en aller, et s'entendre dire qu'il ne pourrait bénéficier du même investissement que son frère.
The fact that it goes into to photos is crazy, i have a ton of unposted saved art in there. AI is a big company issued virus and you can't convince me otherwise
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