InfernalSoiree

"I've been meaning to get into writing" French Revolution and Date Everything Do people do carrds here?! -> infernalsoiree.carrd.co

[98chao]

deltarune chapter 5 spoilers

this is actually so stupid im sorry

[infernalsoiree]

LOVE WINS

[thefairyfellermasterstroke]

Louis XVI was such a bad ruler, it's actually laughable.

You open up the parliaments. You close them up again.

You change minister of finances 5 times before summoning the estate general.

You say the third estate will be doubled, but refuse to explain how they will vote (everyone wants to know how the hell they will vote... I mean that's like the point of having an Estates General)

You ask the Estates to send cahiers de doléances where the third estate is agreed on their wish to vote along with the other two estates. But you STILL do not explain how they will vote.

When the third estate refuses to register their rapresentatives and the Estates Generals stays still for a LITERAL MONTH you do NOTHING

You summon the rapresentatives only after they created a National Assembly - only to declare said National Assembly doesn't exist.

My man, my guy. It's literally there. If you just had explained things earlier it probably wouldn't exist. But it definitely does now.

AND ONLY THEN, AFTER THE THIRD ESTATE LITERALLY PROCLAIMED ITSELF TO BE THE NATION, you say they will not be able to vote with the first and second estate.

And then you act all surprised no one listens to you.

[infernalsoiree]

do you think they've explored each other's bodies

[randomlyfor]

rose of versailles doodles~

[thewolfmanspecifically1941]

If Drawlight was a Y2K popstar his tabloid name would be Powder Princess. May or may not be because of the arsenic he still insists on putting on his face. Also all of his songs are plagiarised

[scourgiez]

Louis XVI truly the type of monarch to get himself in these situations

[in-my-fop-era]

louis compilation (art by riyoko ikeda)

[thejestersmelody]

~ Christopher Drawlight ~ There were many little feminine touches about him that he had contrived for himself, but his eyes and eyelashes were the only ones which nature had given him. -jonathan strange and mr norrell

[infernalsoiree]

Do you think piranesi stinks good

[louis--xvi]

i’ve got a good feeling about today

[aramistinguette]

High School/Louis Le Grand era robesmoulins

[uttanostra]

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[infernalsoiree]

Rip George Orwell you would’ve loved bimbofication

[infernalsoiree]

someone convince me not to dnf the three musketeers what is the Point of this book

[bunniesandbeheadings]

I thought this was a cute panel from Marie-Antoinette: The Phantom Queen by Rodolphe and Anne Goetzinger

Imagine just trying to shoo a vagabond from Versailles and confronting the king

[sacredheartorcockade]

Quiz IV: The Answer is Finally Revealed

And now, without further ado... The answer is…

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Answer C : Louis XVI

Yes, the contemporaries of Louis XVI, even those who supported him, did not hesitate to describe their king in unflattering terms. This is particularly true of Madame de La Tour du Pin. Madame de La Tour du Pin—Henriette-Lucy Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin and Countess of Gouvernet—saw the king with her own eyes and recorded her testimony in the memoirs from which the quiz excerpt is drawn, Journal d’une femme de cinquante ans.[1]

The countess was present at Versailles during the opening of the Estates General of 1789. On Tuesday, 5 May 1789, in the great hall of the Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs at Versailles, Madame de La Tour du Pin watched the king ascend to his throne, “set upon a dais covered in purple velvet strewn with golden fleurs-de-lis, backed by a paneled backdrop and surmounted by a canopy of the same fabric.”[2] The royal elevation created a striking contrast with the dark mass of deputies from the Third Estate.

Hardly had the king arrived when the entire assembly of Third Estate deputies rose to greet him with applause. It was the first time many of them had ever seen their sovereign. Were they surprised by his appearance? For it is at this moment that the countess reports, in her memoirs, the manner “in which he waddled,” his lack of “dignity in his bearing,” his “abrupt and awkward movements,” and his “extremely poor eyesight […] which made him grimace.”[1]

The awkwardness of the scene was heightened by an unexpected gesture just before he began his speech: for reasons unknown, the king rose and clumsily replaced his hat. The queen, Marie-Antoinette, naturally rose as well. This added further embarrassment, as the king motioned for her to sit, which she refused with a formal curtsy.

Despite these awkward preliminaries, the delivery of the speech proceeded smoothly. According to the American statesman Gouverneur Morris, who was also present, the address was repeatedly interrupted by “warm and infectious applause.”[3] This eyewitness testimony illustrates an important point about Louis XVI’s public image at the dawn of the Revolution: even in highly ceremonial settings intended to project royal authority, his natural awkwardness, poor eyesight, and lack of physical poise undermined the impression of majesty that the court hoped to convey. For many contemporary observers, including those not hostile to the monarchy, these physical traits became symbolic of a broader perception of a monarch ill at ease with the role he was expected to embody—an image that would profoundly influence how his reign and downfall were later remembered.

Footnotes

[1] Madame de La Tour du Pin, Journal d’une femme de cinquante ans, p. 180.

[2] Alexandre Maral, Les derniers jours de Versailles, p. 95. [3] Gouverneur Morris, Journal de Gouverneur Morris, ministre plénipotentiaire des États-Unis en France, p. 27.

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