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A pastel portrait of George, Prince of Wales (later King George III) by Jean-Étienne Liotard. 1754.

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Chateau de Fontainebleau, Grand Salon Of Anne Of Austria.

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Miniature of Marie Antoinette [source: ebay]

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Turn: Washington’s Spies, s01e10

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Attributed to Bartolomé González

Portraits of Philip IV of Spain, when Prince of Asturias, and Élisabeth of France; c. 1616

Castillo Hotel Son Vida collection, Mallorca

When Élisabeth was ten years old, in 1612, negotiations were begun for a double marriage between the royal families of France and Spain; Élisabeth would marry the Prince of Asturias (the future Philip IV of Spain) and her brother Louis (later King Louis XIII of France) the Spanish Infanta Anne.

After their proxy marriages, Élisabeth and her brother met their respective spouses for the first time on 25 November 1615 on the Pheasant Island in the river Bidassoa that divides France and Spain between the French city of Hendaye and the Spanish city of Fuenterrabía. The religious ceremony took place in the Saint Mary Cathedral in Burgos. At the time of her marriage, the thirteen-year-old Isabel became the new Princess of Asturias; her husband Philip was aged ten. This marriage followed a tradition of cementing military and political alliances between the Catholic powers of France and Spain with royal marriages. (Source)

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Turn: Washington’s Spies, s01e01

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Bartolomé González y Serrano

Portrait of Élisabeth of France, Queen of Spain; 1626

Museo Civico “Ala Ponzone”, Cremona, Italy (+)

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Marie Antoinette (2006)

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→ This princess, as virtuous as she was amiable, whom monsters later on accused of having never loved her husband, was absolutely in despair. As soon as she heard the King’s carriage entering the Cour Royale she ran towards him holding the Dauphin in her arms, then breathless and almost fainting she fell into those of the King who was no less moved than she was. Holding out one hand to his children who covered it with kisses, with the other wiping the tears from the eyes of Marie-Antoinette and Madame Elisabeth, Louis XVI smiled again…he kept on repeating: “Happily no blood was shed, and I swear that not a drop of French blood will ever be shed on my orders.”

~ Histoire de la Revolution Francaise (3 vol.) by M.H. Lemaire, 1816

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Burn Gorman returns as Edmund Hewlett in Turn season 4

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On June 8th, 1795, Louis Charles de France, the second son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, died while imprisoned in the Paris Temple. Louis Charles had been kept separated from his family for two years and suffered from ill health which was exacerbated by periods of severe neglect and both mental and physical abuse.

Twenty years after his death, the man who conducted an autopsy on his body would write that he believed the boy’s death was due to “the terrible treatment, body and soul, that the infant had endured for so long.” He was only 10 years old.

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The Royal Palace of Caserta was begun in 1754 by the French Bourbon Kings of Naples as a country escape just a few miles outside of the congested city. It is the largest of the many palaces inspired by the great Chateau of Versailles that were built all over Europe by monarchs that wanted to recapture the expression of absolute power and influence that Louis XIV and his heirs commanded from Versailles. From St Petersburg to Madrid dozens of such copies were built in Baroque splendor with varying degrees of success, many falling short due to thier creators emphasis on size and to be larger than the original. Caserta is massive in every measure except warmth, charm or comfort. The enormous scale of the state rooms is the same as its private chambers and its gardens. All the unnecessary space left me with a feeling of emptiness and waste when I visited last year. The monumental Grand Staircase was worth the visit however and is one of the most beautiful creations of architectural majesty I had ever stood upon. It is impossible to not to be impressed standing in this regal staircase, a true masterpiece of Baroque Architecture. Adding to the sadness of the palace was the fact that most of the building is unfinished, unused and falling into ruin perhaps due to the lack of tourists but more likely due to the financial burden of keeping up the colossal edifice even by the modern republican government of Italy absent a monarch and purpose.

Vive-la-france!!🇫🇷

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Louis Joseph Xavier Francois de France, the second child and first son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, died on June 4th, 1789 due to complications from tuberculosis. He was seven years old.