For #TeamPhilippe: ✨ “What happens on the seventeenth?” I asked, making note of that date, too. ✨ “It is Saturnalia, madame, ” Pierre said, “the celebration dedicated to the god of the harvest. Sieur Philippe still observes the old ways.” ✨ “Ancient” would be more accurate. Saturnalia hadn’t been practiced since the last days of the Roman Empire. ✨ Read about Saturnalia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia. ✨ Painting: The King Drinks (between 1634 and 1640) by David Teniers the Younger, showing a Twelfth Nightcelebration with a "Lord of Misrule" at the Prado Gallery of Art. ✨ #AllSouls #AllSoulsTrilogy #DeborahHarkness #ADiscoveryofWitches #ShadowOfNight #TheBookOfLife #DianaBishop #MatthewClairmont #Fantasy #Books #PhilippeDeClermont https://www.instagram.com/p/BrfRMQMHg62/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4yrv0hfaofr